22 Jun
2020
22 Jun
'20
2:34 p.m.
On 2020-06-22 14:20:38 William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
On Monday 22 June 2020 16:47:19 Klaus Cook wrote:
This is a problem also in OpenSuSE, which uses update-alternatives to
manage
the various *dm settings. When I upgraded to 14.0.8-1 tdm disappeared from
the list of possible DMs in the login menu.
Manual configuration of update-alternatives is difficult to understand, and it
would be really nice if the OpenSuSE packager could add a post-installation
script to the trinity-tdm RPM package to do this?
Leslie
I am 80 years old and retired after a career in
Systems programming and
consulting, but I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux. I have
decided to try Ubuntu 20.04 and as part of the learning process I decided
to install the Trinity Desktop Environment.
After struggling through the installation I finally was able to get the
installation to run without errors, however, the Desktop does not
activate when logging into Ubuntu. Also, Trinity is not listed in the
"sessions" list on the log in page.
1. Is there anyway to check if the installation was completed correctly?
2. How do I activate the desktop if the installation was correct?
Thank you,
Klaus Cook
Houston, TX
If the Trinity desktop is already installed, open a shell (or console, or
konsole ...), and run sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity. Just in case you
are a total n00b, sudo means that you will need root privileges, meaning
your password.
For some reason, tdm-trinity does not get activated as your default
desktop, if you have other desktops installed (such as Gnome or KDE Plasma,
etc.).
I did not like exegnulinux, myself. (Sorry, Nik!) It *seemed* to complete
the installation, but I never could get it to boot into the desktop. It
would just hang in boot process, and nothing happened. There is also Q4OS
(I think that's the name), which is pretty good, but bugged me in a lot of
little ways. I would maybe try out AntiX, as you can get that with TDE
installed, I seem to recall; it is a small and very fast distro. But I
would only recommend it for laptops, not desktops with more than a single
internal hard drive.
Bill
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