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visious5d

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[Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Hi, I just install arch on my laptop Dell G3 3779 - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and i can't start the desktop environment. I have installed the nvidia-dkms, xfce4 and xorg. Can you please help me? What went wrong?

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

How did you set up your ~/.xinitrc?

visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

No, can you please tell what can i do to fix it? touch ~/.xinitrc?

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

How did you expect startx to know what to do if you didn't configure it? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit

visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

I have installed the xorg-xinit package.and cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc. Still not working.

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Keep reading

visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

I did.

sudo cp ~/.xinitrc /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/.xinitrc

Still I have no luck. I don't know what else I do.

visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Is the driver correct? I found this too https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverR … 639/en-us/ the driver is different from arch repo https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … idia-dkms/
Also I have tried to install it manually and failed.

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Did you edit the ~/.xinitrc file as the linked reference directs you to do?

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visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

No I didn't edit it, because I don't what exactly to edit. Can you please give an example to edit it?

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

No I didn't edit it, because I don't what exactly to edit. Can you please give an example to edit it?

The wiki article that was linked by Scimmia gives an example. Since you said you installed xfce4, that's what you will have to start from ~/.xinitrc: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce#Starting

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visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Can you please give me a solution? Fuxino I didn't see your comment.

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visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Fuxino thank you so much for your help. It's working.

Last edited by visious5d (2023-05-01 16:38:04)

Fuxino

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Don't forget to mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and adding [Solved] to the title

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visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

One question I can't wifi menu in status tray, I have installed netwokmanager and enabled the service. There's something else, right?

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … Front-ends

visious5d

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

Thank you so much for your help guys. Now how do close this post as [Solved]?

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Re: [Solved] startx doesn't load the desktop environment

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p2097418

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … nes#Forums

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