[xubuntu-users] Xfce vs Xubuntu sessions

[George F. Nemeyer]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 03:04 -0500, George F. Nemeyer wrote:
> > 4.  For lightdm, where exactly are the actual session startup commands
> >     that gets executed specified?
>
> I don't have Xubuntu installed, but even for Xubuntu it's most likely
> that the default LightDM does use the *.desktop files
> in /usr/share/xsessions.

The only file there is "xubuntu.desktop" (an xubuntu session), though the
exec command in the file says 'startxfce4'.  There is no file for an xfce
session.

Since both types of sessions are listed on the lightdm login screen, and
since 'startxfce4' alone results in a partly broken desktop when invoked,
it's unlikely this is the source of what's actually being used unless
something else is executed for an Xubuntu session *before* the
'startxfce4' command is called.

This is what prompted my question #1:  namely, what constitues an 'Xubuntu
session' (i.e. one that works fully) versus an 'XFCE session' (which seems
partly broken)?

=^_^=  Tigerwolf