Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:50:36AM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> dmacdoug wrote:
>
> > sure enough there is no DISPLAY environment variable set. So I set it and
> > then the error message became:
> >
> > Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session
> > manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
> >
> > I notice there are several other variables missing which do appear on
> > another machine with working xfce system, i.e. one still on stretch
> > distribution, such as XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-, XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
> > as well as SESSION_MANAGER and several others.
>
> Huh. How odd. I guess the next step would be to do "pgrep xf" on a
> working and non-working system and see what's not running on the
> non-working system. (In particular, is xfce4-session running?) Then
> make sure the corresponding packages are installed on the non-working
> system.
>
> What display manager is the non-working system using?
>
> Is /usr/bin/startxfce4 present on the non-working system?
>
It looks like lightdm is runnung on the system that is not working.
I don't think there is any display manager on the working system.
On it, startx runs xinit which starts xfce4.
startxfce4 is present on both systems.
I did something yesterday and ended up restarting the system on
the non-working machine and mow it looks like xfce4 isn't running
on that machine. I don't have physical access to it till Sunday
afternoon. I'm currently working on it through a remote shell
and I'm not sure if or how I can start an X session on the
console from a remote shell so I think I'll have to continue this
next week. Then I'll compare them with pgrep and see what
differences there are.
Until then, thanks for your help.
To be continued.
Don
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