<p>On Jul 4, 2012 11:35 AM, "Joshua O'Leary" <<a href="mailto:joshua.oleary@btinternet.com">joshua.oleary@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Is gdm installed aswell? Maybe they are starting at the same time (would be unusual but may have happened on a corrupted system), in which case you could try removing gdm.</p>
<p>It wasn't completely installed, but purging it did not solve the issue.</p>
<p>> Also, try another display manager such as lxdm or xdm and see if they work properly. </p>
<p>I'm not familiar with either one - would they know to bring up my xfce sessions?</p>
<p>I have this strange expectation that the distro should not need this kibd of alteration and/or debugging just to work more or less out of the box.... ;-)</p>
<p>> Does running startx from a logged in tty work?<br>
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<p>Never tried that, but the man page leaves too much out for experimentation on my work production desktop. Since adding the restart to my /etc/rc.local works, I'll probably leave it at that.</p>
<p>Klunky, but it works.</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
<p>MR<br>
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