Am Sonntag, 29. März 2015 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > Help! I got myself in a mess after updating. The usual, reverting to lightdm > and LXDE. Which mess I made worse. Well, I couldn't really see what I was > doing. So I purged lightdm. No better. So I purged LXDE. No better. So I > purged then installed TDE. > > aptitude purge tde-trinity > aptitude install tde-trinity > (The second as per > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions ) > > Nothing much happened. Only one package was touched. > > <aptitude show> says that **LXDE is not installed** and that TDE is installed. > It says that lightdm is not installed. It says that tdm-trinity is > installed. > > But when I boot up it is LXDE that launches, bypassing any dm. Yes, I know. > That sounds totally mad. But I have repeatedly checked. I am flummoxed. > > Reporting real error messages is terribly difficult because I haven't got LXDE > set up so that I can see it well, and the virtual terminals are impossible. > > Wiping and reinstalling would be the easiest thing to do, and also the > quickest. But it would also be defeatist. Has anyone any other ideas? > > Thanks, > Lisi > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Hi Lisi! Assuming yout TDE-Installation is (almost) sane, please do from the commandline (not terminal in X11): # aptitude install tdm-trinity # dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity # reboot Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office@...