On Mon 29 Jun 2020 at 08:52:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/29/2020 07:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:15:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > That manpage was intriguing, if not educational. I went searching > > > for "update-alternatives tutorials". They all referenced Ubuntu and > > > each covered only one instance. > > > > FWIW, update-alternatives isn't (directly) related to the other > > topics upstream. > > > > It's intended to manage groups of workalike "applications", for example > > bash, dash, etc. as alternatives to sh, or vim, elvis as alternatives > > for vi. > > > > It does so by juggling symlinks somewhere in /etc/alternatives. It's > > smart enough to also juggle the relevant man pages, so that if you, > > e.g. use "vim" for "vi", "man vi" will show you the vim man page. > > > > > I'm looking for something that aims to answer "What can > > > update-alternatives do for me today?". IOW the manpage gives fine > > > details but no sense of perspective. > > > > See "man update-alternatives", or this entry [1] in the Debian > > wiki. > > > > It's a Debian-specific thing. > > > > What alternatives does for you? Mostly it does its job silently, > > without complaining ;-) > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives > > That is the type of page I was looking for. I think the links there will be > valuable. > > There is a "broken link" under "See Also" > Clicking on [ http://www.debian-administration.org/article/91 ] yields: > > $VAR1 = \'Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket > > \'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock\' (111 "Connection refused") at > > ../lib/Singleton/DBI.pm line 95. '; > > [ https://debian-administration.org/ ] says: > > This site is now 100% read-only, and retired. > > This site is going to go read-only > > Posted by Steve on Sun 10 Sep 2017 at 07:02 > > Tags: meta, site news > > > > This site was born in late September 2004, and has now reached 13 years of > > age > > and that seems to be a fitting time to stop. > > I believe a good link would be > [ > https://web.archive.org/web/20140406045047/http://www.debian-administration.org/article/91/ > ] > > Even though anyone can modify a wiki, I don't know enough about the topic to > be comfortable doing it.
Mended with https://debian-administration.org/article/91/Using_the_Debian_alternatives_system -- Brian. > > > > >