
Originally Posted by
steeldriver
You don't really need the extra step of "touch"ing the file - just *create* it using your favorite text editor and type the lxsession command into it, or directly by echoing the desired command string to an empty file using
Code:
echo 'lxsession -s Lubuntu -e LXDE' > ~/.xsession
or alternatively
Code:
cat > ~/.xsession
lxsession -s Lubuntu -e LXDE
and then hitting Ctrl-d to quit
steeldriver,
Thank you for your comments, but i am afraid that i didn't do something correctly. Here are my steps that i took from the start:
- installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 14.04 trusty onto my machine
- ran in command line - sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
- ran in command line - sudo reboot
- login as the user that i created when i set up the machine
- ran in command line - sudo apt-get install lxde-common --no-install-recommends
- ran in command line - sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core --no-install-recommends
- ran in command line - echo 'lxsession -s Lubuntu -e LXDE' > ~/.xsession
- ran in command line - sudo reboot
- login as the user that i created when i set up the machine
- ran in command line - startx
Here is where i get an error. It appears that it is trying to start up Lubuntu but cannot. I get a 30 or so "Initializing built-in" lines then "loading extension GLX". This looks like it is probably correct, but then i get some lines that start off (EE) and the last few are as follows:
Code:
Fatal server error:
(EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused
xinit: server error
I am very new to this but "giving up" never sounds good 
I looked around for the fatal service error and maybe i don't have a graphics chip or something to support Lubuntu?? I am not sure what any of this means.
If you know why this is not working, let me know, or if you need the log information, i think i could probably figure out how to open that file and view it.
Thank again for your help