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Princee

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Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

In the GDM installation instructions on the wiki, it tells me to run the following to start GDM at boot-time:

# systemctl enable gdm

I have run this, but I still boot in terminal-mode.

In addition, to create the necessary configuration file, I run:

# touch /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-background

But apparently, no such file or directory exists. Upon further observation, I found that /dconf doesn't even exist in /etc!

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

Try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … ay_manager

jasonwryan

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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Princee

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

# systemctl enable gdm

worked out of the box (however I still boot into a terminal).

The wiki directed me to xprofile for autostarting; it says that:
"All of these execute, directly or indirectly, ~/.xinitrc (usually copied from /etc/skel/.xinitrc),or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc if it does not exist."

However, none of these files/directories exist on my system. What action should I take?

Thanks!

jasonwryan

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

The wiki makes it clear that you don't use .xinitrc with GDM. Any applications or changes that you would run from that file are instead placed in ~/.xprofile.

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Princee

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

# ~/.xprofile

yields

-bash: /root/.xprofile: No such file or directory

Did I botch my install (or, rather, am I being stupid again)?

Trilby

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

First, ~/.xprofile is a file, not a command - so you will not be able to execute it the way you just tried.  Second, you should be looking at the file in your user's home folder, not root's.

Third, given the above issues, I highly doubt you will be happy with archlinux.  Perhaps you should get your feet wet with some other distros first.

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karol

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Re: Problem installing GDM; I suspect missing directories

Why are you trying to boot X with root?
Create that file for your user, if it doesn't exist.