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
