On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:51:01 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote:

> Nick Koretsky composed on 2015-09-29 07:01 (UTC+0300):
> 
> > On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 23:01:22 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> Fresh minimal HTTP Mageia 5 installation today, followed by minimalist TDE
> >> installation attempt using urpmi.
> 
> >> Unless startx has /opt/trinity/bin/starttde appended, desktop briefly
> >> paints, then back to vtty from which started. If started from greeter,
> >> TDE session is OK, though many items are missing from systemsettings,
> >> e.g. TDE components, required to reach session manager.
> 
> > I am not familiar with mageia, but this
> 
> >> /etc/X11/Xsession: line 185: /usr/bin/xsm: No such file or directory
> 
> > clearly indicates you are missing significant part of Xorg. 
> 
> Clearly files are missing. Significant I'm not sure about, since TDE works
> just fine loaded via TDM. MCC, rpm and urpmq seem unable to find me a package
> that provides that file, or xclock or xvt or xsm.

"xsm" stands for "X Session Manager".  "xvt" is a minimal terminal application, 
and "xclock" is a clock.  My distro keeps them on-hand for testing and use with 
systems that have an X server and a bare WM, rather than a full desktop 
environment.  You shouldn't need to have them installed to run TDE, so these
warnings are a red herring.

Do you have anything in .xinitrc?

E. Liddell