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MATE/LXDE ISO

Hello,

I installed MATE/LXDE ISO , removed MATE , installed Openbox and configured all the needed settings for openbox but neither lightdm options nor sddm options show Openbox , it only shows LXDE to be able to login to. What am I missing to do here?

Re: MATE/LXDE ISO

Reply #1 –
Login Managers (sddm, lightdm) get their list of available desktop environments from .desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions/.  There should be .desktop files for lxde and openbox. 

I havent installed openbox in Artix.  But in other distros, the openbox package installs its desktop file into  /usr/share/xsessions/.

Re: MATE/LXDE ISO

Reply #2 –
Quote from: saleem – on
I installed MATE/LXDE ISO , removed MATE , installed Openbox and configured all the needed settings for openbox but neither lightdm options nor sddm options show Openbox , it only shows LXDE to be able to login to. What am I missing to do here?
I vaguely remember having removed openbox.desktop from /usr/share/xsessions/ in the ISO, because (in the live ISO context) openbox is only used by LXDE and not fully configured (which resulted in unexpected behaviour if selected from the login screen). I believe the solution is to re-install openbox and thus restoring openbox.desktop. Please, let us know if that fixed it.