I've recently upgraded from F11 -> F15 and having an older laptop, discovered my graphics card does not support Gnome3. I narrowed down my favorite alternatives to two light weight DE/WMs: Xfce and Fluxbox. I've discovered these are not 100% out-of-the-box ready to go with the Fedora operating system. In fact, I've ventured into what I had previously avoided--customizing my desktop environment. I've had to learn much more to complete this migration.
What I am currently trying to accomplish is to start Xfce or Fluxbox from the command line (and run level 3). I've discovered there are several other packages/apps needed to be launched with either. The normal installed setup is to boot into run level 5, where I get the login screen which has a menu to select the DE/WM of my choice. Presumably this selection also loads the other necessary apps that make any DE a usable system. For example, I've found it necessary to startx & Xfce using the following command placed in ~/.xinitrc
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4
The trouble is startx only works for one DE/WM at a time, and I wish to retain the option to select my DE/WM from a list of options (currently Xfce and Fluxbox).
My first thought: what is the equivalent of the above command I can run from bash prompt? If I had this, I could write an alias to put in .bashrc...
