On Tuesday 31 December 2019 10:26:17 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I updated tde about 2 hours ago, 300+ files.
>
> Its totally fscked, defaulting to xfce4 and nothing but a tiny terminal
> works. But that terminal is enough to get more started.
>
> Can't find kmail from the xfce4 menu but kmail is what it reports
> it cannot find so $path is screwed.
>
> I've gone single and tried to relink default-display back
> to /opt/trinity/bin/tdm, failed. Tried to reset it in /etc/default,
> failed. Tried just about everthiing including re-installing the
> trinty-base & twm/tdm stuffs. no luck
>
> I finally found /opt/trinity/bin/kmail and have it running but no clue if
> I can send this.
>
> How in tuncket do I restore my default desktop to tde now??? I
> asccidently touched the folder icon, it opened a huge requester asnd
> froze everthing but gkrellm which I had found and started so I could see
> if the robots were DDOSing me, so I had to re-start it with the front
> panel reset button.
>
> I likely have the whole thing to fix as right now its cycleing back and
> forth as its starting x with a tde login but clears that screen and
> eventually starts xfce4. And here come the damned bots, so I gotta get
> iptables running.
>
> Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I also had some glitches. When I update Trinity with a big load of new 
packages, somehow it sets my login and stuff to KDE or maybe Gnome (I don't 
recognize them any more), but after login still opens in my TDE; however, the 
login security feature disappears (whatever it's called), and sometimes I end 
up having to reinstall everything with new packages just to get everything 
back to normal. This has been a recurring bug, or maybe more than a bug; at 
any rate, it bugs me a whole lot. 

Have you tried "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity"?

When I do this, I find that my default desktop has been changed, apparently to 
KDE, even though I didn't install anything KDE. 

Bill