X does not start for the main user, works for user2
by Herve5 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5F7ES)
I am on Debian testing, on a Lenovo P53 with an NVidia graphic card, on xfce.
(I know I shoundn't be on testing given my level, but I did this last year because at the time it seemed the only way to run the Nvidia card)
During the last system update, among lots of packages, there was a new set of Nvidia ones (and many other things). This resulted in my main user wrecking the windows manager (I hope this is the right vocabulary : no more window edges, no screen background, no way to move a window...)
In contrast, a backup 'user2', that I'm using now, just works fine.
So I imagined this was some hidden pref somewhere in user1 home that was broken -I don't know how.
But I tried diverse moves and changes from user2 to user1, with in principle the right chown -R along with them. All in all nothing worked, save that I'm probably more wrecked now than at the beginning...
Any advice on how to solve this, maybe comparing what with what betwen user1 and 2??
Thank you!!
Herve
(I know I shoundn't be on testing given my level, but I did this last year because at the time it seemed the only way to run the Nvidia card)
During the last system update, among lots of packages, there was a new set of Nvidia ones (and many other things). This resulted in my main user wrecking the windows manager (I hope this is the right vocabulary : no more window edges, no screen background, no way to move a window...)
In contrast, a backup 'user2', that I'm using now, just works fine.
So I imagined this was some hidden pref somewhere in user1 home that was broken -I don't know how.
But I tried diverse moves and changes from user2 to user1, with in principle the right chown -R along with them. All in all nothing worked, save that I'm probably more wrecked now than at the beginning...
Any advice on how to solve this, maybe comparing what with what betwen user1 and 2??
Thank you!!
Herve