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tarig

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Registered: 2016-09-03

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make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

hello everyone ,

I am having some dificulties running the  Xfce  desktop enviroment knowing that I have installed it . gnome classic will start immediatley at the login  screen with no options to choose from -like Xfce  .
My question is how to make list of available desktop enviroments in the system to choose from at the login screen .

thanks .

Last edited by tarig (2016-09-03 20:20:12)

jasonwryan

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

What login screen? GDM presumably: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … M_sessions

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tarig

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

I ment the screen when I login to my user account .

headkase

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

I ment the screen when I login to my user account .

Which greeter did you install?  What is the output of "uname -a" without the quotes?

jasonwryan

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

How did you install your system?

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tarig

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

I ment the screen when I login to my user account .

Which greeter did you install?  What is the output of "uname -a" without the quotes?

Linux archpc 4.7.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 20 23:02:56 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

if you mean by "greeter" applications like "SLiM" , yes it's installed .

Last edited by tarig (2016-09-04 08:39:58)

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

Have you followed the wiki? There is a code snippet which does what you want.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM#Environments

headkase

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

See the warning at the very top of the SLiM wiki page: it is no longer in development and doesn't work fully on Arch.  You really should, really, consider switching to a different manager.

ewaller

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

You really should, really, consider switching to a different manager.

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Or no manager.  There are legitimate use cases for them, but in general they create endless problems.

Look at these forums over the last few days.  There are a couple recurring themes -- NetworkManager (the bane of my existence) and members fighting endless problems with display managers.  Quirk upon quirk upon quirk.  Why?
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headkase

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

You really should, really, consider switching to a different manager.

<rant>
Or no manager.  There are legitimate use cases for them, but in general they create endless problems.

Look at these forums over the last few days.  There are a couple recurring themes -- NetworkManager (the bane of my existence) and members fighting endless problems with display managers.  Quirk upon quirk upon quirk.  Why?
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But, but!  I need a pretty GUI!  I'm a WIMPy person!   Without a Window, Icon, Mouse, and Pointer I'm lost!   I'm on Windows at the moment, because of a large library of games, but I've been considering - deeply considering - installing Arch in a virtual machine and having it boot to a text-mode only.  No GUIs, probably not even X (unless that spawned i3 on launch).  The reason?  I'm not learning anything new with a GUI, pure command line would push outside of my already established envelope.

FlowIt

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Re: make Xfce the default desktop enviroment

This was a suggestion to drop your DM (display manager), not your DE (desktop environment). Basically what will happen is that you don't boot to a fance GUI but to the multi-user.target where you enter your username, press enter, enter your password, et voila, your graphical desktop starts (if you follow the wiki and add a single line to your bash_profile. It's a bit harder to switch between multiple DEs this way.