[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 17:56:02 EDT 2018


I don't find openbox on my system. It's been long enough that I've
forgotten all the names

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 17:21 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> 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
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
>
>
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