OK thanks I missed that. However, upon checking, I do have the libfm3 package installed, and it looks like all the lxsession packages are installed:
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy libfm3
libfm3:
Installed: 1.1.2.1-1~pre1
Candidate: 1.1.2.1-1~pre1
Version table:
*** 1.1.2.1-1~pre1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy lxsession*
lxsession-default-apps:
Installed: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Candidate: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main i386 Packages
lxsession:
Installed: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Candidate: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main i386 Packages
0.4.9.2-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
lxsession-lite:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
lxsession-logout:
Installed: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Candidate: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main i386 Packages
lxsession-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Version table:
0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
0.4.9.2-1+siduction1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main i386 Packages
0.4.9.2-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
lxsession-edit-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.2.0-3
Version table:
0.2.0-3 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
lxsession-data:
Installed: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Candidate: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main i386 Packages
lxsession-edit:
Installed: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Candidate: 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction1 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main i386 Packages
0.2.0-3 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
I wonder why it's still the openbox desktop? I saw an upgrade to distro-defaults come in today -- would that affect the LXDE config?
EDIT 29 AUG: Since d-u has not been possible for some days due to the perl transition, today I thought I would take a look at apt-get -s upgrade
just to see what was out there. To my surprise, I saw new lxpanel, distro-defaults, Intel video driver, and other LXDE-related packages. So I went ahead and let it upgrade, and to my surprise when I logged back in to slim, up came my LXDE desktop with the custom wallpapers just as I last saw it. Perfect!
Note that "upgrade" is not a recommended apt-get option for siduction, and I have never done that before and I don't expect to ever do it again. But this one time, it worked great to solve my issue.