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haansn08

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Registered: 2014-07-27

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[SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

Hello there
I've just installed the slim window manager and it always says "Failed to execute login command"
Now I want to go back to the terminal and in all threads I found it was suggested to press Ctrl + Alt + F1 or use "exit" as the username.
This doesn't work somehow since the only thing this gets me is a blank screen and no terminal.

I have installed the nvidia-304xx graphics card driver, but I can't change anything on the system, because I'm lost without a terminal

Thanks for your help in advance!

Last edited by haansn08 (2014-08-06 19:41:00)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

First, slim is not a window manager - it is a display manager, you need to have a separate window manager.  If Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't work, try F2, F3, etc.

You can also append the following to the kernel line to boot to a tty:

systemd.unit=multi-user.target

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haansn08

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Registered: 2014-07-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

Oh - yes I didn't mean to write window manager - My *window* manager is xfce.
Your kernel line did the trick - thank you so much

billows

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Registered: 2014-07-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

I'm not sure if it matters, but just for completion/correctness: your desktop environment is xfce. The window manager (program responsible for positioning windows on screen, decorating them, actions related to windows) is xfwm. You can still have an xfce-based DE with other window managers like openbox or gala.

fungle

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Registered: 2014-05-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

What does your /etc/slim.conf specifically the line that starts witih login_cmd
Here is what mine looks like:

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login_cmd               exec /bin/bash --login ~/.xinitrc %session
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Have you read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Slim?

haansn08

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Registered: 2014-07-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

I'm not using slim anymore, since it didn't work I installed lxdm instead.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck in slim login manager

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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