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Today I finally decided to get rid of Ubuntu on my desktop machine and installed Archlinux.
I want to have XFCE running on it and in general its running quite nicely.
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Yet I can't use restart/shutdown my comp from within Archlinux using that power off button. I get an error stating that HAL is either not permitting to shutdown/reboot the computer, or that it's not available.
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Also my keyboard map in XFCE is different than the one I use outside X (I have a UK keyboard layout; in the shell without a desktop environment everything is right). Why is that? Where can I change it?
Also I Arch installed on my laptop. Initially I used OpenBox, but now I wanted to try XFCE on it too. But here I can't start xfce from my user account (from root or with sudo though it works). I get an error stating "Unable to access file /home/user/.ICEauthority: Permission denied".
EDIT: Alright, the HAL issue is solved for whatever reason. Seems like a restart did it.
Last edited by Stalafin (2007-11-26 18:45:11)
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The solution to the startxfce problem is to change the owner.
sudo chown -R youruser /home/user/.ICEauthority
The -R flag will performe the change recursively
If you ever log in as root again, or using sudo, you will have to change the owner again.
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