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Author: Ozi Traveller
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To: Alessandro Selli
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] xdm broken?
Hi Alessandro

Th existing install was working with slim. However after installing xdm
startx run as a normal user wouldn't start, but it did run as root.

Also I'm logged in on another console, and have jwm running and also
pcmanfm.

It looks like slim is still running though.

ozi



On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 4:52 AM Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???>
wrote:

> On 15/02/19 at 21:39, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have installed xdm, and it starts when I boot up, but doesn't start
> xorg when I login.
>
>
> Please check that Xorg is installed. You should have the executable
> /usr/bin/Xorg in place installed by package xserver-xorg-core. Then you
> need a desktop environment/Window Manger that xdm can hande. wdm, which is
> similar to xdm, has these defined in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm.wmlist:
> DisplayManager*wdmWm:
> default:openbox:openbox-session:startxfce4:xfce4-session:xfwm4
>
>
> Has anyone got this working? I would be interested to know how if anyone
> has.
>
> ozi
>
> [image: VirtualBox_test-64_15_02_2019_07_11_44.png]
>
>
> Please don't include a picture when a copy-and-paste would suffice.
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