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chetanbhasin

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Registered: 2013-06-21

Posts: 2

Cinnamon with SLiM unable to log into non-root user [RESOLVED]

Hi all!

I installed Arch for the first time with the help of the Beginners Guide and Lifehacker's guide, and it all went great. However, I faced this problem when I came to installing Cinnamon Desktop environment with the SLiM display manager.

I performed all the steps mentioned in the Wiki, which are-:

-Download and install Cinnamon and SLiM using pacman using:

     pacman -S cinnamon cinnamon-control-settings nemo slim 

-Configured silim's configuration file with the same settings as mentioned in the Wiki
-Configured ~/.xinitrc file as mentioned in the Wiki

Now, my problem is that I cannot log into non root user accounts with my newly installed DE -  either manually or by automatic startup.

Things go well with root account except for that fact that there is an unusual lag.

Whenever I enter my non-root username and password in SLiM's GUI it gives me a message:

Failed to execute login command

What should I do in this case?
Thanks

Last edited by chetanbhasin (2013-06-21 08:32:13)

chetanbhasin

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Registered: 2013-06-21

Posts: 2

Re: Cinnamon with SLiM unable to log into non-root user [RESOLVED]

Alight! So I finally got the problem.

I didn't notice the fact that ~/.xinitrc file is not global - i.e., it is different for every user. I had created one for my root user but not for my non-root users.

Now, I'm able to log into DEs normally. Gonna try other DEs too.