[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 17:37:52 EDT 2018


Or just run X -configure to build a config file.

What package was fubarred? I run fedora 27/28 systems and have only had issues with packages from repos other than fedora and rpmfusion.

On July 20, 2018 5:21:46 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:13:53 -0400
>Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> A cry for help.
>> Was updating this evening, and dnf said there was one package with a
>> conflict and gave dnf options to resolve it. I followed that and
>> halfway through the box reset, and now I can't get it back to
>> graphical mode. Systemd has made it harder for me to diagnose, so the
>> batsignal is lit
>
>Try using startx to start X. Note you must have a ~/.xinitrc file for
>this to work. Here's my (rather overly complex) ~/.xinitrc:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>xrdb -load /home/slitt/.Xdefaults
>boolean false exec /usr/bin/openbox-session
>
>Let us know whether this works.
>
>SteveT
>
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