Nov 3, 2026 4:23:20 PM Charles Curley <[email protected]>: > > 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. > Thanks for doing that for me, I'd have to commandeer my wife's computer to do it. I see that it probably wouldn't accomplish much.
>> Maybe I should uninstall XFCE and just go back to X11. > > I doubt that will solve your problem, for reasons Greg just explained. > -- Don
