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oakArron

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Registered: 2018-03-07

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dwm only as root

I installed dmw right after I installed Arch Linux but I have trouble starting it as a user. I created ~/.xinitrc with entry "exec dwm" and after typing as root "startx", dmw starts, but when I try to do the same as user I can't. Another issue i have, is with lightdm, i installed it according to Archwiki instructions but when I boot lightdm.service shows failed and I need to reboot. How to make startx load at the boot automatically Could you help and advise what I should do next. Thanks

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: dwm only as root

I created ~/.xinitrc with entry "exec dwm" and after typing as root "startx", dmw starts, but when I try to do the same as user I can't.

You create ~/.xinitrc for the root user or the none root user or both? Xinit#xinitrc  Please see the second note for content missing from your .xinitrc

Another issue i have, is with lightdm, i installed it according to Archwiki instructions but when I boot lightdm.service shows failed and I need to reboot.

What is the content of lightdm's log files /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log and /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log

How to make startx load at the boot automatically

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xi … X_at_login
Edit:
Also the output of the following run as the none root user

$ stat ~/.Xauthority

Oh and welcome to the arch linux forums oakArron.

Last edited by loqs (2018-03-07 20:45:34)