how do i autostart nitrogen?

gmariz · 2021-04-22 01:43:03

hi!

So i've been using dwm for 2-3 weeks but i have not gone through the trouble of adding a wallpaper as i didn't have time for doing so.
Then today i came to the decision i would try to do it but i've tryed adding
exec nitrogen --restore &
to the /etc/lightdm/Xsession file but it hasn't worked if anyone could try helping me i would be very glad!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-22 05:50:04

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xprofile but note that neither 'exec' nor '&' are needed for your nitrogen command.

If you only want the command to be run for the dwm desktop then copy /usr/share/xsessions/dwm.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions/dwm-session.desktop (or so) and change the "Exec=" line to call a custom startup script (which must be executable and in your user's PATH), for example:

Exec=dwm-session

Then create /usr/local/bin/dwm-session:

nitrogen --restore
dwm

gmariz · 2021-04-22 10:30:10

Hey so i’ve done that and it starts nitrogen but sadly it doesn’t start dwm
Should i invert the order on the usr/local/bin/dwm to:

dwm
Nitrogen —restore

So that it starts dwm before nitrogen?

gmariz · 2021-04-22 10:48:28

gmariz wrote:

Hey so i’ve done that and it starts nitrogen but sadly it doesn’t start dwm
Should i invert the order on the usr/local/bin/dwm to:
dwm
Nitrogen —restore
So that it starts dwm before nitrogen?

Hey so i have done that but now it doesn’t start not even nitrogen

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-22 18:11:37

Did you revert your modifications to /etc/lightdm/Xsession? I've just tested my suggestions with GDM and they do work for my Arch system. Check the journal for clues.

gmariz · 2021-04-23 10:07:45

hey so i have reverted the changes in lightdm but t still doesnt work it now actually doesn't boot and after gets me back on the login screen.
do i need to run make clean install so it works?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-24 17:41:23

Please post all of the relevant configuration files in full along with the contents of the journal from a failed boot.

gmariz wrote:

do i need to run make clean install so it works?

So you didn't install dwm with a PKGBUILD then? From where did you obtain the dwm session file?

gmariz · 2021-04-24 19:24:10

if you mean how i installed dwm i installed dwm through the official git repo and then running
make
make install

Arch Linux

#1 2021-04-22 01:43:03

how do i autostart nitrogen?

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