On Wed Feb22'23 08:00:55AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote: > From: stan via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:00:55 -0700 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: stan <upaitag@xxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: how to create a Fedora 37 LiveCD without a desktop environment > and with window manager > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:56:13 -0600 > Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have been trying to build a LiveCD with a DE and with a window > > manager. Specifically, I was thinking that I could have startx go > > into starting the window manager. However, I can not quite figure out > > how to handle this. Does anyone have experience with doing this? > > > > The notes available on LiveCD at > > https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools only discuss a minimal > > LiveCD or a full-fledged one, and indeed the minimal configuration > > there does not even do anything (I only get Troubleshoot). But in any > > case, that is not the point. > > > > Any suggestions on how I can use startx instead of a login display > > manager? > > There is no login display manager. The minimal server install, the > smaller one, boots into multiuser (the old runlevel 3). From there it > is possible to run a script to start X. My system boots to multiuser > on boot. I then run the following to start LXDE, after logging into a > virtual console, usually vt1. > > echo 'exec startlxde' >> $XCLIENTS > sleep 3 > startx -- vt10 > > This starts LXDE on virtual terminal 10, leaving the output of X on > virtual terminal 1, where I usually first login. > > There are similar commands for the other desktops. I have them all in > a script, sort of a manual greeter. When I log out of X I return to the > virtual console I started X from. > > Since KDE and Gnome are now pretty much wayland only, I'm not sure how > well the script works for them. I suppose I should run through and > test everything, as invocations sometimes change, especially at branch > time for a new fedora version. The way to determine the actual command > that is being run to start the various desktops is to download the > source for one of the actual graphical greeters (login managers), and > check how it invokes the desktop. > Thank you very much for this! I was able to get it to work with slim (local rpm that i have for myself) and realized that some package sets now need to be explicitly included, and that was my error. Btw, where is the minimal server install available? Thanks again! Best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
