Shot in the dark - what happens if you  disable gdm, then use a tty to start X yourself, effectively bypassing gdm?

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From: wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org <wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org> on behalf of Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:13:30 AM
To: Worcester Linux Users Group
Subject: [Wlug] Kali Linux/GDM3 display manager

 

I'm running Kali, which is based on Debian.  Recently, after some updates, the computer would only boot to a text prompt; no GUI.  I found that, somehow, I had a more recent version of a Gstreamer-plugins library than GDM3 could run on.  I removed the library, then re-installed GDM3, letting it choose whatever libraries it depended on.  That worked, to a point.  It boots to the GUI now, and gives me a login prompt.  I enter my username and password successfully, but then I get a solid-color background, a mouse cursor, and nothing else; no icons, no status bars, no menus, no apparent response to mouse clicks.

My guess is I still need to re-install something else that runs on top of the display manager, but I don't know what.  Any ideas?

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