On Tuesday 03 July 2018 12:14:09 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > On 2018-07-03 11:09:21 William Morder wrote: > > Here you are presented with a choice of display managers, depending on > > what you have installed: > > > > kdm > > gdm > > lxdm > > slim > > tdm or tdm-trinity > > xfce > > What would be the difference between tdm and tdm-trinity? > > Leslie > No difference at all, except in name; I seem to recall that it is listed differently in some installations. You will forgive my memory, as it has been a while since I've used other systems (such as Kubuntu, etc.); I believe I am right about this, but maybe not. If not, somebody out there will please correct me! Right now I'm running Devuan Jessie with Trinity 14.0.5, and just ran both these commands: # dpkg-reconfigure tdm dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity ... but only the second one works, so I've commented out the other. The second line is probably right for anybody who has downloaded fairly recent updates. To double-check my memory, however, I just now ran sysv-rc-conf and among my display managers, kdm, slim tdm AND (get this!) tdm-trini$ [sic] comes up; but I only have the lines for tdm marked to start at boot. It could be that I only believe that I remember the two different variations because it is sort of duplicated in sysv-rc-conf; also, other display managers are simply gdm, kdm, lxdm, slim, etc. Only TDE's entry comes up as the somewhat redundant tdm-trinity. So I believe that the second choice is probably what you want; although I doubt that you would run into problems by running the other command. Either one or the other will work, but not both. In any case, before you reboot, you can check to see if you have other display managers installed or configured. The same command will work if you have another dm installed, e.g., dpkg-reconfigure kdm dpkg-reconfigure slim and so on; but not if you don't have them installed. In any case, you choose your display manager from the list, hit return, and when you reboot you ought to see the Trinity Display Manager. Sorry that this is such a long answer to what ought to be a simple question; but the apparent duplication of tdm and tdm-trinity in some places may be a little confusing. Bill