On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:44:38PM +0100, enno wrote: > This time after switching to blind VT2 it took several seconds, about 10, and > all of a sudden the VT switched back to live--my first trials to solve this > riddle included once waiting for more than 10 mins and nothing happened. Now > I tried Alt-F7 and had half a second of something looking very much like > enlightenment--and then the screen went black again, including all VTs. > > What is enlightenment_system and enlightenment_fm? They don't have manpages > and they don't accept -h or --help. _fm says: enlightenment_system implements privileged actions so enlightnement doesn't need root to e.g. shutdown the system.
enlightenment_fm implements the file manager. > If it is of help, here's the .xsession-errors from the most recent "crashed" > e-launch: This is usually the most useful info. [snip] > ESTART: 1.98189 [0.00002] - Screens Init > ESTART: 1.98190 [0.00002] - screens: client > ESTART: 1.98196 [0.00006] - E_Screensaver Init > ESTART: 1.98199 [0.00002] - screens: client volume > ESTART: 1.98201 [0.00002] - screens: win > ESTART: 2.05413 [0.07213] - Compositor Init > RRR: ................. info get! > RRR: .... out LVDS > RRR: ...... lid_closed = 0 (1 && 0) > RRR: ...... connected 1 > RRR: ...... modes 0x230a8c0 > RRR: 'LVDS' 0 0 1600x900 > RRR: .... out DisplayPort-0 > RRR: ...... lid_closed = 0 (0 && 0) > RRR: ...... connected 0 > RRR: ...... modes (nil) > RRR: .... out DisplayPort-1 > RRR: ...... lid_closed = 0 (0 && 0) > RRR: ...... connected 0 > RRR: ...... modes (nil) > RRR: .... out DisplayPort-2 > RRR: ...... lid_closed = 0 (0 && 0) > RRR: ...... connected 0 > RRR: ...... modes (nil) > RRR: .... out VGA-0 > RRR: ...... lid_closed = 0 (0 && 0) > RRR: ...... connected 0 > RRR: ...... modes (nil) This output shows that X has detected five outputs, and only one (LVDS) is connected. Do you have the lid closed on your laptop? I wonder if it's running on the closed laptop screen. The later output about screen configuration only shows actions for LVDS. > BTW I'm writing this on flwm which works perfectly but just isn't e, > especially not MY e. Since other windows managers are able to start X normally, it might be useful to see if you can start one yourself: 1) From a VT run `startx xterm` (or whatever terminal you use). 2) Assuming X starts correctly, you should see a terminal in the top left. 3) Move the mouse in the term and run `enlightenment_start`. Ross
