[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:13:53 -0400
Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> A cry for help.
> Was updating this evening, and dnf said there was one package with a
> conflict and gave dnf options to resolve it. I followed that and
> halfway through the box reset, and now I can't get it back to
> graphical mode. Systemd has made it harder for me to diagnose, so the
> batsignal is lit

Try using startx to start X. Note you must have a ~/.xinitrc file for
this to work. Here's my (rather overly complex) ~/.xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
xrdb -load /home/slitt/.Xdefaults
boolean false exec /usr/bin/openbox-session

Let us know whether this works.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt