An experiment in backup

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:


>> Are you using a DM?
>
> A what? Xubuntu uses xfce4 if that answers the question.

DM = display manager

On Ubuntu, lightdm is the default DM.


>> Are you using a WM or a DE?
>
> A what?

WM = window manager

DE = desktop environment; in your case XFCE


>> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors.
>
> Xorg logs seem normal
> I don't see any xsessions-errors file

~/.xsessions-errors


>> Can you launch X after logging in to the console?
>
> I don't know how.

You can check that the basic functionality of X is OK with
xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp vt01
(assuming that you're on tty1 when launching X)

Otherwise, you can start X with
xinit [...]
startx [...]
service lightdm [re]start