On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 16:23 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/03/2017 02:45 PM, AV wrote > > You replied to Marmorstein, not to me :) I don't top post. > > Whoops! I just replied to the thread. Didn't pay attention to the > last > poster. My bad! (now flailing myself with wet linguini) > > > Strange that it works for you. > > Understand that normally I use Xfce. I simply did a > > dnf groupinstall "LXQt Desktop" > > then logged out of my Xfce session and logged in under an LXQt > session. It may be that my greeter, session manager or display > manager is different in this sort of scenario than you have, but it > works. Under Xfce, I use lightdm as my display manager and that may > still be the case under LXQt (I don't think the display manager gets > changed by simply installing a new desktop). > > IIRC, LXQt uses lxdm as the display manager by default and there are > postings about lxdm not updating utmp out there in Google-land. I > didn't > check to see what was running when I was in LXQt. Sorry...probably > should have. Sorry, Lxqt uses SDDM! (I don't know how stable SDDM is yet, I saw a lot of problems mentioned on the web). > > I just checked and the permissions for the file that "user" and "who" > rely on is: > > root@golem4 ~]# ls -l /var/run/utmp > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 1152 Aug 3 12:55 /var/run/utmp > > so you can see it got touched today (that is about the time I logged > back into Xfce after terminating the temporary LXQt session). Mine was touched to, same permissions. > > > I had just finished checking the session manager and its settings > > and didn't see anything untoward. But then I do not usually wrestle > > with these things so I might have missed something. > > I checked a bit, too, but I didn't see anything obvious that would > relate to that other than the aforementioned issues with lxdm versus > lightdm. > > > I will now do a fresh install on another machine > > and see if that works and then compare to see what happened. > > Yeah, I'm curious to know what's what. See the mail I posted before this one. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 > - > - > - > - Whoever said "Money can't buy happiness" obviously never had > any - > - money! > - > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
