[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

[Pete Hardie]

Oh, and X -configure crashes

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 17:38 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Or just run X -configure to build a config file.
>
> What package was fubarred? I run fedora 27/28 systems and have only had
> issues with packages from repos other than fedora and rpmfusion.
>
> On July 20, 2018 5:21:46 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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