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puter
Do you have a “login manager” (sddm, kdm, LightDM, etc)? That gives you a login screen.
Yes, sddm shows as running in ‘top’ output, but does not display a login screen.
Tright lightdm, but no login screen either, just cli.…… so try this next:
sudo apt install –reinstall sddm
Still the same.
I’m don’t see why I’m having these issues but it works for everyone else. None of the DE or login managers are working for me.
I tried debian with no gui and have been able to install fluxbox (with wdm) and kde (with sddm) without any issues.
I will continue my project with debian. I dont want to waste any more of anyones time on this.
Thank you all for your assistance, it is very much appreciated.
anticapitalista
Try not using failsafe boot
About setting up xserver-xorg-legacy. If you have a login manager you shouldn’t need it.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/startx-on-antix-base-and-full/
Do you have dbus-x11 installed?
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Brian Masinick
@puter: I hope that anticapitalista’s suggestion will help you, but yesterday afternoon, I listened to Dolphin Oracle’s simple presentation, where he took an older version of antiX ( I think it was 19.1), and he installed kde-standard, along with a couple of VM packages, since he was installing to a VM.
Others here have used antiX Base or Full and they’ve had very good results. I haven’t done it recently, but in days past, I can recall this:
On antiX, I would often take the typical installation and ADD either Xfce, KDE, or both, just to “experiment”. I never once had an issue with either of them. Same with what was “Simply MEPIS” at that point in time: it came, by default with KDE. I’d take one of those systems, install a DIFFERENT desktop environment, then REMOVE KDE and save the result. So with both antiX and MEPIS – (which has become MX Linux these days), I have installed different window managers, different desktop environments, and added my own backgrounds, thus creating my own personal variation or respin. People have been doing this for between 2-3 decades.
It’s likely that you are missing a couple of packages, or a few things incorrectly set in your environment; the other possibility is that you do not have enough space. I thought I read in one post that you have somewhere around 3-4 GB. Dolphin Oracle, in his video, clearly stated that he has remastered a few different desktops and with a couple of them he can “get by” with 8 GB, but with KDE, he stated that he needs 11-12 GB in order to be able to have enough “working space” for the desktop, plus a remastering space. If you don’t have that much, it may be another contributing factor to the issues that you have been facing.
If you don’t have enough disk space, you may be better off either learning the simple use cases of the small, simple, basic IceWM with the zzzFM file manager. It doesn’t have the KDE extras, that’s for sure, but it also runs very easily and well on some pretty old, minimal spec systems.
So IF you have 11-12 GB of available disk space, you can try adding KDE to antiX; otherwise it will be a difficult task, unless you can discover an effective way to replace or reuse in some other way. (You’re welcome to experiment; just make sure you have a safe place to go in case the entire experiment renders it all unusable. Personally, I always have other things to use when I try “risky” experiments!)
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