Re: An experiment in backup

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>
> > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I don't know how.
> > >
> >
> > startx
> >
> >
> > I did
> sudo startx
> Hmmm.  This should be telling me something, but I don't know exactly what.
> It does not come up, but the messages on the screen of the console session
> end with
>
> Loading extension XINERAMA
> setversion 1.4 failed: Permission denied.

You shouldn't need root permission to run startx.  Running startx as a
user should just bring you into your default desktop environment.  It
will not load the login manager (GDM, KDM, etc).

I take back my previous answer.  When I do this as a normal user, I get a black screen for a while, but eventually I get a cursor I'd describe as a hollow X.  I can move it around the screen, but not do anything else.  No buttons bring up menus.  There are no widgets on screen.

I take it that X is running, but there are no clients.