On 2020-06-22 14:20:38 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2020 16:47:19 Klaus Cook wrote: > > I am 80 years old and retired after a career in Systems programming and > > consulting, but I� am a complete novice when it comes to Linux. I have > > decided to try Ubuntu 20.04 and as part of the learning process I decided > > to install the Trinity Desktop Environment. > > > > After struggling through the installation I finally was able to get the > > installation to run without errors, however, the Desktop does not > > activate when logging into Ubuntu. Also, Trinity is not listed in the > > "sessions" list on the log in page. > > > > 1. Is there anyway to check if the installation was completed correctly? > > > > 2. How do I activate the desktop if the installation was correct? > > > > Thank you, > > Klaus Cook > > Houston, TX > > If the Trinity desktop is already installed, open a shell (or console, or > konsole ...), and run sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity. Just in case you > are a total n00b, sudo means that you will need root privileges, meaning > your password. > > For some reason, tdm-trinity does not get activated as your default > desktop, if you have other desktops installed (such as Gnome or KDE Plasma, > etc.). This is a problem also in OpenSuSE, which uses update-alternatives to manage the various *dm settings. When I upgraded to 14.0.8-1 tdm disappeared from the list of possible DMs in the login menu. Manual configuration of update-alternatives is difficult to understand, and it would be really nice if the OpenSuSE packager could add a post-installation script to the trinity-tdm RPM package to do this? Leslie > > I did not like exegnulinux, myself. (Sorry, Nik!) It *seemed* to complete > the installation, but I never could get it to boot into the desktop. It > would just hang in boot process, and nothing happened. There is also Q4OS > (I think that's the name), which is pretty good, but bugged me in a lot of > little ways. I would maybe try out AntiX, as you can get that with TDE > installed, I seem to recall; it is a small and very fast distro. But I > would only recommend it for laptops, not desktops with more than a single > internal hard drive. > > Bill > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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