Re: Start Lubuntu GUI from command line
No lightdm service is not running for sure.
I would be happy to debug the problem if you or someone else helps me how to do it. So far, googling for 2 days got me no where.
"echo $DISPLAY" returns me nothing but then again this might be normal when you are on the text mode. I don't know that much.
Originally Posted by
steeldriver
AFAIK SysV-style runlevels are not relevant in Ubuntu
I would focus on finding out why lxsession says it can't open the display - is lightdm perhaps still running? if so you will need to kill it first e.g. (after logging in at one of the CLI virtual terminals as your normal user)
Code:
sudo service lightdm stop
lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE
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