On Friday 05 April 2019 13.58:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
> First is the tde desktop looks a bit strange.
>
> When I installed, because getting rid of gnome is such a pain in the ass,
> I chose xfce4 during the install, and although I've installed several
> hundred of the core trinity bits, I still have an xfce4 desktop.
>
> /etc/X11/default-display-manager says twm.  /etc/init.d has lightdm.
>
> I'm getting the tde login but am not getting tde.  And I can't run a root
> session in a Konsole, display 10 no perms.
>
> I guess thats more than two problems. Do I rip lightdm out by its hair
> with an rm to it in etc/init.d or what to actually get a tde x session
> running?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I'd say you're running xfce on tdm. At the login you should have a way to 
choose your session.

I usually manage to install tde/tdm, set tdm as display-manager, choose tde at 
login, then remove Gnome 3.

Thierry