Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk):
I think X made this change several years/Debian distributions ago.
Just some clarification for off-list replies:
http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/Xorg.1.html
The special combinations of key presses recognized directly by Xorg
are:
On 2/8/15, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
songbird wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
...
Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If
default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the
Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Try this: Reboot. When you get the black screen, hit CTL-ALT-BKSPC
simultaneously. This should shutdown the X-Server and drop you to
a terminal. If it doesn't, post back here with the details. This
should be a root
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. This
is an Ubuntu page but it documents it.
Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another improvement.
That change was introduced in Debian in Squeeze 6. No changes for
Jessie on
Thomas H. George wrote:
I created the display problem. The HP box has only vga, no hdmi so I
experimented with the settings and chose an incompatable one resulting
in a black screen. I created a second user, tom2, and the display opened
normally for tom2.
That proves that the problem was
On 02/09/2015 02:05 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Try this: Reboot. When you get the black screen, hit CTL-ALT-BKSPC
simultaneously. This should shutdown the X-Server and drop you to
a terminal. If it doesn't, post back here with the details. This
should be a root terminal.
David, you just solved an unrelated problem I had where my keyboard
settings inside XFCE weren't being respected. I wondered why...
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:20 PM, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk
wrote:
Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com):
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote:
Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com):
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote:
Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now. This
is an Ubuntu page but it documents it.
Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another improvement.
Why do these people need to fix
Patrick Bartek wrote:
That's odd. Works on my Wheezy 7 64-bit install. Always has. Used it
numerous times during the initial X set-up/config/shakedown. I didn't
manually enable it either. Of course, my system isn't stock.
Perhaps you have it configured that way?
$ grep XKBOPTIONS
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Note that X now by default disables control-alt-backspace now.
This is an Ubuntu page but it documents it.
Right. I forgot. You're using Jessie. Another improvement.
That change was introduced in
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015, Bob Proulx wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
That's odd. Works on my Wheezy 7 64-bit install. Always has.
Used it numerous times during the initial X
set-up/config/shakedown. I didn't manually enable it either. Of
course, my system isn't stock.
Perhaps you have it
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Thomas H. George wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to
xdm. When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
What display problems? You don't say exactly. Also. What's the specs
on your system? How old is
Thomas H. George wrote:
...
Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If
default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the
Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is successful
to the gnome desktop. Tried to switch users but could not.
On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm.
When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed.
Looked for solution in man
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm.
When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
songbird wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
...
Following previous suggestions installed both xdm and kdm. If
default-display-manager is set to xdm when xdm is started I get the
Debian login window and can only login as root. The login is successful
to the gnome desktop. Tried to switch
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:44:21AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Thomas H. George wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to
xdm. When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
What display problems? You
On 02/07/2015 09:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
So now when people say gdm3 doesn't start I wonder if it really means
that X isn't starting? Maybe.
Bob, I just had that happen to me. It failed to start lightdm. so in
text mode, as logged in root user, I re-installed lightdm :
apt-get install
Ric Moore wrote:
Bob, I just had that happen to me. It failed to start lightdm. so in text
mode, as logged in root user, I re-installed lightdm :
apt-get install --reinstall lightdm
Why is everyone having troubles with X all of a sudden?
Then I got an error that there was a syntax error in
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Try this: Reboot. When you get the black screen, hit CTL-ALT-BKSPC
simultaneously. This should shutdown the X-Server and drop you to
a terminal. If it doesn't, post back here with the details. This
should be a root terminal. Read the output on the screen as to what
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:44:21AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Thomas H. George wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to
xdm. When this didn't work I tried to
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm.
When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed.
Looked for solution in man systemctl, found reset-failed command. Tried
systemctl reset-failed gdm.service
On Feb 7, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
Any suggestions?
Have you tried logging in to the terminal and typing startx? If that gets you
a Gnome GUI, Gnome is (probably) OK, and you can just remove the GUI starters
and reinstall the one for Gnome. If not, your
Thomas H. George wrote:
...
What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl
commands?
Any suggestions?
i'd go to single user mode and use:
apt-get purge gdm3 xdm
and then try to install gdm3 again and see how that goes...
songbird
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 10:02:15PM +, Joe wrote:
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:37:23 -0500
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to
xdm. When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
Thomas H. George wrote:
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm.
When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
What was the display problem?
problem not fixed.
What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl
commands?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:37:23 -0500
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
OK, my fault.
A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to
xdm. When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed.
Looked for solution
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