On Tuesday 31 December 2019 18:26:24 Felix Miata wrote:

> Gene Heskett composed on 2019-12-31 13:26 (UTC-0500):
> > Thanks for any help. debian stretch on amd64 if that helps.
>
> 1-Make sure tdm-trinity is installed and configured.
>
> 2-Purge lightdm, sddm, kdm, gdm and any other dm you can find besides
> tdm.

Did that, now the dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity kills the xsession and 
restarts xfce4 w/o presenting a choice menu, it just restartx xfce4
And now I've got 10 minutes or more getting everything restarted. grrr.
>
> 3-Make sure /etc/X11/default-display-manager exists and contains
> /opt/trinity/bin/tdm.

It exists, and does contain the above.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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