Booting into xfce4

[blossa]

I have been running xfce4 for some time now and now I wanted to have a graphical loggin.... So I installed xdm and slim after this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml

When I have booted, slim starts and i can log in, however xfce4 don't start after that. To be honest I don't know what is starting... but i get three terminal windows and a clock. How do I get xfce4 to start after that I have logged in?

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# rc-update show 
xdm |      default

/etc/conf.d/xdm

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CHECKVT=7
DISPLAYMANAGER="slim"

/etc/rc.conf

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XSESSION="Xfce4"

The users .xinitrc

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exec startxfce4

[Nerevar]

The startup scripts don't setup a PATH, so try this in your .xinitrc

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exec /usr/bin/startxfce4

FYI: 3 xterms and a clock sounds like the default twm window manager.

[blossa]

Thank you for the tips, but that did not work either... As additional info I can confirm that when i log in "non-graphical" and type "startx" xfce4 is starting as it should.

hrm...

[Nerevar]

Do you have the login_cmd in slim.conf setup as shown here:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/SLiM#Trouble_with_Xfce4

[blossa]

Yes I do. But I found a solution now. I don't know if I have done something wrong in the past or so but I commented out the last lines in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and replaced it with "exec startxfce4":

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#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/lib64/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/lib64/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# start some nice programs
# twm &
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
exec startxfce4

[slackline]

Yes I do. But I found a solution now. I don't know if I have done something wrong in the past or so but I commented out the last lines in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and replaced it with "exec startxfce4":

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#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/lib64/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/lib64/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# start some nice programs
# twm &
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
exec startxfce4

You don't need to comment them out, the problem is that your final invocation of xterm is not backgrounded, just add '&' to the last line (I suspect!).

[Nerevar]

What version of xinit do you have installed? I have version 1.0.8-r4 and that file has the following:

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#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
xinitdir=/etc/X11
sysresources=$xinitdir/Xresources
sysmodmap=$xinitdir/Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# First try ~/.xinitrc
if [ -f "$HOME/.xinitrc" ]; then
    XINITRC="$HOME/.xinitrc"
    if [ -x $XINITRC ]; then
        # if the x bit is set on .xinitrc
        # it means the xinitrc is not a
        # shell script but something else
        exec $XINITRC
    else
        exec /bin/sh "$HOME/.xinitrc"
    fi
# If not present, try the system default
elif [ -n "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`" ]; then
    exec "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`"
# Failsafe
else
    # start some nice programs
    twm &
    xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
    xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
    xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
    exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
fi

I suppose it's possible that I had to modify that file as well since it has the same RCS timestamp as yours. If so, it must have been awhile ago as I certainly don't remember doing that.

[blossa]

I have the same version.

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# emerge -Dvp xinit

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-apps/xinit-1.0.8-r4  USE="hal pam -debug -minimal" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

It is also very possible that I have modified my file a looong time ago. If I get the time, I will try your file. Atm I cannot try it. Thanks for all your help!