how to start particular desktop with startx

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Harry Putnam wrote:
>Little Girl writes:

>> Can you type startlxqt or startlxde instead of startx when you're
>> in the console?  

>Thank you,

Any time.

>Yes, of course, but my hope is to start the lubuntu-desktop
>environment.  Even though lubuntu uses lxqt if has many other
>features as well.

Okay. I'm not quite sure how that's done.

>I did find that by starting `sddm' window manager... the desktop
>comes up in lubuntu-desktop env.  It also provides a chance to
>change to several other desktops.

So sddm works, but does more than you want it to, right?

>The one thing I notice though is that it is a long and slow process
>to get to X compared to what you would get with just using startx and
>having it call the right stuff to start lubuntu-desktop.

I've got two pages for you that might help:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243195/what-desktop-environment-does-startx-run-and-how-can-i-change-it

and:

https://superuser.com/questions/671169/starting-and-stopping-x11-and-lxde-from-command-line

Then there's this third page that looks like it will help, because it
goes into great detail on (and provides example scripts for) a variety
of ways to start the GUI, with special mention of window managers,
which seems to be what you're after:

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO/runningx.html

-- 
Little Girl

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