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jezaustin
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 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: [solved] Slim will not start fluxbox |
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Morning,
For some reason, my xdm (slim) will not start fluxbox, I instead get twm + a couple of xterms.
If I stop the xdm service, I can startx into fluxbox. I have ~/.xsession symlinked to ~/.xinitrc. ("exec startfluxbox")
Also, I can log in with slim, then run "killall twm; startfluxbox" and get going that way. What could be going wrong? Should .xsession set an XSESSION variable or something?
thanks,
Jez.
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feiticeir0
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hi.
I had slim working with fluxbox.
Did you put edit /etc/rc.conf and add fluxbox to the XSESSION variable ?
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Nerevar
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:02 am Post subject: |
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Make sure you have this in /etc/slim.conf:
| Code: | | login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session |
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taipan67
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Another variable you could try setting in /etc/slim.conf is "sessions"... | Code: | # Available sessions (first one is the default).
# The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
sessions fluxbox,openbox,xfce4 |
This works for me (along with /etc/rc.conf's $XSESSION variable), and i don't use a ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc at all.
EDIT: The value passed to both of those variables should match the name of a corresponding script in /etc/X11/Sessions... 
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jezaustin
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| Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Nerevar wrote: | Make sure you have this in /etc/slim.conf:
| Code: | | login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session |
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Thanks, just did a reboot and this sorted it for me. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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The default way to do this is to create this file with the according variable setting:
| Code: | | echo "XSESSION=fluxbox" > /etc/env.d/90xsession |
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jdratlif
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| genstorm wrote: | The default way to do this is to create this file with the according variable setting:
| Code: | | echo "XSESSION=fluxbox" > /etc/env.d/90xsession |
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What happened to XSESSION in /etc/rc.conf? Is this a recent change? I didn't notice the message for xinit until you mentioned this about creating the 90xsession file.
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asturm
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| That option has moved out of rc.conf with baselayout-2.0 and openrc together with several other things. As I understand it, the /etc/env.d/90xsession method has 'always' been working but was overridden by rc.conf until that change, which might be the reason to make xinit push it now. |
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jezaustin
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Is baselayout2 the reason for users' .xsessions being ignored by slim? My expectation has always been that xdm or replacement would honour users' preferences by default, and it baffled me a bit when that didn't happen.
J. |
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tava
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| Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Does not work for me:
I used:
instead. |
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Joseph_sys
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| Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| tava wrote: | Does not work for me:
I used:
instead. |
That worked for me as well.
Does it mean that /etc/rc.conf file is obsolete?
(somebody screw it up gain :-/) |
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asturm
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| Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| No it's not obsolete, it just doesn't handle XSESSION anymore. |
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OPelerin
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tip. I had the same issue!
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