[SOLVED] Unable to start xfce4 from display manager

feng823 · 2019-09-25 00:52:30

I have been running slim and xfce4 for about a year. But in these days, when I login from slim, it always failed with the following error message

Unable to contact setting server
Could not connect: Connection refused

But I still can run startx to start xfce4 from tty.

How can I fix problem to start xfce4 from slim?

Thank you!

Last edited by feng823 (2019-09-25 06:36:14)

Trilby · 2019-09-25 00:53:56

The simplest solution is to stop using a 6-year-dead piece of software.

wiki (in big red box at top of page) wrote:

Warning: The SliM project has been abandoned (last release was 2013, the project homepage is down), and is not fully compatible with systemd, including logind sessions. Consider using a different Display manager or Xinitrc.

feng823 · 2019-09-25 01:03:55

Trilby wrote:

The simplest solution is to stop using a 6-year-dead piece of software.
wiki (in big red box at top of page) wrote:
Warning: The SliM project has been abandoned (last release was 2013, the project homepage is down), and is not fully compatible with systemd, including logind sessions. Consider using a different Display manager or Xinitrc.

Thank you for you reply.

Can you give me any suggestion for the substitution?

Trilby · 2019-09-25 01:19:19

FFS, read the wiki page already. The exact bit I quoted - the big red warning box right at the top of the slim page - includes a link to a list of other display managers.

Make some effort.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-09-25 01:19:39)

feng823 · 2019-09-25 01:25:46

Trilby wrote:

FFS, read the wiki page already. The exact bit I quoted - the big red warning box right at the top of the slim page - includes a link to a list of other display managers.
Make some effort.

I changed the display manager to LXDM. But the same error message pop up again.

seth · 2019-09-25 03:54:49

This typically means the session bus isn't in place.
Please post a complete system journal after such failed attempt, the output of "pacman -Qkk xfce4-session xfce4-settings" and try to login w/ a fresh user account.
If you've previously added "dbus-launch" somewhere, that'll be the cause.

feng823 · 2019-09-25 05:34:08

seth wrote:

This typically means the session bus isn't in place.
Please post a complete system journal after such failed attempt, the output of "pacman -Qkk xfce4-session xfce4-settings" and try to login w/ a fresh user account.
If you've previously added "dbus-launch" somewhere, that'll be the cause.

You are right. This may be a problem caused by "dbus-launch" which is called as follows to start fcitx after login in .xprofile.

eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"

The error message disappeared when the .xprofile is removed and xfce4-session start successfully.
The problem is solved.

Thank you for your reply.

Last edited by feng823 (2019-09-25 05:35:17)

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[SOLVED] Unable to start xfce4 from display manager

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