On 8/15/21 5:15 PM, dep wrote:

said Edward: | After upgrading to Debian 11 on both of my two systems, upon reboot, I | lost the TDE Display Manager. The login screen defaults to whatever | Debian itself uses and I have been unsuccessful getting the TDE login | manager back. | | > ~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity | > tdm.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. | | Also...during the upgrade, one of the packages it wanted to remove was | binutils, which it did. It left a package binutils-common installed, but | not upgraded. If I attempted to remove binutils-common, it also wanted | to remove numerous Trinity packages. | | Is there a fix for these issues??

Hasn't TDM been mostly or entirely supplanted by sddm?

dep

sddm was the other display manager installed.

I found instructions at https://linuxhint.com/change-display-manager-debian-linux/ using the command to configure sddm, allowed me to select between it and tdm-trinity as the display manager. Upon a reboot afterwards (both systems), the Trinity Display Manager now successfully comes up.

The binutils issue remains, if I attempt to install it along with one missing dependency through the command line, it still wants to remove binutils-common as well as the numerous Trinity packages.

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Trinity Desktop Environment: 14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)

Info re libr0:

~$ sudo apt install binutils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libr0 : Depends: libbinutils (< 2.31.2) but 2.35.2-2 is to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. ~$ sudo apt install binutils libbinutils libr0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done libr0 is already the newest version (4:14.0.10-0debian10.0.0+0). libr0 set to manually installed. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libr0 : Depends: libbinutils (< 2.31.2) but 2.35.2-2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

-- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience.

Trinity Desktop Environment: 14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)

dep composed on 2021-08-15 22:37 (UTC):

said Felix Miata:

| dep composed on 2021-08-15 21:15 (UTC):

| > Hasn't TDM been mostly or entirely supplanted by sddm?

| On 97% of my installations, not even close. It's missing functionality | of KDM/TDM, very frustrating. All my TDE installations have TDM only. I | even use it where otherwise I have only KDE/Plasma installed.

Out of curiosity: What functionality did it lose? I truly can't tell the difference here between them.

I've long since forgotten the differences. Two that come to mind:

1-The "default" mousetype-free (non-themed) theme layout in KDM/TDM is as close to perfect as any greeter could possibly be, and easy to "customize" by copying kdmrc from local template. Everything needed takes minimal mouse movement, if a mouse is to be used at all.

2-No way to pick and choose user names, regardless of UID or GID, to be displayed on login screen in any other DM that I've ever found. IOW, nothing else akin to ShowUsers=Selected and SelectedUsers=userT,userD,userE.