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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:41 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] SLiM doesn't load sessions correctly Reply with quote

I've installed SLiM and followed this guide, but whenever I try to log in it just dumps me to a black desktop with a cross cursor. I have my settings set exactly as they are in that guide, so I really don't know what I could be doing wrong here.

startx normally works perfectly when I didn't have SLiM, so this should be a simple fix. Anyone know what could be going on here?


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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2012 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have SLiM set up to use my ~/.xinitrc file. If you don't select a session type in the SLiM login screen (via F1 I think) then it will just run the .xinitrc file with no command line parameters. If you select a session type in SLiM then that session type will be sent as the first command line parameter to .xinitrc.

I haven't use SLiM for a while because I think it is broken but my /etc/slim.conf contains:
Code:
login_cmd         exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
sessions          fluxbox,icewm,lxde,e16

You could also try this login_cmd:
Code:
login_cmd         exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session >~/.xsession-errors 2>&1


My .xinitrc looks like:
Code:
[ -f ~/.xmodmaprc ] && xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc

case "$1" in
    fluxbox)
        exec startfluxbox
        ;;
    icewm)
        exec icewm-session
        ;;
    lxde)
        exec startlxde
        ;;
    e16)
        exec e16
        ;;

    # Default: fluxbox
    *)
        exec startfluxbox
        ;;
esac

HTH
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm having the same problem with dwm.
Which WM/DE are you trying to use?
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Starting a simple window manager is unfortunately a giant headache nowadays. I use GNOME and start it from ~/.zprofile at login using startx. Anyhow, I'm guessing your login_cmd line along with the sessionsdir line looks like this:
Code:
login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session
sessiondir          /etc/X11/Sessions

If you created a ~/.xsession as per the guide, I would just delete it and symlink ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession, which is what most people do. Since startx works for you, this should work no problem. And if SLiM isn't starting X using your ~/.xsession script, hit F1 at the login prompt to cycle through the options.
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe the same issue - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7041828.html#7041828 . At least I had the same problem.
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ds2369 wrote:
I'm having the same problem with dwm.
Which WM/DE are you trying to use?


I'm using awesome. I'm trying some of the configs now, so I'll update on how it goes. If that doesn't work, I'll try that symlinking.
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 2:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

theluckymike wrote:
Maybe the same issue - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7041828.html#7041828 . At least I had the same problem.


I did this and it no longer dumps me at the blank screen, but now it sent me to the regular console login. So I still have to login anyway. I'm going to try symlinkning to see if that helps any.

EDIT: This solved it:

Code:
emerge consolekit
rc-update add consolekit default


Thanks everyone!
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