similar to: Waking up X

I installed Centos 6.2/i386 on a machine last night with a 1920x1080 monitor. The installer ran in graphical mode and looked fine. After the install was finished I rebooted and ran through the "firstboot" stuff (set up user, etc) with no problem and, again, it looked good. After that, when I should have seen the gdm login screen, all I got was the blue background but not the box with

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

Roman Garcia wrote: > > Hi, > Maybe I found a hole in the security on Linux running X-Windows. > Supose that you logged as root. If you locks the screen (at least > using openwindows+virtual desktop and xlock), anybody can press > <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace>, that kills the xserver, giving the root > prompt in the console. You can disable this in the XF86Config

dominic adair-jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> dominic adair-jones wrote: >>> going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors >>> i see. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +0000,

On Dec 9, 2019, at 17:54, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, those consoles are available but they are NOT my original text mode login console which used to be vt1 and is now taken over by Gnome. What they do is bring me to a login prompt -- this is NOT what I want. This change to vt1 for my GUI, in this case, Gnome is a change with version 7 of CentOS due to some

Since I use latests Nvidia beta drivers, Xorg 7.1 and Compiz 0.3.2 from Freedesktop, I have been having problem when I switch back to X from another terminal. For example, I startx and launch Compiz without problems, everythings works fine, then I need to switch to another terminal, so I use Ctrl+Alt+F2. When I switch back to X with Ctrl+Alt+F7, I get a blank screen where I can only see and move

On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole > <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com>: >> On 2015-04-08, David Both >> <dboth at millennium-technology.com> >> wrote: >>> The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen >>> itself or the desktop simply press

On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. Thanks for your suggestions. Mike.

On 2015-04-08, David Both <dboth at millennium-technology.com> wrote: > The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself > or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart > in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The > service command does not work for gdm. However, logging out of the > desktop will

Hello I can''t seem to be able to get X working on domain U My setup domain0 -ubuntu breezy domainU -ubuntu breezy I tried 3 techniques 1. ssh -X domainU steps: on domain U $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ xhost + xhost: unable to open display ":0" on domain0 ssh -X domainU result: ssh conection established no X forwarding starts. after login tried

Howdy all, Any recommendation as to the right way to config X. Last time I did was using X86Setup back in OpenBSD 2.7 days. What's the Xorg tool? How do I invoke it? Looks like I just need to fix the ranges, maybe they mean sync vert & horiz or something. Or should I be typing gdm instead of startx? Any advice? -below are some errors, infos, although the dmesg didn't pipe out

G'day All Thank you to every one who has helped me get pam_mount and winbind working. I can now use winbind to use the passwords from a samba HEAD PDC to do authentications and pam_mount to mount the users home directory. YAY Does any one know what the option is to change the permissions on a mounted directory in pam_mount? at present it gives me rwxr-xr-x, which is fine. But I run startx

A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to firefox, and googled about refreshing that... and found something that told him to reboot. And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no, something failed, please log out and try again". Fully updated CentOS 7, [AMD/ATI] Oland

How do you restart Xorg? I can't find a target for it, and restarting graphical.target doesn't seem to do it. mark

I set up a Centos 5 machine a couple of weeks ago and everything was working perfectly. It survived a few reboots and whatnot with no problem. I moved it to another location on Saturday afternoon and, again, it booted up and worked fine. It was rebooted this morning and now the graphical login screen doesn't appear. Everything appears to load normally but once the text login screen

I've built some CentOS 5.5 64-bit systems straight off the DVD, full installs, and the Gnome screen lock (manually invoked or automatically via the gnome-screensaver) does not allow the user to unlock the screen. The only fix appears to be ctrl-alt-F<1 - 5> then have the user log into the tty session, type pkill -f gnome-screensaver, log out, then ctrl-alt-f7 to return to X. These

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > dominic adair-jones wrote: >> going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors i >> see. >> >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: >>> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +0000, dominic adair-jones wrote: >>>> Ok

This problem is so damn weird and frustrating that I thought it would be worthwhile to post this solution for anyone who may run into this situation in the future, since I was unable to find any mention of this after much searching, and no error messages appear in any logfiles that I could find either. This applies to a machine with a Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics

I have installed a minimal kvm host system. I wish to provide a graphical login on the host. To this end I performed the following group installs: yum groupinstall "general purpose desktop" "x windows system" I can login on the host system as root and then run 'startx' which gives me a desktop, sort of. The top menu bar with the various tool sets is missing as is

On 06/10/2015 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/10/2015 05:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> I get /home/<username> not found when it's there and setup with correct >> permissions -- well here I am using it in run level 5 just fine! > > Log in as root, and watch /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, and > /var/log/audit/audit.log while a "normal" user