Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Need help with a laptop that will only run Plasma/Wayland Message-ID : <6a6e3f5f-c7c2-4d62-91d3-d3c8f696f868@marcchamberlin.com> Date & Time: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:59:51 -0700 [MC] == Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: MC> On 8/14/24 19:18, Masaru Nomiya wrote: MN> > Please set this in your ~/.bashrc MN> > export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:0}" MN> > This is a important setting. MC> Hi Masaru Nomiya, just got the laptop back to try out your incantation, sorry MC> for the delay. Actually that made things worse, after putting it MC> in my .bashrc file (at the end) I could no longer bring up either MC> the Wayland nor the X11 desktop. After entering my login MC> credentials both desktops simply keep returning to the login MC> screen and prompting me to again put in my login credentials. MC> I had to login as root, using Wayland to change my .bashrc file MC> back, and even there I encountered difficulties using editors MC> like emacs, xemacs, kate etc. Anything that tried to launch a new MC> window failed. So I resorted to using ed, probably could have MC> used vi if I knew how to but my fingers are trained on emacs. I was curious about Wayland. As I have never used Wayland. BTW, I strongly advise you to install other DE's such as twm, etc. because of these possible problems. I have installed xfce and Gnome for build checking. And, I also recommend that you master the use of vim. I'm also an Emacs user, but I use vim for terminal processing. The startup is, vim .bashrc To enter edit mode, shift+i After editing, press Esc, then type ":" and wq to save your edits, or q to not save them, and press enter. Anyway, first of all, have't you left a misconfigured config (= Xorg.conf or vesa.conf), have you? I'm curious about your email regarding 2 displys..... If not, please show the log file obtained as follows; 1. Ctrl+Alt+F1 2. login as root 3. execute # init 3 4. Ctrl+Alt+F2 5. login as user (NOT as root) 6. write in ~/.bash_profile with vim export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:0}" 7. execute $ startplasma-x11 > log 2>&1 Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Microsoft is overhauling its cybersecurity strategy, called the Secure Future Initiative, to incorporate key security features into its core set of technology platforms and cloud services. " -- Microsoft overhauls cyber strategy to finally embrace security by default --