On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 21:00:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iul 14, 14:08:55, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 08:50:49 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > I can't help you with the root cause, because I know less about > > > systemd than I know of the plant life at the North Pole, but if it > > > were me, for the time being, I'd just do the workaround and use > > > startx. You put your window manager in .xinitrc, and then from the > > > command prompt, as a normal user, type "startx". > > > > It is much wiser to use ~/.xsession on Debian. > > Or 'update-alternatives --config x-session-manager', which provides a > nice menu with all installed x-session-managers and makes the setting > system-wide.
Indeed. What I mentioned though is minor in the context of the OP's issue. If xinit won't work, neither will startx. Declaring the "root cause" to lie outside X probably isn't helpful either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140724210819.gc27...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
