Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/14/2017 05:02 AM, mark wrote: You left out the details of what you actually did.  Should we guess? :) Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. That was intended to be ribbing in good humor.  It was not intended to be insulting.  I apologize. You know perfectly well that I'm a pro

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-14 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:02:40AM -0500, mark wrote: >> On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> > My guess is: you ran "startx".  That starts a session as the user that >> > runs "startx" > >> It's a Netbook. I yum groupinstalled xfce, created an >> /etc/sysconfig/de

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:02:40AM -0500, mark wrote: > On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > My guess is: you ran "startx".  That starts a session as the user that > > runs "startx" > > Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. You know perfectly well that I'm > a professional sysadmin,

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-14 Thread mark
On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/13/2017 11:26 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:     Did I miss something? You left out the details of what you actually did.  Should we guess?  :) My guess is: you ran "startx".  That starts a session as the user that runs "startx" Excuse me, but th

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/13/2017 11:26 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Did I miss something? You left out the details of what you actually did.  Should we guess?  :) My guess is: you ran "startx".  That starts a session as the user that runs "startx" Instead, you should be booting the graphical target (edit

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 13, 2017, at 18:11, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > Try installing and enabling the lightdm package/service if you want a > graphical login screen. I neglected to mention: set the default run level to 5 in /etc/inittab. You can restart the graphical using upstart commands: initctl restar

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 13, 2017, at 14:26, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > So I installed xfce on my Netbook. While I was in Chicago, I worked out > how to tell it to bring it up. It came up. > > As root. With no obvious way to tell it to show a login screen first. Try installing and enabling th

Re: [CentOS] C6 and xfce

2017-11-13 Thread Mark Haney
On 11/13/2017 02:26 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi, folks, So I installed xfce on my Netbook. While I was in Chicago, I worked out how to tell it to bring it up. It came up. As root. With no obvious way to tell it to show a login screen first. Did I miss something? mark Al