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I just jumped into archlinux from many other distros yesterday. I got everything setup, got xfce4 xorg-server and slim login manager. I have been messing with xorg settings and just thought, "hey I should make a normal user account". I proceeded to do this. Logged out of xfce and tried to log in but the screen just flashes a couple of time and then goes back to slim LM. I tried a couple more time to no avail. I logged back in as root. deleted my user and then recreated it. Reboot this time still same thing. Did I mess up by waiting till after I got xorg and xfce installed before making a normal user account or is there something I am missing. I know how to make a user and then I followed the directions on Arch Wiki page. I add the proper groups. Still nothing
Please help
Last edited by KuroYoma (2009-03-16 02:56:10)
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The first thing that I think of with this problem is that you may not have a proper $HOME/.xinitrc file.
To fix this, simply create a file named .xinitrc in your home directory, or edit the one already there, to be like this:
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
exec startxfce4
If that does not fix it, can you log in as this normal user in one of the terminals? (<alt><ctrl>F2 to access the second one)
Are you able to log into XFCE4 as the root user?
Hope that that helps
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The first thing that I think of with this problem is that you may not have a proper $HOME/.xinitrc file.
To fix this, simply create a file named .xinitrc in your home directory, or edit the one already there, to be like this:# # ~/.xinitrc # exec startxfce4
If that does not fix it, can you log in as this normal user in one of the terminals? (<alt><ctrl>F2 to access the second one)
Are you able to log into XFCE4 as the root user?Hope that that helps
I feel so ashamed that I forgot to do that. That was exactly the problem the file was there but the exec startxfce4 was commented out. Thank You so much for your help!!!!
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You can 'fix' this problem with future user accounts by editing the .xinitrc file in /etc/skel
/etc/skel is the folder that is used for the base when you create a new user.
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You can 'fix' this problem with future user accounts by editing the .xinitrc file in /etc/skel
/etc/skel is the folder that is used for the base when you create a new user.
Thank You. That is a good piece of info. Thanks again.
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I feel so ashamed that I forgot to do that. That was exactly the problem the file was there but the exec startxfce4 was commented out. Thank You so much for your help!!!!
While reading this I was thinking "That can´t be my problem, I can´t possibly be that distracted..." Turned out that was exactly my problem. lol
Please do laugh at me. I deserve it
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It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
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So, I've a question too.. How do you edit the .xinitrc file in /etc/skel in order to can log as a "new user"?
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JL-ramos, please don't bump ancient threads, especially when they're solved.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22
There is no longer an .xinitrc file in /etc/skel, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xi … figuration instead. If you still have problems, feel free to open a new thread and link back to this one if you feel it is still relevant.
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