Can't start from ligntdm

ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Sat Nov 2 13:10:07 CET 2024


On 11/2/24 02:14, Piscium wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 15:42, Ивалин <ivalin1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah probabbly something wrong with your lightdm config or Xsession . Considering everything in Xsession is considered part of the session so whenever something crashes the session crashes, I would guess it is a problem of 1 of the scripts it sources or the script itself. Lightdm keeps session logs in /var/log/lightdm/x-*.log so you should get some info on what goes wrong.
> 
> Some years ago I had an obscure issue with environment variables. It
> turned out that lightdm was directly or indirectly causing one of the
> dot files to be called in a way that I did not expected. I decided to
> stop using display managers altogether and, like in fairy tales, I
> have been happy ever since! :-)
> It was dead easy to get rid of the display manager, I just followed
> the instructions in the Arch wiki.

With Fedora, it was
# dnf remove lightdm*

If you ever decide to go back to a display manager,
try out lxdm.  It ain't real pretty , but it works.
And NO DRAMA!


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