How does Trisquel Mini work?

That has happened to me, too, with many of my computers. I am able to install the package "trisquel-mini", (With LXDE desktop environment) though.

Try this https://trisquel.info/en/forum/graphics-driver-problem-trisquel-mini#comment-37120

This similar issue occurs to me with trisquel-mini and parabola-lxde I
trying to resolve this issue too.

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Sachin Dey

On 27/09/2013 05:13 AM, name at domain wrote:
> When I boot "normal" Trisquel, everything works graphically. When I
> boot Trisquel Mini, I get a CLI! Does this mean my computer is not
> compatible with Mini, or do I need to learn some commands?

I would try to start X from the terminal:
$ startx

If it works, then LXDM probably is the culprit. You can install Trisquel's display manager:
$ sudo apt-get install gdm

Upgrade your BIOS.

I am trying the Mini 6.0 live CD.

Same problem here - the CD boots into a CLI on my DELL Latitude E6500.

I tried "startx" (no such program seems to exist out-of-the-box), "lscpi" (doesn't exist either) and trying to "sudo apt-get install gdm" fails with errors about inability to connect to one of the repositories.

I found a "startlxde" program, but that (as most other programs starting with x) fail with something like "can't use DISPLAY".

On an ancient IBM ThinkPad A21m however, the same live CD boots straight into the GUI.

Note that I'm a GNU/Linux noob (coming from Windows) and need help with the basics here... do I need to install Xinit (how would I do that?) as mentioned in this forum entry: http://trisquel.info/en/forum/startx-gui-lxdm ?

To
install X11,
sudo apt-get install xinit xorg --no-install-recommends

You can omit the '--no-install-recommends' option, if you want.
But i'm assuming you installed Trisquel-mini for the reason of not
having all those extra unecessary applications.

execute:
xinit

X11 might not permit you to launch unless you're
root.
In that case, you should not run it as
root.
Instead you must edit the file: /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.
Edit the variable 'allowed_users' to anybody.

allowed_users=anybody

Now you can launch X as a normal user.

However, when you launch it now there will be no window manager or
desktop environment.

Install your preferred window manager/desktop environment using apt-get
install "your_desktop/windowmanager"

Create the file ~/.xinitrc.
In this file you can specify programs to launch when X11 launches.
Additionally, X11 closes whenever this file is done executing.

So to keep X11 running, you need to execute at least one application
that you expect to be running your entire x11 session. This program is
usually the window manager.
This can be specified like this(at the last line in ~/.xinitrc):
exec window_manager.

example of a ~/.xinitrc file:

#!/bin/bash
feh --bg-fill ~/Images/background.png #Wallpaper
xterm & #Open up a terminal as a background process
exec openbox #When this program closes, X11 exits

Have you tried the "sudo lxdm" command?

If you selected to install "trisquel-mini-desktop"(or something similar), but you do not boot into lxde.
You could try: sudo service lxdm start

Thanks a lot, "sudo lxdm" worked and got me into graphical mode. Haven't tried "sudo service lxdm start", what would be the difference?

As sebelius pointed out (https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-does-trisquel-mini-work#comment-48064) about starting X11 as root being unsafe, does the same apply to lxdm? If yes, what to do to make it safe (equivalent of editing Xwrapper.config and starting as normal user)?

Thanks for your generous support!

I had that problem. You have to do sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini