On 12/21/17 04:20, Roger Price wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, David Christensen wrote:On 12/20/17 02:49, Roger Price wrote:Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce. Gnome is also installed. The login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the "greeter" screen too long, then something intervenes and puts the two monitors into a sleep mode (iiyama E1700S orange light). I cannot find any key combination which wakes up gdm3.Have you tried right-clicking with the mouse? My laptop with Stretch, Xfce, and the default login manager (lightdm?) requires this.I tried mouse buttons 1, 2 and 3. I also tried Ctl-Mouse 1/2/3, Ctl-Alt-Mouse 1/2/3, Ctl-RightAlt-Mouse 1/2/3, Shift-Mouse 1/2/3, etc. But no success.
Ok. It was worth a try. On 12/21/17 04:01, Roger Price wrote: > In file /etc/X11/default-display-manager I replaced /usr/sbin/gdm3 with > /usr/sbin/lightdm and restarted the box. It got as far as run level 5 > but with no display manager. journalctl reports that the "Gnome display > Manager" could not be started, despite five attempts.As I use Debian 9, I am finding that some things are configured by systemd, some things by old-school files, and many by both. What a confusing mess...
If you like Xfce, I suggest you do a backup/ wipe/ install/ update/ restore cycle, selecting Xfce (and only Xfce) as your desktop. That's what I do, and it works (mostly).
David