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After having set up my Archlinux installation along with XFCE4 from the repositories, I was starting it using the 'startxfce4' command from the bash (using my user, not root of course).
Now that was a bit tiresome and I wanted to try SLiM, so I installed the packages and wrote 'exec xfce4-session' in the .xinitrc (as was written in the Wiki page for XFCE4; 'exec startxfce4' as stated in the pages for SLiM does NOT work - the screen stays black when loading SLiM; I thus won't even see a login option/ SLiM at all).
After the next restart it was working, I thought. I successfully managed to get into XFCE4. But for some weird reason I was not able to start my web browser, Epiphany, anymore. It said it had was not able to contact the dbus.
I was only able to solve that dismissing SLiM and issuing the startxfce4 from the bash. Now I don't get what the actual problem behind that is.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: I am also NOT able to find the following file: /opt/xfce4/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc! The folder xfce4 does not exist for me in /opt:
[user@machine ~]$ ls -l /opt
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-09-23 00:53 acrobat
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-20 00:40 gnome
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-04 22:57 java
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-11-26 12:51 mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2007-10-20 01:08 openoffice
I suppose this is not intended that way.
EDIT2: Found that xinitrc n /etc/xdg/xfce4! Should I update the Wiki?
Last edited by Stalafin (2007-12-05 08:30:07)
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I have same setup as you, xfce4 and SLiM. Here is my .xinitrc file.
#! /bin/sh
#
# Run your windows manger from here
#
#
exec startxfce4
not sure what your problem is but I just followed the arch wiki SLiM setup guide and all works.
DON'T forget to mark xinitrc as executable.
Last edited by jacko (2007-12-05 08:21:35)
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Strange, out of a sudden everything works, including Epiphany and exec startxfce4...
Hm, I guess this is solved then.
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