I have a simple and annoying problem. I would like to install XFCE on my crappy net-book to lighten the load on its ultra low-end hardware. I have had XFCE on my fedora 9 desktop a while back, so i know how this is supposed to work, but it doesn't. I googled this problem and I got 1 result that seemed to correlate to this problem, but it was WAY over my head: Something about starting X in a level 3 log on or something.

When i boot up the computer and I'm on the initial log-on screen where it is possible to select between GNOME, KDE, and even Ratpoison, this menu does not contain XFCE. I have the RPMFusion repo for fedora12: there is no reason why if I yum install xfdesktop.i686 that the entire dependency tree for this desktop will not come along with it. Im not sure if that is the issue or not. What i can tell you is that A TON of XFCE packages have been installed, and not a single one of them has enabled a selection on that start menu to switch over to the XFCE desktop environment. Even using "switchdesk" does not allow a transition.

Im sure someone here knows something about what I am doing wrong

Post me back,
Euralis