Arch Linux

paritosh.aggarwal

Member

Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 18

A couple of questions

So I just installed Arch a few days ago, and I have a few questions,will appreciate any help.

1. Is there any way to start into a GUI directly, without using the terminal to login?
2. While I am using the terminal to login, I use startx to start the Xserver and it opens 3 terminals in the GUI'd screen-then I type in gnome-session and it still keeps the 3 terminals - If i close the terminal windows,it closes Xserver and Gnome too. Any suggestions?

elasticdog

Member

From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

Website

Re: A couple of questions

Here ya go...
1.) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM
2.) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome

paritosh.aggarwal

Member

Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 18

Re: A couple of questions

hey thanks for the quick reply. i installed gnome n gdm. but i have an empty password for root, and now gdm wont let me login. I try using ctrl alt backspace n it goes to terminal but then it returns back to gdm. whats the default password to be used here? or is there any method of accessing terminals even in this context too?
any help would be appreciated.

bigbob73

Member

From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2006-07-19

Posts: 89

Re: A couple of questions

hey thanks for the quick reply. i installed gnome n gdm. but i have an empty password for root, and now gdm wont let me login. I try using ctrl alt backspace n it goes to terminal but then it returns back to gdm. whats the default password to be used here? or is there any method of accessing terminals even in this context too?
any help would be appreciated.

CTRL + ALT + F1 and login as root.  Change password with 'passwd'.  Make sure you create one user account, so you don't have to long into x as root.

wantamad

Member

Registered: 2007-01-18

Posts: 42

Re: A couple of questions

if ever you couldnt start x with your normal user, create an .xinitrc file in your home directory and in it, exec /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-session (forgot the full path) and that should work