[Post withdrawn, because I figured out how to do it myself. Moderators can remove this post at their discretion.]

Perhaps a better choice might be to show the original post, detail how you resolved it, and then mark the thread as solved. Never know if the path you followed may benefit another.

I'm aware of the procedure, but I made a choice, and I can explain why. The information is probably already known to the advanced Linux users who moderate LQ, and I've been here long enough to know that before any information can be disseminated to users with my skill level or lower, it has to run past the gatekeepers. Last time I tried posting the solution I had learned to some problem, it earned a lecture from one of the mods about posting information that's already in the manual. That's not going to happen again, so I now keep any information to myself.

Please do not remove OP content like you did. That is frowned upon here at LQ. Ambiguities help no one. You originally had a request but then rudely went back to edit out the content.

rtmistler comment is a valid point.

So is mine: I didn't want to hear from the moderators that I was wrong to post information they already know. No good deed goes unpunished. I see I was in for trouble either way, and the only way to absolutely avoid it was to post nothing. And my OP was not an answer, only a question; so perhaps if I'd specified that, you'd have left me alone.

Fine, whatever you want. I sometimes use no graphical login manager, and log in to my account from the command prompt. But when I do that, I never knew how to boot into the non-default desktop or change the default. I had Xfce and Icewm, and normally wanted Xfce, but the distro went to Icewm by default. The only solution I could think of was to uninstall Icewm so the distro would have no choice but Xfce.

That produced an error message: it would say .xinitrc specified Icewm, but Icewm no longer existed. At first I simply deleted .xinitrc, but eventually I decided to look in the file. Besides the line specifying a default desktop, it had an instruction to make any changes in .xinitrc-custom. So I opened .xinitrc-custom and changed to .

Your removal of the OP makes this thread useless. I have no way of validating your posts since you did remove content. I can only base things on your later posts within this thread. If a moderator stated that the issue you presented was already covered then at that time of moderation then that would be weighted by that mod.

My point here as moderator is that you should not remove content. If you wish the thread removed then press the report button and provide a justifiable reason for removal of the thread.

You seem to be mistaken about the role of a moderator on LQ. Yes, we must read for understanding each of the posts/threads within our fora. Keep things at a level that allows members to have a successful interaction with other members. If you do not follow the LQ Rules then we must decide what & how things must be resolved to bring everything back to norm.

I am not pressing you or selective moderation but I am stating that what was done originally by you was not correct thus a request to cease such actions here at LQ.

I don't think this is a thing; I've never seen a moderator on LQ say anything like this. How would "post[ing] information [moderators] already know" be a problem anyway?

It would be a problem only if you had had to deal with snide moderators (and non-moderators) before and were already tired of it. I'd dig up the post, but I don't feel like digging through dozens of them.

Next time I solve a problem after asking about it, I'll just leave the post alone and forget about it.

@newbies, you've been on the forums for 8 years. Made close to 2,000 posts. Just because someone flamed you once, and you'll have trouble digging it up, is no reason to "keep it going". Granted it affects how you post, but please don't project the rudeness in reverse. That amplifies it versus let's it die as it should have whenever it did occur. Sorry it did happen, by the way. But please avoid resurrecting that it happened.

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I did dig through your postings, at least 350 of them. You have been told before many times not to remove content in several post(s) by moderators. You have been told to use the report button many times yet you continue with removal of content. You even used network induced dupe as an issue several times. That can be expected at times but do report that to the fora moderator for LQ attention.

As to snide moderators, please use the report button or contact admin@linuxquestions.org with a detailed response. Moderators here at LQ try their best for LQ to be helpful and provide a good experience here at LQ for participant members.

I am sorry you find responding with a solution to your queries not important. LQ responses to solutions provides help to everyone that may have the same issue. By your inclusion of a solution to a query made by you will certainly be of help to fellow LQ members. So I ask you to reconsider responding with a solution instead of ignoring provision of a solution for the problem.

Sure you have garnered your share of help by fellow members here at LQ. So a courteous inclusion would not hurt. Please reconsider.

One other point for you to consider is to re-read your post before submitting. Ask yourself is this post relevant, constructive and positive for the content within the thread. If not should the post be in a new thread or just do not press <submit>.

Network-induced dupe? I don't know what that is...but after pondering, I am guessing you mean the times my network used to hang (whatever the technical word is) in the middle of clicking submit post, which earned me another scolding. And you have a lot of free time, if you'd sit there and research at least 350 of my posts going back many years.

A courteous inclusion for whom? Pondering that, I don't think you're trying very hard to understand my viewpoint, if you're seriously suggesting the LQ members who helped me could benefit from reading anything I learned. Any time I learn something new in Linux, it's unlikely they don't already know it. I can't speak to members of my own skill level without going through the moderators first. This was a knee-jerk response to that. Won't happen again.

My time to research is my business, LQ moderators do know how to search here at LQ. I am committed to my duties here at LQ. Yes, I can read that fast for understanding since the search results are abbreviated, then only open the ones necessary. From my research I did notice issues that you created on your own. You still have some network issues since you stated at several levels the reasons for removal of post content.

Yes, a network induced duplicate post can occur. For those you can report for removal without creating an issue.

What I am saying is that by posting a solution you are possibly providing help to someone else who may have a similar issue at that time or later on. This knowledge base can be searched by a member to see if someone else experienced the same problem and then posted a reply with their solution. Hurts no one, but may help some fellow member.

Not a knee jerk reaction but a moderation of the post by a mod that feels a gentle reminder not to continue with the action of post content removal. Especially for OP of a thread.

When you signed up to LQ, you agreed to abide by the rules of a moderated forum.

I am glad you decided to agree not to delete content again.
Thank You!