Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?
On Tuesday 26 September 2017 16:07:00 Alan Corey wrote:
> I just log in as root, it's much simpler. If you don't know the root
> password just do
> sudo passwd
> and set one. Yes, I know you should never log in as root. I've been
> doing it for 20 years anyway.
>
> I don't think a window manager or whatever these things call
> themselves these days cares about video drivers, that's between X and
> the hardware. Do you have an xorg.conf file? Modern systems usually
> don't need one, but you can specify a video driver in there.
>
Its somewhat moot, I blew it up, locked myself out and restarted on
another sd card, but I've not been aware of tasksel till last night.
I've spent the day on other things, like bringing up a swap partition of
about 7500MB on the pi. It was supposed to be 2GB, not 7.5. typu feeding
parted I imagine, I can't type near as fast as I can be distracted. But
theres disk to burn, so its a shrug.
> On 9/26/17, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2017 04:23:39 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:09:02PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >> > Same hardware and base system here.You might need to add a login
> >> > manager - I'll check :)
> >>
> >> Stock rocks64 stretch image
> >>
> >> Just sudo su - as below.
> >>
> >> Use tasksel to install LXDE - it "just works"
> >
> > How about xfce4? Its wm seems more complete. The question is which
> > one is the most likely to use the mali gfx drivers on an arm64?
> >
> >> If you're still having problems with interfaces, lo and so on - let
> >> me know and I'll copy across known good files for you to check.
> >>
> >> Did the locales and timezone fixes help?
> >
> > Yes, thank you.
> >
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Andy C
> >
> > Re sudo, I normally use sudo bash or sudo -i for that, either works
> > but bash doesn't put me in an empty /root directory.
> >
> > Thanks Andy.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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