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taurus321

Member

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 23

how to install the dm to start xfce4

hi everybody:
     this time i am install the xfce4, i can input the  startx to startxfce4 .but i haven't hvae a dm to login ,
    i try that pacman -S xorg-xdm ,but when i edit the /etc/inittab file's last line ,then start os deamon output the error : can't execute the /usr/bin/xdm .
   i try the pacman -S kdm or gdm ,but no found the package.
   is somebody to tell me that which dm is fit the xfce4 .thanks ,

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: how to install the dm to start xfce4

Post your inittab file.

To get kdm: pacman -S kdebase
To get gdm: pacman -S gdm

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: how to install the dm to start xfce4

XDM is in xorg-xdm.

You might also want to check out slim, it looks quite a bit prettier than XDM and doesn't have Gnome or KDE deps.

(Just FWIW, you can search for something using 'pacman -Ss'.)

taurus321

Member

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 23

Re: how to install the dm to start xfce4

i  want to know what is the function of the kde-i18n-zh_cn package , and in the xfce4 have the same packages?