Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 10:05 (UTC-0400):
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)" root@myhost:~# egrep 'root|wRoot' /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc AllowRootLogin=true SelectedUsers=root,...
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/*.