Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 07:38 PM, David wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for something that aims to answer "What can update-alternatives do for me today?". IOW the manpage gives fine details but no sense of perspective. Have a read of this page [1] about half-way

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread David
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for something that aims to answer "What can > update-alternatives do for me today?". IOW the manpage gives fine > details but no sense of perspective. Have a read of this page [1] about half-way down under the heading: "DEBIAN

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 29 Jun, 2020 at 10:21:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 09:12 AM, davidson wrote: [...] > > Have you reviewed any notes regarding what it did for you yesterday? > > Yesterday's problems stemmed from installing mate-desktop-environment rather > than task-mate-desktop ;{

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Brian
On Mon 29 Jun 2020 at 10:21:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 09:12 AM, davidson wrote: [...] > > Have you reviewed any notes regarding what it did for you yesterday? > > Yesterday's problems stemmed from installing mate-desktop-environment rather > than task-mate-desktop ;{ > >

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 09:29 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 29 Jun 2020 at 08:52:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/29/2020 07:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:15:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, If you want the desktop

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 09:12 AM, davidson wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment   $> systemctl set-default

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Brian
On Mon 29 Jun 2020 at 08:52:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 07:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:15:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > If you want the desktop environment to

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread davidson
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment $> systemctl set-default graphical.target If this is already setup, and

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 07:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:15:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:15:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: > >Hello, > > > >If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that > >systemd is configured to run in graphical environment > > > > $> systemctl set-default

update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment $> systemctl set-default graphical.target If this is already setup, and you can launch your DE with startx, check