Re: Can't start lightdm.

Hi Samuel, Well, lightdm and Mate started normally when I rebooted the machine about a day later. ODD! Next time something like that hapens I will try systemctl restart lightdm of course as root. Thanks for the info. John On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > john

Can't start lightdm.

Hello, This afternoon there was a momentary power failure. My UPS failed also. After rebooting I got the message Screen not in text mode. Only tty7 is affected. Typing service lightdm restart as root produces the same message. How can this happen? How can I fix it? Thanks, John -- John J. Bo

Simple mail program for Mate

Hello, I've been using fetchmail and mutt at the command line to handle mail, but this leaves something to be desired if the mail is html or containg links. It would be nice to have something like this in Mate. I've tried Thunderbird on Windows, but it tries todo much more than I want, and i fi