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GSnake Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 120 Location: Italy
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject: Slim starts X but not XFCE4 |
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As the title says, I've set everything up but when I type my user/pass my PC logs into a X session (black screen with X as cursor) and not into a XFCE4 one. What should I do? |
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Hypnos Advocate
Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 2889 Location: Omnipresent
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Can you start XFCE successfully from a text console with the 'startxfce4' command? _________________ Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme |
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DanneStrat n00b
Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Posts: 73
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Have you specified xfce in the XSESSION variable?
Code: | # nano -w /etc/env.d/90xsession |
XSESSION="Xfce4"
Code: | # env-update && source /etc/profile |
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GSnake Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 120 Location: Italy
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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DanneStrat wrote: | Have you specified xfce in the XSESSION variable?
Code: | # nano -w /etc/env.d/90xsession |
XSESSION="Xfce4"
Code: | # env-update && source /etc/profile |
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I already done that... not working.
Hypnos wrote: | Can you start XFCE successfully from a text console with the 'startxfce4' command? |
Yes, it starts. |
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jgascon Apprentice
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 252
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Can you post the /etc/slim.conf and the ~/.xinitrc files? |
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GSnake Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 120 Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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jgascon wrote: | Can you post the /etc/slim.conf and the ~/.xinitrc files? |
Solved by installing ConsoleKit...
By the way I've no xinitrc files set for any of the pc users... |
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v_andal Guru
Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 541 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Just a side note. Newer slim (~1.3.4) supports consolekit, so when starting XFCE one does not need to use ck-launch-session. Otherwise 2 sessions are started and the user permissions get messed up.
Also, maybe http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce gives better instructions. |
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Walen n00b
Joined: 28 Oct 2012 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:50 am Post subject: Re: Slim starts X but not XFCE4 |
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GSnake wrote: | As the title says, I've set everything up but when I type my user/pass my PC logs into a X session (black screen with X as cursor) and not into a XFCE4 one. What should I do? | I just had exactly the same problem. It seems the "solution" is to press F1 key until you see Session: Xfce4. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Xfce/Installation#XDM hints to add xfce4-session to your .xsession file to make it the default choice. |
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Jeroend n00b
Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 31
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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem beceause dbus wasn't running
solved it by: rc-update add dbus default |
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