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Cryptix_00

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Registered: 2008-07-16

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[SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

i installed entrance successfully, and i added the daemon to startup so it loads correctly on boot. i also installed xfce4 and edited my ~/.xinitrc and tested that with startx, it works fine.

however when i try to login from entrance the screen just gets some artifacts on it and goes black, then goes back to entrance, any ideas?

Last edited by Cryptix_00 (2008-07-18 17:50:43)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

Welcome to the forums Cryptix_00.

Normally I would suggest that you search first, but this one is hard to find. I believe that the solution begins somewhere on page 3.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42311&p=1

Cryptix_00

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Re: [SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

thank you very much for finding the link for me, as a quick solution to anyone else having this problem

change the line in /etc/X11/sessions/xfce4.desktop that says
exec=startxfce4

to

exec=/usr/bin/startxfce4

theringmaster

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Re: [SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

could you also do exec=xfce4-session?

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Cryptix_00

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Re: [SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

this is a minor grievance but in the default xfce terminal and in gnome terminal when i use "su" i get a "bash-3.2#" prompt instead of the

[root@archlinux ~]#  prompt

how do i change it? it was giving me the root one before and when i did "pacman -Ss fonts" it changed, very weird.....

Cryptix_00

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Re: [SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

no ideas on this one eh? i did some searching and a lot of people post stuff that has bash-3.2# in it, but i would really rather have the root@archlinux one...

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED]Entrance fails to load xfce4

The PS1 line in the .bashrc file of your root account was changed. Copy that line from the same file from your user account and it should go back to normal.