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
On 11/13/2017 02:26 PM, m.roth at 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? > > markAll the Google says is that you can select the session from the GNOME interface (assuming you've got another GUI on there).? As my setup was on Ubuntu, I can't really help from my experience. -- Mark Haney Network Engineer at NeoNova 919-460-3330 option 1 mark.haney at neonova.net www.neonova.net
On Nov 13, 2017, at 14:26, m.roth at 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 the lightdm package/service if you want a graphical login screen. I don?t understand how you would have had an automatic log in as root xfce session though. -- Jonathan Billings
On Nov 13, 2017, at 18:11, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> 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 restart prefdm -- Jonathan Billings
On 11/13/2017 11:26 AM, m.roth at 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 /etc/inittab to change the default on C6; use "systemctl set-default graphical.target" on C7).? You can select what session you'd like to run from the login screen, before you enter your password. In the future, please be specific about what you've done when asking what you've done wrong.? :)
On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 11/13/2017 11:26 AM, m.roth at 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 there's no need for insults. You know perfectly well that I'm a professional sysadmin, and that I've been here for years. It's a Netbook. I yum groupinstalled xfce, created an /etc/sysconfig/desktop, added a line in /etc/X11/prefdm to include xfce, copying one of the other lines, and rebooted. It came in in runlevel 5, no login. In other words, what I'd do with any other display manager. mark> > Instead, you should be booting the graphical target (edit /etc/inittab to > change the default on C6; use "systemctl set-default graphical.target" on > C7).? You can select what session you'd like to run from the login screen, > before you enter your password. > > In the future, please be specific about what you've done when asking what > you've done wrong.? :) > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos