Necessary JWM pitstop to alt-DE? [SOLVED]

[JASpup]

I boot a 64 Xenial XFCE full puplet .iso that I've recently discovered in .pet form (i.e., installs the DE to Mainline JWM from .pet).

The puplet is usable overall but the .pet is less bloated. E.g., LibreOffice is not included by .pet, while it's not removable by automation in the full puplet.

When I boot the XFCE .pet, it tries to load JWM first, struggling before eventually rendering XFCE.

This .pet wouldn't support a pupsave. I had to covert it to ydrv for use (makes sense as peebea does not release alt-DE .pets but ydrv).

I looked at rc.local which is referenced from rc.sysinit, but jwm is not mentioned in the scripts.

How to skip JWM on the way to an alt-DE?

[rockedge]

I think you need to look in /root/.initrc at the bottom of the script.

[JASpup]

I think you need to look in /root/.initrc at the bottom of the script.

Outta my technical league but I see the $CURRENTWM variable which looks on point.

I might record the screen next boot for feedback even if no one is sure/interested in the dilemma. It's a unique go.

[rockedge]

@JASpup
You can try this:

open /etc/windowmanager and change the jwm to xfce4-session (or which ever works for you), save it and reboot see if it works better.

[TerryH]

I believe for xfce it should be xfce4-session

[JASpup]

Yes, I am in X-Tahr at the moment and that is the variable.

Will report results later back on 64.

[JASpup]

The existing variable was the xwin argument, startxfce4.

Change it to xfce4-session and no JWM on boot.