[SOLVED] SLiM env switching doesn't work

pfannkuchen_gesicht · 2014-01-03 10:03:25

Hello,
so today I wanted to try a different desktop environment, I already had set everything up a while ago in the slim.conf and xinitrc but the F1 doesn't do anything and it always starts a xfce session.
The thing is though, that back then when I actually changed the 2 configs the switching worked fine and according to the SLiM article on the arch wiki nothing has changed in the way how you configure this.
So is this a bug in recent version or did the config file format change or the files you need to modify?

thanks in advance!

Last edited by pfannkuchen_gesicht (2014-01-04 00:08:52)

root · 2014-01-03 22:38:24

All working fine here as far as I can tell since the recent change to reading the xsessions files.

Does your xfce session appear listed on the login screen?

I presume it would also help if you could provide the content of your .xinitrc file to take a look at its content (remember using the [ code ] tag when doing so).

Last edited by root (2014-01-03 23:42:23)

pfannkuchen_gesicht · 2014-01-03 23:07:22

there is nothing listed at all and when pressing F1 nothing happens either, when in the past the selected DEs name showed up on screen.
my .xinitrc looks exactly like the example on the SLiM archwiki page, just without the entries of the other DEs I don't have installed. I am also pretty sure it's not even an issue of the xinitrc since SLiM doesn't even display any DEs, it just starts xfce after entering the password.

EDIT: hm, I think the "sessiondir" setting was just missing, readded that and now it works. Odd though that it wasn't there anymore.

Last edited by pfannkuchen_gesicht (2014-01-03 23:14:35)

root · 2014-01-03 23:43:26

If all is fine now please mark the thread as 'Solved'

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#1 2014-01-03 10:03:25

[SOLVED] SLiM env switching doesn't work

#2 2014-01-03 22:38:24

Re: [SOLVED] SLiM env switching doesn't work

#3 2014-01-03 23:07:22

Re: [SOLVED] SLiM env switching doesn't work

#4 2014-01-03 23:43:26

Re: [SOLVED] SLiM env switching doesn't work

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