On Friday 05 April 2019 04:58:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
> First is the tde desktop looks a bit strange.
>
> When I installed, because getting rid of gnome is such a pain in the ass,
> I chose xfce4 during the install, and although I've installed several
> hundred of the core trinity bits, I still have an xfce4 desktop.

Try MATE instead. MATE is enough like TDE, KDE, etc., that I found it the 
next-best thing to having TDE installed (or at least available in the menu 
choices when running tasksel ... ). 

I was able to do all the necessary intermediate stuff (i.e., between first 
installation and then actually running TDE). 

When you need to install all those other packages, including Trinity's, MATE 
is better than XFCE or even LXDE as a desktop. I've also used the newer KDE, 
which I've heavily modified to make it behave better, but MATE is still my 
choice for when I am stuck in that stage of installation or rebuilding a 
system. 

Bill


>
> /etc/X11/default-display-manager says twm.  /etc/init.d has lightdm.
>
> I'm getting the tde login but am not getting tde.  And I can't run a root
> session in a Konsole, display 10 no perms.
>
> I guess thats more than two problems. Do I rip lightdm out by its hair
> with an rm to it in etc/init.d or what to actually get a tde x session
> running?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

If you don't already run Devuan, I'd suggest giving it a try, as I found most 
of my problems quickly went away when I got rid of systemd; but after trying 
several ways of installing Debian, then getting rid of systemd and using 
instead sysvinit, I found it much less bother just to start with Devuan and 
never touch systemd at all. Then *poof* almost like magic (because it took a 
few more *poofs* yet), my problems practically all vanished. 

Bill