On Saturday 03 August 2019 11:46:30 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-08-03 16:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 August 2019 10:35:17 mick crane wrote: > >> On 2019-08-03 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > >> >> I would probably add another user and see if they have same > >> >> problem on the local machine. > >> >> > >> >> mick > >> > > >> > I'd thought of that but not tried it yet. I'll need a user amanda > >> > who is > >> > a member of group backup for the backup program amanda. So I'll > >> > use that as a guinea pig. > >> > Or will I? copy/paste from konsole logged in as gene: > >> > > >> > gene@picnc:~$ sudo adduser > >> > [sudo] password for gene: > >> > adduser: Only one or two names allowed. > >> > gene@picnc:~$ > >> > > >> > WTH? > >> > >> I dunno, if they have no problems might be able to see what is > >> different. Can always delete them. > > > > That will take a real file manager, and theres only one, mc. thunar > > is a > > one armed, one legged paper hanger, and the arm it has is broken. > > Somebody should either give it some two pane tools, or put it out of > > its > > misery. Mc has the ncurses interface, butt ugly. But it runs and > > can do its job including from a text login on vt#roll of the die. So > > I broke > > down and installed mc mc-data. And the only diff in the home dirs is > > mine has a thunar entry. I tried to do something with that broken > > POC. Failed of course. > > > > But I just went back out and that xsession has died, and I can't log > > back > > in. Or maybe its the screen blanker kicking in and using lightdm's > > login to unblank ? If the blanker is locking it instead of coming > > alive > > at a keypress or a jiggled mouse, how the h--- do I get rid of that? > > > > If thats the case, I have more than enough paranoia, and I sure > > don't need a paranoid machine, one that when doing its job might > > need an xset -dpms so the job can be monitored until its done even > > if, like wheezy running my mill, a 70 line file of gcode text takes > > over 28 hours > > to run. > > When it logs you out can you log in at another screen (whatever it's > called) Ctrl Alt F key ? > If so then is something about the display manager ?
ctrl+alt+F8, yes, so I opened a term and did an xset -dpms. Whats the name of that lightdm config editor. Cheers Mick, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
