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zipeldiablo

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From: Paris

Registered: 2015-08-15

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] Launching xfce gets me back to prompt ?

Hi, after my reboot today i found myself in the incapacity to start xfce.
I usually log from basic prompt then do "exec xfce4" to launch xfce and be on my desktop.
But when i do that i got send back to the prompt.

I changed the kernel from which i boot but that didn't solve anything so i assume the error is directly on my system.
Though i don't understand what is going on since all i did recently what playing with libvirt and my virtual machine, the only thing i did in my system was removing a mounted drive from fstab and it was a data drive with the sole purpose of storing my vm image. (it has nothing to do with /boot /root or /home)

Could someone help me figure out what is going on?
Thanks

Last edited by zipeldiablo (2016-04-19 20:24:29)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,976

Re: [SOLVED] Launching xfce gets me back to prompt ?

I usually log from basic prompt then do "exec xfce4" to launch xfce and be on my desktop.

See: The Wiki.

The correct way to start Xfce4 is:

startxfce4

With an exec if in your .xinitrc.

zipeldiablo

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From: Paris

Registered: 2015-08-15

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Launching xfce gets me back to prompt ?

Didn't work for me.
What worked was solution proposed here :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143147

Have exec startxfce4 in my .xinitrc (which i already had) and use "startx" when i boot.

What i don't understand is why now, i've been launching my desktop the same way for two weeks and it was working just fine