12 Aug
2015
12 Aug
'15
6:14 p.m.
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 11:49:56 am Felix Miata wrote:
Referring to the system's default behavior here.
A front end to xinit, it says.
I'm sure that the info I'm looking for has to be documented *somewhere*, but I
haven't found it yet... :-(
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 10:05
(UTC-0400):
It does indeed seem to be Debian doing it, since I've not gotten as far as getting
TDM installed here...
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Debian has decided not to allow GUI root
log-ins. It is not a case of
I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the
default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives available. > "not
being bothered", and there is nothing wrong with Konsole (which is
> supplied by TDE, not Debian).
> I don't know where this is defined, but if I find it I'm surely going to
> change it! root@myhost# whoami
root
root@myhost:~# ps -A | egrep 'mc|onsole'
1152 ? 00:00:01 konsole
1167 pts/2 00:00:00 mc
root@myhost:~# uname -a
Linux myhost 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) x86_64
GNU/Linux
root@gmyhost:~# grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
Not a problem for me as I've logged in as root in a text console, and also have mc
installed.
root@myhost:~# egrep 'root|wRoot'
/etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc
AllowRootLogin=true
SelectedUsers=root,...
No /etc/trinity here (yet?). And I can find nothing of the sort in any other config file
that I've looked at. I've got mc open on two of the four desktops, and am poking
around in assorted config files, but this stuff is so convoluted I'm having some
trouble sorting it all out.
As of this
point in time, I find that if I log in as root in a text console, ignoring
the GUI login for the moment, then I can "startx" and it will get me there.
But
there's no obvious way to choose what desktop I want, so even though I have
several installed (TDE is coming soon! :-) I'm stuck in Xfce.
Anybody know how to fix either of these things?
Man startx. Simply startx works here with TDE as the already
selected/default session.
startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde also works here, but it disregards my xrandr
display startup commands in /etc/X11/*.
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