startx has worked for me on Fedora 27, and it did start the same desktop as what graphical -> login as same user started. On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 4:18 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 18:12 -0700, solarflow99 wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 2:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 20:09 -0700, solarflow99 wrote: >> > > so it seems only lightdm works, using sddm just gives the black screen >> > >> > with >> > > a mouse pointer. Going back to using multi-user.target, what is the >> > > correct way to start x-windows now? I always used startx. >> > > I also see display-manager.service was enabled, that didn't seem to ever >> > > help though. >> > >> > [Please don't top-post] >> > >> > startx dates from the early days of X11. I'm sure some people still >> > find a use for it, but the usual setup just boots into the X >> > environment, normally via a desktop manager. Did you try just >> > rebooting? >> > >> > >> >> ya, but i'm still interested to run X while still being in >> multi-user.target instead of graphical, surely there is a way to do that >> still isn't there? > > Of course, and you're already doing it, i.e. you *are* running X from > the console, but running X just means 'run the X11 server with its > default startup script'. It doesn't mean 'run my favourite desktop > environment'. Most DEs have their own customised version of startx > which do the work for you, e.g. startkde on my system is a fairly > elaborate script that sets up all sorts of things besides the X server. > Presumably your DE will have something similar, but if not you'll have > to create it. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/DIHLL7B3CAUL6D7Y4UOKL3CULVYYTWJH/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/IMXXARINWF6CXTMOV2KQKFRHKWLPGBUB/
