How to skip text-mode login on system startup?

everwisher · 2019-10-11 08:56:29

Hi, I'm a newbie in the world of Linux, especially for the Arch Linux in which I have to build up from scratch almost everywhere. But this is how I like it.

Now I'm facing with a dilemma after finished installing the lxdm display manager and the xfce4 desktop environment. I still have to type in the username and password in the text mode every time I reboot my computer and what's more, I have to type in

sudo systemctl start lxdm

to launch the desktop environment. I did have enabled the lxdm in systemd and I can see a symbolic link under the /etc/systemd/system directory called display-manager.service linking to /usr/lib/systemd/system/lxdm.service.

What's happening under the hood to prevent me from booting directly into desktop environment?

V1del · 2019-10-11 09:43:18

everwisher wrote:

I did have enabled the lxdm in systemd

Did you?

systemctl status lightdm

more generally https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into

WorMzy · 2019-10-11 09:44:14

Likely your default target (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Targets)

You're probably booting into multi-user, when it sounds like you want to boot to graphical.

everwisher · 2019-10-11 11:31:41

V1del wrote:

everwisher wrote:
I did have enabled the lxdm in systemd
Did you?
systemctl status lightdm
more generally https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into

Yes, I did. WorMzy's point sounds promising but I need to check it out thoroughly because I'm not quite familiar with the 'multi-user boot' things.

Thank you for replying

Arch Linux

#1 2019-10-11 08:56:29

How to skip text-mode login on system startup?

#2 2019-10-11 09:43:18

Re: How to skip text-mode login on system startup?

#3 2019-10-11 09:44:14

Re: How to skip text-mode login on system startup?

#4 2019-10-11 11:31:41

Re: How to skip text-mode login on system startup?

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