Everyone:
I thought I'd start a new thread, just to let everyone know I had a
solution to the problem of F24 starting with a command-line login, not
the graphical login I'd been used to.
I'll pass along these two commands, which come from Garry T. Williams:
sudo systemctl --force enable sddm.service
sudo systemctl start sddm.service
Run the second program only if you haven't started X already. If you
have, do a restart.
I had found sddm.service disabled on my setup. Maybe it always was, and
I never gave it a second's thought.
Anyway, F24 now starts as it should. And one thing I got back, is a
full-sized "firetray" icon for either Firefox or Thunderbird. The latter
is important: I now have back an accurate count of my unread messages,
and can make Thunderbird disappear and reappear at will. Firefox,
also--but Firefox gives me no other indicators.
Thus far, aside from a very old off-line password manager that no one
has maintained since F12, everything works as I'm used to seeing it
work. I'm running KDE, and now I get a complete KDE login, and can
directly select a user account, type in a password, and sign in, exactly
as I do with Windows. (WinDoze?)
I must say this dnf system upgrade program works better than I
anticipated. And much better than fedup ever did. It shows me my
progress in a way I can understand.
Thanks to the development team, and to all of you for your helpful
suggestion.
Temlakos
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