6 Mar
2023
6 Mar
'23
2:09 a.m.
On 3/5/23 6:34 PM, Dave Close via tde-users wrote:
<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Fedora_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions>
provides
great instructions for installing TDE on a working Fedora 37 system. But the last section
provides
no help for starting TDE from a "run-level 3" system (multi-user, not
graphical). The built-in
startx command does not detect TDE. Or, more specifically, the /etc/sysconfig/desktop
script. Of
course, I can modify that script but I have no idea what to add to it. It would be nice
if the TDE
installation provided an updated version.
Hi Dave,
I do not use Fedora and have no idea what /etc/sysconfig/desktop is for.
I am a long time Slackware user and have launched X from the command
line for more than 20 years.
The traditional way to launch X from the console is with
/usr/bin/startx, which actually is a shell script. At the command prompt
type startx and see what happens.
The startx script looks for a $HOME/.xinitrc and if not found looks for
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which often is a sym link to another xinitrc
file in the same directory. The sym link is considered the system
"default" xinitrc.
If installed correctly, and I presume the Fedora packager has done so,
then one of those two xinitrc scripts will contain the command to launch
/opt/trinity/bin.
I hope that helps.
DA