Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment
$> systemctl set-default graphical.target If this is already setup, and you can launch your DE with startx, check also that mate is the default DE with update-alternatives(8) or you can add the startx command in /etc/profile. Hope this helps. Le dim. 28 juin 2020 à 16:15, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> a écrit : > On 06/28/2020 08:39 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:21:29 -0500 > > Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > > >> The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. > >> Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the > >> installation of "recommended" packages. > >> > >> Therefore I did an install without *ANY* desktop environment. > >> [Used DVD1 of Debian 8.6, latest for which I had a physical DVD] > >> > >> I then did > >> apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment gparted > >> > >> On reboot the desktop did not appear. > >> > >> What is the forgotten command to automatically launch the desktop at > boot? > >> > >> TIA > > > > Did you install the X server and its depends? > > No, I had assumed that was a depends. OOOPS ;/ > > > Did you manually run startx? > > No ;} > > > I assume you boot to a terminal and log-in there. > > That's what happens. I had expected booting would yield the MATE desktop. > > > I did > apt-get --no-install-recommends install xorg > startx > > That yielded a MATE desktop with a minimalist's dream menu <grin> > > It does not yet boot to the MATE desktop automatically. > I've not yet investigated xorg's recommends. > I am reading https://wiki.debian.org/Xorg . > [Think I've found a typo, but need to follow the internal links to be > sure.] > > *Thank you* > > This septuagenarian does some things the hard way to gain education ;} > > > > > > > B > > > > > > > > > >
