XFCE doesn't start
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager.
> Oh. I've never heard of that one. It's cruel and unusual to make a
> display manager that doesn't have the letters "dm" in its name.
A good point, well taken. slim_the_dm would be nice.
/dev/sd? was nice too, except for the thumb drives. If I'd been writing
things, I'd have left the SATA/SCSI drives alone and called the USB
drives TD<something> or USB<something>. And maybe put a UUID on them --
the /dev/sds on the MB aren't going anywhere.
I liked eth<n> too. I write software, and *what* it is is much more
useful to me than *where* it is. (I know it can be changed.)
You oughta take a look at slim. Very civilized. All it does is throw up
a pretty picture, ask for your name and PW, and start XFCE with its
marvelous terminal emulator. You can chose the font and size, set it to
display black type on a yellow background (the better to see), and have
it scroll back 2000 lines so you can tell what's going on.
Oh, and with XFCE, you can surf the web and play solitaire too.
> systemctl status slim
> journalctl -u slim
> dmesg | grep -i firmware
> less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> cd /var/log && ls -lart | tail && less "whatever file is recently
Working on it. There seems to be /usr/bin/X11/x<something> missing
(where it went and why are interesting questions). But amanda's writing
to tape just now, and it doesn't like to be disturbed.
Thanks much for the systemd suggestions. Looks like they're going to
solve the problem.
--
Glenn English
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