[Solved] Starting xfce4 -> Getting the display for xauth

Stefan_xyz · 2019-09-01 12:23:45

I'm new to Arch but not to Linux. Also I'm writting this from my phone so excuse formating and gramatical errors.

I want xfce as my desktop environment.
I downloaded it and tried to run it with:

'startxfce4'

It then prints:

'usr/bin/startxfce: starting X server
waiting for Xserver to beginn accepting connections'

Then it prints some dots and then shuts down the PC (no error or anything I know of). (The same happens with 'startx')

Now i check my .Xauthority file which exists but is empty.
So i tried to generate one via 'xauth generate [...]' but for this I need to know the display and i didnt found a way to get it (":0" or "arch:0" didnt work).

Any ideas?

Last edited by Stefan_xyz (2019-09-01 13:02:59)

dockland · 2019-09-01 12:29:15

Hi Stefan_xyz and welcome onboard.

First things first. Is this a laptop perhaps with hybrid graphics?
Do you have a ~/.xinitrc?

Stefan_xyz · 2019-09-01 12:34:56

dockland wrote:

First things first. Is this a laptop perhaps with hybrid graphics?

I got an 1050ti and an i7 7700HQ with graphic support.

dockland wrote:

Do you have a ~/.xinitrc?

Yes i got the file. It is not empty the only changes i made was to uncomment everything below the '# start some nice programms' commentar.

Trilby · 2019-09-01 12:46:50

Stefan_xyz wrote:

Yes i got the file. It is not empty the only changes i made was to uncomment everything below the '# start some nice programms' commentar.

That would explain why startx doesn't do what you expect, though not why the system would shut down: please follow the wiki.

To troubleshoot the shutdown, please post your Xorg log and the journal from the previous boot (when the shutdown happened).

Stefan_xyz · 2019-09-01 13:02:36

Trilby wrote:

Stefan_xyz wrote:
Yes i got the file. It is not empty the only changes i made was to uncomment everything below the '# start some nice programms' commentar.
That would explain why startx doesn't do what you expect, though not why the system would shut down: please follow the wiki.
To troubleshoot the shutdown, please post your Xorg log and the journal from the previous boot (when the shutdown happened).

Okay i redone it and now it works. Thanks!

Im not quite sure why tho because before i changed the file it didnt work (neither as root nor a normal user) but now it works (as root and as a normal user)

Thanks for the quick replies.

Trilby · 2019-09-01 13:12:17

Ah, ok. That really shouldn't have fixed the shutdown.

But if it's working, so be it. But please also do not run X as root.

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#1 2019-09-01 12:23:45

[Solved] Starting xfce4 -> Getting the display for xauth

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