Re: no display manager for 3 days
On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 21:00:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 24 iul 14, 14:08:55, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 08:50:49 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > > I can't help you with the root cause, because I know less about
> > > systemd than I know of the plant life at the North Pole, but if it
> > > were me, for the time being, I'd just do the workaround and use
> > > startx. You put your window manager in .xinitrc, and then from the
> > > command prompt, as a normal user, type "startx".
> >
> > It is much wiser to use ~/.xsession on Debian.
>
> Or 'update-alternatives --config x-session-manager', which provides a
> nice menu with all installed x-session-managers and makes the setting
> system-wide.
Indeed. What I mentioned though is minor in the context of the OP's
issue. If xinit won't work, neither will startx. Declaring the "root
cause" to lie outside X probably isn't helpful either.
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