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ArchArching

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Registered: 2015-10-25

Posts: 23

[Solved]xinitrc configured but xfce not executed on startup

Hi,

I have followed the xinitrc wiki, and am would now expect my machine to boot into xfce but instead I have to use the startxfce4 from the command line.

I copied the xinitrc file to my home directory and made various changes to it in an attempt to get it working, at the moment it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

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

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

# 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

Which is effectively the same as the example in the wiki.

I have made the script executable using chmod +x. I have looked at the Xorg.0.log and there are no obvious problems.

I am also have the bug described here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202782. I mention it as it may be related.

Any ideas?

Last edited by ArchArching (2015-10-25 17:47:19)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved]xinitrc configured but xfce not executed on startup

I have followed the xinitrc wiki, and am would now expect my machine to boot into xfce but instead I have to use the startxfce4 from the command line.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xi … X_at_login

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ArchArching

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Registered: 2015-10-25

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved]xinitrc configured but xfce not executed on startup

I have followed the xinitrc wiki, and am would now expect my machine to boot into xfce but instead I have to use the startxfce4 from the command line.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xi … X_at_login

Thanks

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [Solved]xinitrc configured but xfce not executed on startup

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

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