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3xp10r3r|X13

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 12

Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

Dear Arch community,
I have just installed xfce4. To make it perfect, I've installed slim and added it to the daemons. It works flawlessly...unfortunately I am not able to login. It does not seem to recognize my user name and/or password. After going back to the prompt (strg+alt+F5), I am able to login. Also: If I log in and try to go back with srtg+alt+F7 I am stuck at the login screen again.

The problem:
Slim is not able to access user and password - How do I get it to do so?

On the other hand...from my point of view it could be anything.

Any help is very appreciated.

Last edited by 3xp10r3r|X13 (2012-08-26 18:05:14)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

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Re: Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

I'll wager one credit that it is your ~/.xinitrc file's fault.

Can please post your ~/.xinitrc file ?
If you need to do that from the command line, you might want to look at wgetpaste.

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3xp10r3r|X13

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-10-13

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Re: Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

all I've got in it is:

exec xfce4-session

I guess that is a bit too less.

domac

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Registered: 2012-08-06

Posts: 102

Re: Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

Maybe you could try with

exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

all I've got in it is:

exec xfce4-session

I guess that is a bit too less.

Actually according to the wiki it should be just

exec startxfce4

when using slim.  Have you made your .xinitrc executable?

chmod +x ~/.xinitrc

Last edited by bgc1954 (2012-08-26 16:18:53)

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3xp10r3r|X13

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 12

Re: Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

Finally - THANK YOU SO MUCH

I had the wrong .xinitrc file and it wasn't executable.

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

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Re: Can't get past the login screen - Login fails [SOLVED]

Glad it worked.  Please mark your post as [SOLVED] by editing the first post.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2012-08-26 16:39:20)

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