On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:59:01 -0500, Jon N wrote: > I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm doing > for the most part.
There's a good chance it's not your doing. The mailing list archives suggest a lot of people have had similar ptoblems lately. My gdm3 failed today. It gives me a black screen with a few icons in the top left that I can use for things like check battery status and powering down. Logging in did not seem to be an option. I still could log in on a text console (control-alt-F1) and run startx. But instead of my usual xfce I got gnome3, which I find unusable. I decide to install another display manager. I install xdm and reboot. I get to log in, but I seemed to have no choice of window manger, and again got gnome3. I install lightdm and reboot. This one gives ma a choice of window manager. I choose IceWm and my system is again usable. Don't blame yourself. I suspect it's gdm3. Again. (It screwed up the upgrade to wheezy on my server, too. But that was almost a year ago, when gnome wa in shambles. I gather it's better now. It just doesn't seem to do what I want.) There must be some way to choose a different window manager using .xinitrc or .xserverrc or something like that, but I don't know what it is. I used to, over a decade ago, when you *had* to hand-edit these files to survive. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l82ej0$78s$1...@ger.gmane.org
