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| =Overview=
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| {{tip|Since version 1.6.2, SLiM will automatically find installed desktop environments and window managers.}}
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| [[File:slim.png|thumb|left|375px]]
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| SLiM - the '''S'''imple '''L'''og'''i'''n '''M'''anager - is currently the default Display Manager for the Manjaro Openbox (ManjaroBox) flavour.
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| SLiM is highly configurable with an abundance of extra themes available. Since version 1.6.2, it has become suitable for less experienced users as it can now automatically detect any installed desktop environments and window managers. However, users installing SLiM manually will still need to make an amendment to the ''.xinitrc'' configuration file for it to work properly.
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| = Configuring SLiM to Start Desktop Environments =
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| {{tip|It is not necessary to take any action for Manjaro Openbox (ManjaroBox) release 0.8.8 and onwards.}} | |
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| '''Users who have installed an earlier version of SLiM''' (e.g. provided with the Manjaro Openbox 0.8.7.1 release and earlier) will need to manually edit both the ''SLiM configuration file'' (slim.conf) and the ''X-Windows initialisation file'' (.xinitrc) in order to enable the new auto-detect feature. '''Users who have manually installed the latest version of SLiM''' will only need to manually edit the ''.xinitrc'' file. The amendments required are themselves very quick and easy to implement.
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| ==Edit the SLiM Configuration File==
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| The purpose of checking and/or editing this file is to ensure that SLiM will automatically detect installed desktop environments and window managers. You will need to first open your terminal in order to edit the '''SLiM configuration file'''. The syntax of the command to do this is:
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| sudo [text editor] /etc/slim.conf
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| For example, if you wish to edit the file using ''Geany'' (provided with the Openbox flavour) then enter:
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| gksu geany /etc/slim.conf
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| Otherwise, if you wish to edit the file using ''Gedit'' (provided with the XFCE flavour) then enter:
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| gksu gedit /etc/slim.conf
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| ==Ensure SLiM Automatically Detects Installed Environments==
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| Once the SLiM configuration file has been opened, it will be necessary to ensure that the following line is present:
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| sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions/
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| '''Users who had a previous version of SLiM installed''' must replace the '''sessions''' command with the above '''sessiondir''' command. For example, '''users who installed Manjaro Openbox 0.8.7.1 or earlier''' should first find the following section:
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| '''# Available sessions (first one is the default).'''
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| # The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
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| # above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
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| # see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
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| '''<font color="green">sessions xfce,gnome3,kde,cinnamon,razor-qt,openbox,lxde,mate </font color>'''
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| And make the necessary amendment so that it now looks like this:
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| '''# Available sessions (first one is the default).'''
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| # The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
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| # above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
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| # see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
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| '''<font color="green">sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions/</font color>'''
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| Once satisfied that the ''sessiondir'' command is present and/or has replaced the old ''sessions'' command, save and close the file. The next - and final - step necessary is to edit and configure the '''X-Windows Initialisation File'''.
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| ==Edit the X-Windows Initialisation File==
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| {{tip|The ''.xinitrc'' file is already owned by you, so there is no need to use the 'sudo' or 'gksu' commands to edit it.}} | |
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| The .xinitrc is responsible for actually starting your installed desktop environment(s). You will need to first open your terminal in order to edit the '''X-Windows initialisation file'''. The syntax of the command to do this is:
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| [text editor] ~/.xinitrc
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| '''Don't forget the dot'''. For example, if you wish to edit the file using ''Geany'', then enter:
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| geany ~/.xinitrc
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| Otherwise you could use the ''Gedit'' text editor instead, by entering the command:
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| gedit ~/.xinitrc
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| ==Ensure the X-Windows Initialisation File Runs Installed Environments==
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| {{warning|SLiM no longer seems to support a default session. It will therefore be necessary to select what desktop environment or window manager you wish to use by first pressing the '''<F1>''' key, prior to entering your username and password.}}
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| Once the .xinitrc configuration file has been opened, it will be necessary to ensure that the following line is present <u>at the very end of the configuration file</u>:
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| exec $1
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| '''Users who had a previous version of SLiM installed''' must completely replace both the previous '''case "$1"''' and '''DEFAULTSESSION=''' commands listed below with the '''exec $1''' command. For example, '''users who installed Manjaro Openbox 0.8.7.1 or earlier''' should first find the following section:
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| DEFAULTSESSION=openbox-session
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| case "$1" in
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| openbox) exec openbox-session ;;
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| xfce) exec xfce4-session ;;
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| gnome3) exec gnome-session ;;
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| kde) exec startkde ;;
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| cinnamon) exec gnome-session-cinnamon ;;
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| razor-qt) exec razor-session ;;
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| lxde) exec lxsession ;;
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| mate) exec mate-session ;;
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| *) exec $DEFAULTSESSION ;;
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| esac
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| And make the necessary amendment so that it now looks like this:
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| exec $1
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| To clarify for newer users, the entire ''.xinitrc'' file should now look like this:
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| #!/bin/sh
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| # ~/.xinitrc
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| #
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| # Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
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| #
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| ## Ensure that the D-Bus Communication System is running properly to fix
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| ## File management, authentication, and other essential system processes
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| if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
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| eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
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| fi
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| ## Ensure that GTK themes are applied uniformly in the Desktop Environment
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| export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"
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| ## Where the default Home folders have not already been created, generate them
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| if [ -x /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update ]; then
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| /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update
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| fi
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| ## Ensure that obmenu-generator (a pipe menu) is set to the user.
