Before i reinstalled GDM3, bash wasn't even recognizing startx as a valid command. I haven't tried again since reinstalling GDM3. Maybe I'll try that after i finish in the kitchen. On Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 3:54 PM Krichevsky, Nicholas Jacob < njkrichevsky@wpi.edu> wrote:

Shot in the dark - what happens if you disable gdm, then use a tty to start X yourself, effectively bypassing gdm? ------------------------------ *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? _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug