Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Wednesday 27 September 2017 17:57:59 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:42:51PM -0400, Gene Heskett 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.
>
> sudo su - only because it gives you root's environment and puts you in
> root's home directory
>
> > > 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?
>
> Sorry, my mistake. I'd thought you were installing LXDE. In fact, I
> used tasksel to install XFCE with no problems - it also includes
> lightdm as a login manager and the whole lot autostarts.
>
> It doesn't really matter: the point is that you can go from command
> line only to a complete windowing environment with one command.
>
> > > All the  best,
> > >
> > > Andy C
>
> And again, all the best.
Thank you Andy. But something has changed here on this wheezy box, and 
the xfce4 default terminal, terminal-0.4.8 has suddenly become a 
disappearing act, so I'm now trying Konsole from my TDE install. None of 
the other terminals have the features I need, like tabs.

However it seems I still have locale problems.

From the rock64's sshd session:

rock64@rock64:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for rock64:
root@rock64:~# tasksel install LXDE
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
root@rock64:~#

And it did not do anything.

Is there a one stop locale configurator for an X-less machine? I did a 
dpkg-reconfigure locale once before, but I'll try again.

root@rock64:~# dpkg-reconfigure locale
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or 
directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
dpkg-query: package 'locale' is not installed and no information is 
available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: locale is not installed

Humm, I thought it was installed, so...

root@rock64:~# apt install locale
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package locale
root@rock64:~#

Next?

Thanks Andy.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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