[SOLVED] Dwm won't start

Arden · 2020-05-30 11:54:04

Good day, everyone!

I've been using i3wm for a long time and recently i decided to try dwm. I have dwm installed but regardless of what I do with the .xintitrc file, i3 starts up (even if I comment "exec i3" AND "exec dwm"). I have no idea what is causing this behavior and will be grateful for any help.

My .xintitrc file:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

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

# exec i3
exec dwm

Last edited by Arden (2020-05-30 13:23:39)

seth · 2020-05-30 12:23:25

How do you start X11? startx or xinit?

Trilby · 2020-05-30 12:36:09

This is a manjaro system?

Arden · 2020-05-30 13:10:30

seth wrote:

How do you start X11? startx or xinit?

I realized that I had to check my shell profile file. Changing "exec startx /usr/bin/i3" for "exec startx dwm" in .zprofile solved the problem.

Thank you for the hint!

seth · 2020-05-30 13:11:52

Starting "startx anything" is a bad idea to begin with.

Trilby wrote:

This is a manjaro system?

Arden · 2020-05-30 13:14:25

Trilby wrote:

This is a manjaro system?

No, I'am using Arch.

Trilby · 2020-05-30 13:40:58

If you want to use an ~/.xinitrc you should not have anything after `exec startx` in your shell profile.

I am curious, though, where that xinitrc came from. That is the default skeleton xintirc used in manjaro, parabola, and perhaps some other spin offs, but arch's has been quite different for a long time.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] Dwm won't start

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