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.
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