** (process:1893): WARNING **: 12:57:34.553: Failed to open CK session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files

I get this warning also, so it should not be the cause of problems.

Something I do see in your lightdm.log thats different from mine, an excerpt from my log:

[+0.74s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.74s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.77s] WARNING: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
[+0.77s] DEBUG: Loading user config from /etc/lightdm/users.conf
[+1.07s] DEBUG: User dxrobertson added
[+1.07s] DEBUG: posix_spawn avoided (automatic reaping requested) (fd close requested) 

And then this is different, from my log:

[+4.79s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+6.29s] DEBUG: Greeter connected version=1.26.0 api=1 resettable=false
[+7.97s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for dxrobertson
[+7.97s] DEBUG: Session pid=2405: Started with service 'lightdm', username 'dxrobertson'
[+8.06s] DEBUG: Session pid=2405: Got 1 message(s) from PAM
[+8.06s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
[+11.49s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+11.54s] DEBUG: Session pid=2405: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+11.54s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user dxrobertson: Success
[+11.54s] DEBUG: User dxrobertson authorized
[+11.55s] DEBUG: Greeter sets language en_US.utf8
[+11.59s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session lxqt

I dont know, maybe they are different because you have never actually performed a login.

Do you have a symlink in /etc/alternatives/lightdm-greeter that points to /usr/share/xgreeters/lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop?

As far as getting to a console, can you <CTRL><ALT>F2 to get to a terminal console?  Then it would be <CTRL><ALT>F7 to get back to gui/lightdm.

Master guitarist John McLaughlin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmM2qXDS9wc

This is from the album Love Devotion Surrender that John McLaughlin and Santana produced.

I had bounced back and forth between LXDE and XFCE for years, then at some point LXDE became frozen in time; so XFCE has been desktop of choice ever since.  Recently, I had noticed I was having trouble interfacing with GTK based apps; mainly with scrolling. I seem to be always fighting the interface to get done what I need to do.  Frustration set in, so decided to  give an old friend LXDE, now LXQT at try.  I find QT interface more intuitive and clean, for me at least.  Give it try!

Recently switched over to LXQT.  Running all Beowulf and recent LXQT 0.14 from Unstable.  Very Happy with LXQT progress.

https://i.imgur.com/aO1Rpqm.jpg

Kool. 

Didnt use emacs, but my particular icon setting (moka); yes- better.

Now, can you tell me how to change Synaptic scrolling to make it actually usable?  I dont care for the gtk scrolling functionality of clicking on the scroll area and having the scroll advance in regards to where you click, instead of a "page".  And worse in regards to Synaptic; the right-click into the scroll area doesnt scroll-page as it should, but scrolls at some ridiculously irritating slow pace; useless!  I have to click into the package display and use arrow keys to scroll in Synaptic to get work done.

downloaded saved, like this - thanks!

I have always been able to atleast disable pulseaudio, and use basic alsa and sound play and record work fine.

What I normally do to disable pulse:
edit /etc/pulse/client.conf:
set autospawn = no
remove any <home>/.config/pulse that exists
Not sure about KDE, but there is probably an entry for pulse to auto startup (somewhere in session?); disable this.
reboot.

Hopefully now running without pulse.
Play some sound.
Enter alsamixer in a terminal and use this as your mixer.  You may have to press F6 and set your sound card to the "actual" sound card instead of "default".  Other things to do in alsamixer are to set the volume levels.  Make sure no "MM" at the bottom, thats mute; hit M to unmute.

To remove pulse; you can open a terminal and enter apt-get -s purge pulseaudio and see what it screams about.  If it wants to remove important packages, then you may not be able to remove it; not sure about KDE.  My personal experience with XFCE and LXQT is that the dependency on pulseaudio is at the meta-package, as well as "some" of the real software packages installed by the meta; thus pulseaudio can be removed, as long as you arent using a particular package that depends on it.  I do not have pulse installed and can happily use mpv, for example.

Also, if you use Firefox; it depends on pulseaudio.

Pulseaudio does indeed get pulled in by the xfce package.  I manually install xfce via the xfce package along with several other xfce packages I desire.  I do not use pulse on 1 of my pcs, but I dont remember if I removed or disabled it; unfortunately I do not have access to that pc at the moment.

On the pc I am currently using, installed xfce the same way; I can pull up synaptic and do a remove of the pulseaudio package and it doesnt try to remove anything else, just pulseaudio.  But, if I try to remove the libpulse0 package, then several dependencies are flagged for removal; including xfce and much more.  So it seems the libpulse0 is whats really dependent.

If you decide to remove/disable pulse, a nice xfce panel volume control is volumeicon-alsa.

Traditional western "christmas" here, but probably more of yule or yuletide for us.  Enjoy the yule "winterness" of the time of year; solstice, a small 8 inch fake fir tree, some lights, stockings hung, couple gifts exchanged, a Quorn Roast feast along with some beers and wine.  Watch A Christmas Story.  Done, time to bed!

calming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2F … C&index=22

passionate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV21J75vFE

I posted a screenprint of my legible coupon with @golinux coupon as well on my google drive.  Odd that the "coupons" are different, as in the discount amounts.  Anyway, not sure why @pcalvert is having pdf troubles. 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZoDSJ … UVa7CKqzMG