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Kimonas

Member

Registered: 2018-01-27

Posts: 7

GDM can't log in with Xorg

At the login screen if I go to tty2 and use startx then the Xorg session starts without issues. But when I select from GDM "Gnome on Xorg" and try to log in it brings me back to the login. My .xinitrc is this

#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

#twm &
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

export GDK_BACKEND=x11
exec gnome-session

Any suggestions?

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,433

Re: GDM can't log in with Xorg

Maybe some GDM switch over bug, do you use wayland actively in any shape, or would configuring GDM to simply use xorg itself be sufficient?

Kimonas

Member

Registered: 2018-01-27

Posts: 7

Re: GDM can't log in with Xorg

Maybe some GDM switch over bug, do you use wayland actively in any shape, or would configuring GDM to simply use xorg itself be sufficient?

I tried the WaylandEnable=false but then it would only try to login with Xorg and the same behavior happens (back to login). I was using wayland most of the time since it is newer than X, but nothing more than that. It just annoys me that gdm behaves like this. For the time being I can keep on using wayland and go through TTY and startx if I want Xorg, but I was hopping for an easy solution like an edit in a conf or something like that.