On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 01/26/18 15:01, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 01/25/2018 07:54 PM, InvalidPath wrote: > >> > >> > >> Ok so tonight I tried enabling, and I had to manually rm or mv the > existing > >> display-manager.service file because enabling another DE would not > overwrite it. I > >> tried both SDDM and LightDM... neither of which would boot correctly, > all got was > >> a black screen with no mouse. Alt+F# would not work either. So I'm > thinking she > >> locked up tight as a drum. > > > > First you disable the old DM, then enable the new one. > > systemctl -f enable sddm > > does what is needed. The "key" is the -f which means "force" > > -f, --force > When used with enable, overwrite any existing conflicting > symlinks. > > > FWIW, I had already given this command to the OP in a different thread. > > > -- > A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > @Ed I know /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service is a symlink, I use zsh so I saw the light blue flashing text in my terminal ;) And neither works meaning, I tried replacing this symlink with one pointing to /usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service because the command you gave me would not overwrite the symlink.. and I even ran it as root but it still refused. No clue why really but honestly I didnt care enough to find out. So I manually created a new symlink to teh sddm file. Then later on I created one (overwriting the default) to the LightDM service file. All to no avail. And by boot correctly in last nights escapades I mean that this time... I did not even get a mouse cursor... just black. And I did remove the Gnome bits but this time I did it individually after 'sudo --exclude='qemu* libvirt*' remove gnome-<package-name>' which after many of these the GDM was removed, I ended up reinstalling GDM* which in turn reinstalled every BLASTED thing that I had just removed beforehand. So frustrating. I did check the contents of /var/lib/sddm/state.conf and it references gnome-desktop of all things! Why is it so bloody hard to change the Display Managers up in here?? @Joe So are you meaning that I should mask or delete the symlink to my current DM, maybe reboot then create one for teh other.. like SDDM or LightDM?
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