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mmejia

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Registered: 2007-03-10

Posts: 3

startx and gnome-volume-manager

Hi everyone,
Anyone knows why gnome-volume-manager does not work with startx? It works fine when i log in with gdm, but i just want to startx at boot and modified .bashrc by following instructions here. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot.
Im in storage and optical groups and i have this in rc.conf:

$cat /etc/rc.conf|grep DAEMONS                            
# DAEMONS
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal alsa acpid)

$cat .bashrc 
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/vc/1 ]]; then
  startx
  logout
fi

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

noriko

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From: In My Mind

Registered: 2006-06-09

Posts: 535

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Re: startx and gnome-volume-manager

i think this has to do with issue of gnome needing gdm (security issues maybe, i dunno) but some thing like the shut-down menu options don't work unless you use gdm ... i don't think there is a work-around

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mmejia

Member

Registered: 2007-03-10

Posts: 3

Re: startx and gnome-volume-manager

OK, i'll install gdm then i hope someone make an update or a workaround in the wiki cause im a noob in arch, i come from ubuntu .
Thanks for your interest!