xinit questions

scarrz · 02-01-2016, 02:32 AM

I'm having a bit of trouble starting xsessions from tty. using lightdm and gdm I can log into gnome-flashback. xfce will not start which is weird cos I was having problems getting gnome-flashback working and a user suggested that I have a "clean config" and start with a new user and that worked. but now gnome-flashback-metacity is the only session that will load

I cannot start xfce or gnome from tty either. a little help?

Arch linux, multilib nvidia with the proprietary drivers

BW-userx · 02-01-2016, 06:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scarrz

Me again...

I'm having a bit of trouble starting xsessions from tty. using lightdm and gdm I can log into gnome-flashback. xfce will not start which is weird cos I was having problems getting gnome-flashback working and a user suggested that I have a "clean config" and that worked. but now gnome-flashback-metacity is the only session that will load

I cannot start xfce or gnome from tty either. a little help?

Arch linux, multilib nvidia with the proprietary drivers

why are we not looking at your conf files, That'd help.

Not to put a bone in your soup, but Arch Linux has a great fourm full of info and a Questions area, Just for Arch Only peeps. (even though a lot of their information can be used for Linux in General, not that LQ is chopped liver mind you.)

scarrz · 02-08-2016, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

why are we not looking at your conf files, That'd help.

I suppose. I was told on the IRC channel in #archlinux that xorg.conf is no longer needed. one was generated by nvidia but I renamed it to xorg.conf.temp confirming the "no need" for this file as everything still works and I can log into gnome-flashback. but here is the conf file since you were curious:

Code:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 361.18  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-13)  Sat Jan  9 21:52:11 PST 2016

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

unfortunately properly naming this file does not help at all. I cannot start xfce. (I will note though, that Plasma Desktop starts just not any others) also when I /usr/bin/xfce4-session I get "error: no screens found" fron TTY. I have also got "Terminated" I looked at all the normal logs and no hints :/

BW-userx · 02-08-2016, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scarrz

I suppose. I was told on the IRC channel in #archlinux that xorg.conf is no longer needed. one was generated by nvidia but I renamed it to xorg.conf.temp confirming the "no need" for this file as everything still works and I can log into gnome-flashback. but here is the conf file since you were curious:

unfortunately properly naming this file does not help at all. I cannot start xfce. (I will note though, that Plasma Desktop starts just not any others) also when I /usr/bin/xfce4-session I get "error: no screens found" fron TTY. I have also got "Terminated" I looked at all the normal logs and no hints :/

what log in manager are you using? some you have to go in and tell it what to start in that file instead.

just google your lightDM - " how to set up (login manager) "

scarrz · 02-08-2016, 10:34 AM

I looked thru the setup guide for arch and lightdm didnt have any clues either :/ here is my lightdm.conf setup. I made a HOWTO for ppl to install lightdm and the pantheon greeter.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...er-4175558946/

BW-userx · 02-08-2016, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scarrz

I looked thru the setup guide for arch and lightdm didnt have any clues either :/ here is my lightdm.conf setup. I made a HOWTO for ppl to install lightdm and the pantheon greeter.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...er-4175558946/

go back to this page and look where I just posted // in your code I spaced it out and put in red.

BW-userx · 02-08-2016, 11:48 AM

2 if you're starting off of that big black screen you can put inside of your .xinitrc
using your fav command line editor (nano)

Code:

exec xfce4-session

then startx

oh heck ensure it is installed too while you're at it, too. ensure you have lightdm, and a greeter too installed. gtk-greeter or such like greeter

Quote:

Default session

Lightdm, like other DMs, stores the last-selected xsession in ~/.dmrc. See Display manager#Session list for more info.

Session configuration

Code:

Many display managers read available sessions from /usr/share
/xsessions/ directory. It contains standard desktop entry files
for each DM/WM.

To add/remove entries to your display manager's session list;
create/remove the .desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions/ as
desired. A typical .desktop file will look something like:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=xfce4
Comment=Log in using the Openbox window manager (without a session manager)
Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
TryExec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
Icon=xfce4.png
Type=XSession

yours that you'd create would be xfce4.desktop
inside of /usr/share/xsessions/
or do a

Code:

sudo find /usr -type f -name xfce*

looking for your desktop file and anything that has to do with xfce4 first before creating your desktop file.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
 

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi
 
 

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice

exec xfce4-session