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Registered: 2017-04-27

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startx only boots into gnome on root user.

Hi, I have just installed arch (finally! Took me a week of tries), and through all the errors I've so far experienced, I can't seem to find a solution to this one. So, first, whenever I boot up the system, it takes me to the big full screen terminal that you use in setup instead of the desktop enviroment. Second, whenever I try to boot into it with:

startx

it works fine if I am in root user, but then, lets say I try to switch to a different user by logging out and going back to that terminal, typing

exit

,and then logging in to the other user I created, whenver I try to run

startx

I end up with a screen with 3 open terminals, even though its easy to go back to that terminal, exit out of the user, and login back to root and startx again, root user won't allow me to do things like makepgk.

I appreciate all help I recieve.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

That's the expected behaviour of startx if you haven't configured it.

Read the xinit wiki page.

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Registered: 2017-04-27

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Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

That's the expected behaviour of startx if you haven't configured it.

Read the xinit wiki page.

Can you please show me how to configure it? The wiki seems hard to follow. I tried, but I got the same result.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

This is too hard to follow? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc

"I tried, but got the same result" does not help us help you. Tell us exactly what you tried.

If you still have problems after reading the section I linked, post the contents of your user's (not the root user's) .xinitrc file.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2017-04-28 01:12:16)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

How did you install arch linux?

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chr0mag

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From: Vancouver, Canada

Registered: 2017-02-02

Posts: 94

Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225589

Omar007

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Registered: 2015-04-09

Posts: 368

Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … g_sessions

cataldo

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Registered: 2018-01-12

Posts: 1

Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

I had the same problem. I resolved it by renaming the file .initrc in my user's home directory to .initrc-bak. After that I was able to log in to gnome without a problem as a regular user.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: startx only boots into gnome on root user.

Don't necrobump with something that's very unlikely to be the same issue.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.