On Tue, 3 Nov 2026 15:29:51 -0800 Donald MacDougall <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ran it and. Must have forgotten to post the result. Here it is: > > dmacdoug@Acer-Laptop:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" > tty > dmacdoug@Acer-Laptop:~$ > > Probably obvious since X11 isn't running. Well, that's interesting. I was about to suggest that you SSH into the machine while XFCE was running and run that command. So I SSHed from a machine running XFCE to a machine that doesn't have X on it at all. I then got: charles@issola:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE tty charles@issola:~$ So I tried SSHing into a machine that XFCE running. Same results. So SSHing into your machine only tells you about the SSH connection, not what is running on the machine's display. > Maybe I should uninstall XFCE and just go back to X11. I doubt that will solve your problem, for reasons Greg just explained. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
