Huh...I genuinely didn't know startx did that. I was always under the impression that you needed a display manager to do that. Good to know. For startx, you just need a .xinitrc with this in it, at least this is how I do it exec orca & exec mate-session Those of you more knowledgable about .xinitrc than me...did I miss anything insanely obvious out? I just usually use a template file I got somewhere to switch out desktops however Also, if you log in from the default TTY1, it'd be ctrl+alt f1 to view the desktop and then ctrl+alt f2-f6 to get to various TTY and then ctrl+alt+f1 to get back to the desktop as well. On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:19:16AM +0100, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi John, > > I fail to see how not having lightdm installed cane prevent you to start Mate. > > Here (Slint, not Debian), after having selected Mate as desktop with the > session-chooser command, just typing startx starts Mate. > > Then from Mate just pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 through Ctrl+Alt+F6 make you switch one > of the consoles (tty2 through tty6), keeping Braille in all environments. > > You can also switch back to Mate pressing Alt+F7 and also switch to froma a > console to another one (number n) pressing Alt+Fn. > > Anyway you could post in the debian-accessibilty mailing list to get help on > Debian specific issues. > > Cheers, > Didier > -- > Didier Spaier > Slint maintainer > > Le 08/03/2022 à 12:31, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > I use Debian in command mode. Until about a year ago, when I booted up, lightdm would start in text mode and ask for user and password. It would then start Mate with Orca. I could use the GUI by pressing Alt+F7. Then it suddenly started setting the screen to not-text mode. > > To be able to use the machine in my primary uses I had to disable lightdm. This meant that I couldn't use Mate. I just switched to Windows for a GUI. How can I configure lightdm to not put the screen in grap;hics mode and to again ask for username and password in text mode where brltty can handle them. Then start the GUI in tty7. > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list