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Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Thomas Amm wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:49:33 +0100 (CET)
> Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce.  Gnome is also installed.  The
>> login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the
>> "greeter" screen too long, then something intervenes and puts the two
>> monitors into a sleep mode (iiyama E1700S orange light).  I cannot
>> find any key combination which wakes up gdm3.
>
> I'd try simply replacing GDM with lightdm. Just a workaround, but the
> oroginal problem might by very hard to solve.

In file /etc/X11/default-display-manager I replaced /usr/sbin/gdm3 with 
/usr/sbin/lightdm and restarted the box. It got as far as run level 5 but 
with no display manager. journalctl reports that the "Gnome display 
Manager" could not be started, despite five attempts.

Roger

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Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2017-12-20 12:00 +0100
  Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors Thomas Amm <debili@open-email.net> - 2017-12-20 15:50 +0100
    Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2017-12-21 13:10 +0100
  Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-20 16:40 +0100
    Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2017-12-21 13:30 +0100
      Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-21 19:50 +0100

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