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YOunGOne

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Registered: 2015-08-27

Posts: 3

Unable to boot straight into GNOME DE

Hi,

I initially had KDE and installed GNOME as well. After removing KDE, I boot into the console instead of GNOME.

From the console, I have to manually enter:

 sudo systemctl start gdm 

I've tried

 sudo systemctl enable gdm 

as I've read that this should point the OS to boot into GNOME but entering that gives me:

 Failed to execute operation: File exists 

Thank you in advance.

ms-nil-sage

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Registered: 2015-08-24

Posts: 2

Re: Unable to boot straight into GNOME DE

GDM is just a display manager though, without a WM (such as the full gnome ui environment), the display manager has nothing to do. Please, read the wiki FIRST.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM
You need to pass

sudo systemctl enable gdm.service

the gdm3service package might be a good fit for you, so you don't have to worry about the details of the install manually.

Silkworm205

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From: UK

Registered: 2012-05-21

Posts: 267

Re: Unable to boot straight into GNOME DE

I think the actual problem here is that the OP didn't remove the KDE login manager systemD link when he removed the software, so it still has a (broken) service link for display-manager.service.
Try running

sudo systemctl enable gdm --force

and this will remove the existing display manager link and put one to GDM in its place.

Last edited by Silkworm205 (2015-08-28 09:08:49)

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