On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:02:40AM -0500, mark wrote: > On 11/13/17 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > My guess is: you ran "startx". That starts a session as the user that > > runs "startx" > > Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. You know perfectly well that I'm > a professional sysadmin, and that I've been here for years. > > It's a Netbook. I yum groupinstalled xfce, created an > /etc/sysconfig/desktop, added a line in /etc/X11/prefdm to include xfce, > copying one of the other lines, and rebooted. It came in in runlevel 5, no > login. > > In other words, what I'd do with any other display manager. I believe that's the mistake you made, you told prefdm to start xfce instead of a display manager, which is what the prefdm upstart service starts. As far as I know, xfce doesn't include a display manager. Normally, you'd start xfce from gdm (since its part of the default desktop install) but you could always use xdm to do so as well. I believe you'll need to update your ~/.Xclients or ~/.xsession for per-user configs, or change the default in /etc/sysconfig/desktop. (It's been a couple years since I've touched a el6 desktop so I might be wrong here.) -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>