Arch Linux

itsmeh

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Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 23

a few questions

Arch starts up with no problems, but to get a wireless connection I have to

iwconfig wlan0 essid bleh

dhcpcd wlan0

Its the only way I can see to get online, I have wicd but it always gives me a dbus error

Next question is I use xfce, I would like it to autologin and go directly to xfce after startup, how can I do this?

Also I dont have the screen saver option in xfce how can i fix this?

markisthejob

Member

From: Cork, Ireland

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 63

Re: a few questions

Have a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
It should give you all the answers you need forw your wireless connection.

As for your other question,I dont use xfce but I know kdm and gdm support auto login.How do you currently login?

itsmeh

Member

Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 23

Re: a few questions

to login now I enter my user id and pass, then type startxfce4

markisthejob

Member

From: Cork, Ireland

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 63

Re: a few questions

My advice would be to as root:

pacman -S gdm

/etc/rc.d/gdm start

gdmsetup

In the security tab, There is an option for automatic login.Also make sure you add gdm to your daemon list in /etc/rc.conf