On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:14:51 -0400
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <rtellason@...> wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 August 2015 11:49:56 am Felix Miata wrote:
> > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. composed on 2015-08-12 10:05 (UTC-0400):
> > 
> > > Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 
> > > As of this point in time,  I find that if I log in as root in a text console,  ignoring
> > > the GUI login for the moment,  then I can "startx" and it will get me there.  But
> > > there's no obvious way to choose what desktop I want,  so even though I have
> > > several installed (TDE is coming soon!  :-)  I'm stuck in Xfce.
> > 
> > > Anybody know how to fix either of these things?
> > 
> > Man startx.
> 
> A front end to xinit,  it says.
> 
> I'm sure that the info I'm looking for has to be documented *somewhere*,  but I haven't found it yet...   :-(

Try creating a ~/.xinitrc for root with "exec starttde" inside (or try starttde's full path).  I 
don't know if the system will pick up your xrandr settings with that setup, though, 
since that's never been a concern for me (and I use a completely different distro anyway).

E. Liddell