Re: SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Uwe Bolick wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 09:14:29PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > ... > > Anyway, before I burn "SDDM Bridges", is there anyway to configure it to > > refer to Username, instead of "GIven Name"? > > ... > Although marked as "never mind", a hint for anyone having a si

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 feb 20, 18:52:55, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > That's an interesting concept: What happens if I enter "systemctl start > graphical-target"? Let's see... Because you didn't specify the unit type (.target) systemctl automatically considers a .service unit. > Ah! Some additional setup n

Re: SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-24 Thread Uwe Bolick
Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 09:14:29PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > ... > Anyway, before I burn "SDDM Bridges", is there anyway to configure it to > refer to Username, instead of "GIven Name"? > ... Although marked as "never mind", a hint for anyone having a similar problem but wants to keep SDD

Re: SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
Most of my original email is . After verifying SLiM on the USB Stick, I went over to that KDE Buster System, with SDDM and all those Users and wondered, "What happens if I install SLiM"? Turns out that Debian has our Back! First off, it didn't have the many Dependencies, like on the Text System

SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
First, back to the, related SLiM Thread, I had Success, after "apt install xinit" (required package, but not selected). My next bootup brought up an intriguing Startup Screen that I hadn't seen before, but which has, only one Request, obviously modified by Debian, to add the Debian Logo, and with,

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 6:49 PM Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:51 PM ghe wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> >> >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. >> >> > Oh. I've never heard of th

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello! On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:51 PM ghe wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. > > > Oh. I've never heard of that one. Neither had I. But, if it can replace SDDM, I'd love t

XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread ghe
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. > Oh. I've never heard of that one. It's cruel and unusual to make a > display manager that doesn't have the letters "dm" in its name. A good point, well ta

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in > >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and > >> startx starts XFCE just fine. > [...] > > But, if you want to diagnose your disp

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and >> startx starts XFCE just fine. [...] > But, if you want to diagnose your display manager, first figure out > which one you were trying to use. He said

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 05:43:38PM -0700, ghe wrote: > I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in > slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and > startx starts XFCE just fine. Yay! It's working! ... oh, you expected a graphical login? Meh. T

XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-23 Thread ghe
I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and startx starts XFCE just fine. I was trying to get my router to copy its config to the TFTP dir, and I did something from how-tos on the 'Net (all kinds of dif