BTW this worked fine on earlier versions of ubuntu, including 18.04 and 19.10.
(I'm perfectly happy to hear it's user error, and the login needs to wait for something other than network-online.target, or that I did the wait wrong. The wait didn't seem to be needed before. Also, I didn't mention this, but adding 'sleep 10' before startx didn't seem to help.)
BTW this worked fine on earlier versions of ubuntu, including 18.04 and 19.10.
(I'm perfectly happy to hear it's user error, and the login needs to wait for something other than network- online. target, or that I did the wait wrong. The wait didn't seem to be needed before. Also, I didn't mention this, but adding 'sleep 10' before startx didn't seem to help.)