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Re: cant get to desktop anymore

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On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote:
> <CTRL><ALT><F7> will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it could be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't selected or a desktop 'task' wasn't installed.
> 
> Console #7 is the standard console used for X11. Console #1 is the default console when there is no default X11 session.

That was true in wheezy.  It's not true in jessie.

In jessie, running with systemd by default, the display manager takes
over the *first* virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1).  The first console with
a getty is therefore Ctrl-Alt-F2.

Of course, if there is no display manager installed at all, then Ctrl-Alt-F1
should have a getty running on it once the system boots.  But as soon as
you run startx, X takes over the *first* console (not the seventh)
and you're right back to the same situation as if you had used a display
manager.

(I use startx on jessie, so I speak from direct personal experience,
tested right now.)

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cant get to desktop anymore bell canada <bellcanadardp@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 22:50 +0200
  Re: cant get to desktop anymore Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 00:10 +0200
    Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 02:00 +0200
      Re: cant get to desktop anymore "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-19 02:40 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-19 15:40 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 15:50 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 16:30 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 23:00 +0200
      Re: cant get to desktop anymore Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-21 22:40 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-21 23:00 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Zoltán Hermann <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 07:10 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 06:50 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 08:30 +0200
    Re: cant get to desktop anymore Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-09-19 03:50 +0200
      Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 23:10 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2016-09-20 18:30 +0200

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