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yakoub

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 19

gnome applications don't start

i did a new archlinux installation with gnome, but some applications won't start up .

i can start nautilus and gedit from xterm .
but opening them from the menu fails .

moreover, gnome-terminal won't even start from xterm giving this error :

Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 1

localectl status :
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: us
      X11 Layout: us

i got both vte and vte3 installed .

Last edited by yakoub (2015-09-27 05:41:00)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: gnome applications don't start

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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yakoub

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 19

Re: gnome applications don't start

just to make clear, the rest of my gnome installation is working and i use xinitrc method to start the desktop .

Last edited by yakoub (2015-09-27 11:01:09)

yakoub

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 19

Re: gnome applications don't start

i also tried enabling gdm using : systemctl enable gdm
but on reboot gdm faild to start and journalctl showed errors by gnome-session about being "unable to connect" .

so although i can start gnome using startx, but i can't start gnome applications from menu .
i can start nautilus from xterm and then if i close the nautilus window the xterm still doesn't return the prompt and then i can start new instance of nautilus by clicking the menu .
gedit also doesn't start by clicking the menu but does start from xterm .

yakoub

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 19

Re: gnome applications don't start

why no one is helping me with this ?

ewaller

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Re: gnome applications don't start

why no one is helping me with this ?

These are very active forums.  If someone had an answer for you, I guarantee it would be forthcoming.   

I do not have Gnome installed, nor am I inclined to install it; I cannot help you by testing.
Try to provide more information -- it may help others

Have you tried creating a new user and trying it as the new user?

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Scimmia

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Re: gnome applications don't start

Try this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46374

yakoub

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 19

Re: gnome applications don't start

Try this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46374

thank you, that solved my problem .

my mistake was after copying /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to .xinitrc was to delete all lines after the comment "start some nice programs" and replacing it with exec gnome-session .
but the first block of those commands was indeed responsible for including scripts under xinitrc.d .