6 Mar
2023
6 Mar
'23
12:34 a.m.
<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.
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6 Mar
6 Mar
2 a.m.
On Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:34:12 -0800
Dave Close via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> 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.
You probably need to point something at the starttde script. My .xinitrc just contains
/usr/trinity/14/bin/starttde
and TDE starts reliably when I run startx. I have no idea what distro-specific wrinkles
Fedora may have added, though (and the path to the script will probably be different
for you).
E. Liddell
9 Mar
9 Mar
5:43 a.m.
I 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.
E. Liddell answered:
You probably need to point something at the starttde
script.
My .xinitrc just > contains
/usr/trinity/14/bin/starttde
and TDE starts reliably when I run startx.
Thank you. I modified the /etc/X11/Xclients script to include this
and startx now works wonderfully for me. Sorry it took so long to
say so -- stuff happens in life.
The /etc/sysconfig/desktop script on Fedora is an optional way
to specify which of the possible installed DEs should be used. It
really wasn't relevant to my question and I simply misspoke. However,
I did need to set it to "TDE" to avoid starting Fedora's KDE which
is also installed. My revised Xclients is available on request.
But having KDE 5 installed before installing TDE seems to resulted in
some confusion. The DE startup splash screen, for example, says it is
starting Plasma by KDE. Once started, it does appear to actually be
TDE. But some parts of TDE don't work as expected. For example, the TDE
Control Center doesn't start if selected from the start menu. Nothing
at all happens. Starting kcontrol from a shell does start what appears
to be the program but nothing in it works. On exit, the shell reports,
"WARNING: No TDE menu group with X-TDE-BaseGroup=settings found |
Defaulting to Settings/". I have installed all of TDE itself but none
of its applications.
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6 Mar
6 Mar
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
5:10 a.m.
Dave Close via tde-users composed on 2023-03-05 16:34 (UTC-0800):
<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.
I'd like to know too. IceWM won't start with startx either. There's a legacy
support configuration option out there that needs to enable Xorg directly from
startx, but I don't know how to locate it.
$ /usr/bin/startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde
/usr/bin/sh: /usr/bin/X: Permission denied
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
$ ll /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/bin/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 6 20:10 /usr/bin/X -> Xorg
-rws--x--x 1 root root 277 Feb 6 20:07 /usr/bin/Xorg # ← NOT default perms
$ uname -r
6.1.14-200.fc37.x86_64
$ rpm -qa | grep Xorg
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.14-18.fc37.x86_64
$ /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/icewm
<same sequence as above>
$ ll /usr/bin/icewm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1609488 Jan 24 05:52 /usr/bin/icewm
$ fpaste /usr/bin/startx
Uploading (7.4KiB)...
https://paste.centos.org/view/a548eca0
Maybe Darrell can spot something in startx that's different from Slackware.
According to a primary X maintainer for SUSE, startx has not been supported "since
more than 2 decades"[1] (for a non-root user). It fails on openSUSE with same
results as on Fedora, and IIRC, I've see somewhere in Fedora mailing lists and/or
RedHat Bugzilla comments to same effect.
Recent openSUSE bug I reported for trouble getting a default X session to start,
which I couldn't reproduce when using TDM/TDE, addressed by same maintainer:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208268
[1] <https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208198#c23> (mere recent
example, though oft repeated)
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Felix Miata
1 p.m.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 00:10:42 -0500
Felix Miata via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Maybe Darrell can spot something in startx that's
different from Slackware.
According to a primary X maintainer for SUSE, startx has not been supported "since
more than 2 decades"[1] (for a non-root user). It fails on openSUSE with same
results as on Fedora, and IIRC, I've see somewhere in Fedora mailing lists and/or
RedHat Bugzilla comments to same effect.
Not Darrell, but after plugging your file into a diff alongside mine, the
following jumps out at me:
(Yours)
if [ "$have_vtarg" = "no" -a x"$vtarg" != x ]; then
serverargs="$serverargs $vtarg"
# Fedora specific mod to make X run as non root
export XORG_RUN_AS_USER_OK=1
fi
(Mine)
if [ "$have_vtarg" = "no"]; then
serverargs="$serverargs $vtarg"
fi
Mine also doesn't trap the KILL signal. There are several other differences
that don't appear to be germane.
However, spelunking through the ebuild shows me that there is an actual
build-time option to make an X server require a logind provider (either
systemd or elogind) when running as nonroot. There's also an option
to be used in combination with this to set a suid wrapper needed by some
video modules.
If your copy was compiled with -Dsystemd_logind=true, you need a
logind provider. If you're unlucky enough to need the suid wrapper, but
your X was compiled with -Dsuid_wrapper=false, it's possible that there's
nothing you can do to fix this.
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