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| ## Needs only to be run once, so last sed command hashes the sed
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| ## commands!
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| sed 's/_user_/'$(whoami)'/' ~/.config/obmenu-generator/schema.pl -i
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| sed 's/_user_/'$(whoami)'/' ~/.config/obmenu-generator/config.pl -i
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| exec $1
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| Once satisfied that the ''exec $1'' command is present and/or has replaced the old ''case "$1"'' and ''DEFAULTSESSION='' commands, save and close the file. Now reboot the system for the changes to take effect.
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| =Selecting Multiple Desktop Environments=
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| [[File:slimsessions.png|thumb|left|375px]]
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| {{Note|Again, there is no longer a 'default session', so you will have to manually pick the installed desktop you wish. This includes even where only Openbox has been installed, as it is possible to use this window manager with the KDE desktop environment.}} | |
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| Where two or more desktop environments have be installed (or at least just Openbox), then they can be cycled and selected by pressing the '''F1''' key on the SLiM login screen.
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| = Previewing Installed Themes =
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| Thankfully, it is not necessary to repeatedly edit the SLiM configuration file and re-boot your system in order to see what the installed themes look like. More conveniently, they can instead be previewed in the terminal. To do so, once the themes have of course been installed:
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| 1. Change to the directory that contains the themes by entering the following command:
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| cd /usr/share/slim/themes/
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| 2. List the installed themes available by entering the following command:
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| ls
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| 3. Preview any and all installed themes listed. The syntax of the command to do so is:
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| slim -p [name of theme]
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| For example, to preview a listed theme called ''mindlock'', the following command would be entered
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| slim -p mindlock
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| To exit from a theme currently being previewed, simply type '''exit''' into the ''user name'' field and then press <enter>
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| = Changing Themes =
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| [[File:slimmindlock.png|thumb|left|375px]]
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| {{tip|There may be even more themes available from the '''[[Arch User Repository]]'''.}}
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| A particularly strong feature of SLiM that has attracted many users is the abundance of varied and wide-ranging themes available for it. Moreover, these themes are very easy to set. To install all available themes for SLiM from the official Manjaro repositories, enter the following command in the terminal:
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| sudo pacman -S slim-themes archlinux-themes-slim
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| == Open the SLiM Configuration File ==
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| You will need to first open your terminal in order to edit the '''SLiM configuration file'''. The syntax of the command to do this is:
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| gksu [text editor] /etc/slim.conf
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| For example, if you wish to edit the file within the terminal using the ''gedit'' text editor, the command is:
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| gksu gedit /etc/slim.conf
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| == Set the Desired Theme ==
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| {{warning|Make sure that you list the name of the desired theme correctly.}}
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| Enabling the automatic login is undertaken in the following section, located near the bottom of the SLiM configuration file:
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| # current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to
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| # randomly choose from
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| <font color="green">'''current_theme default'''</font color>
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| To change the theme, simply replace the name of the current theme listed after the '''current_theme''' command (e.g. default) with the name of the desired theme to set. As an example, SliM has been configured to use the ''mindlock'' theme:
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| # current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to
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| <font color="green">'''current_theme mindlock'''</font color>
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| Once your amendments have been completed, you can save your changes and close the configuration file by:
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| * '''nano''': Press CTRL and 'x' to exit, 'y' to save, and <enter> to finish, or
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| * '''gedit''': Select the 'save' option and then close the window.
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| =SLiM Login Commands=
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| {{tip|This section may prove especially useful if SLiM has been misconfigured in some way!}}
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| SLiM also provides a number of basic functions in addition to logging into a desktop environment. To use these features, simply enter the following commands into the user name field:
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| * '''exit''' - Return to the command line
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| * '''halt''' - Shutdown the system
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| * '''reboot''' - Reboot the system
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| * '''console''' - Launch the terminal
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| = Enable Auto-Login =
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| It is indeed possible to enable automatic login. To do so, it will be necessary to edit both the ''SLiM configuration file'' (slim.conf) and the and the ''X-Windows initialisation file''. Instructions on how to actually open these files to edit them have been omitted as they have already been provided earlier in the article.
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| ==Enable Auto-Login in the SLiM Configuration file==
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| Once the SLiM configuration file has been opened, follow the three steps provided.
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| '''1.''' Sash-out the the following command, as it is no longer-necessary to auto-detect installed desktop environments:
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| sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions/
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| It should therefore look like this:
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| #sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions/
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| '''2.''' Amend the following line to set yourself as the default user by removing the hash, and replacing 'simone' with your account name:
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| #default_user simone
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| For example, for the user 'carl', the line would be changed to:
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| default_user carl
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| '''3.''' Finally, enable auto-login by amending the following line:
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| #auto_login no
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| It should therefore look like this:
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| auto_login yes
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| Once complete, save and close the file. All that is required now is to edit the ''.xinitrc'' file.
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| ==Set the Desktop Environment in the .xinitrc Configuration file==
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| Once the SLiM Configuration file has been amended, '''exec $1''' must be replaced with the session (i.e. Desktop Environment or Window Manager) to run automatically. The syntax of the new command is:
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| exec [desktop-session]
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| For example, to set Openbox as the default session to log into automatically, the following command would be used:
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| exec openbox-session
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| Here are a sample of exec commands for popular desktops to aid new users:
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| exec openbox-session
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| exec xfce4-session
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| exec gnome-session
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| exec startkde
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| exec cinnamon-session
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| exec razor-session
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| exec lxsession
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| exec mate-session
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| Once complete, save and close the file. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect.
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