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Hey guys I just installed arch linux and downloaded and installed both openbox and xfce4. but when ever I type in startxfce4 I get this error message
Unable to create /home/mag1strate/.dbux/session-bux
Xfce4-session: Unable to-access file /home/mag1strate/.ICEauthority: Permission Denied
And when I try and use openbox I get a grey screen with my cursor. I exit out of it using the Ctrl Alt F2 and F1, and it gives me this error:
ERROR: xdg-autostart requires PyXDG to be installed
Openbox-Message: Unable to make directory "home/mag1strate/.local/share/openbox/sessions": permission denied
Thank you guys for your help
Last edited by mag1strate (2009-09-07 20:58:05)
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You're sure you have write access to your home directory, or any of its subdirs?
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How do I find out if I do? I usually know how in other graphical distros, but is their a special code to gain access?
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How do I find out if I do? I usually know how in other graphical distros, but is their a special code to gain access?
Type that at command prompt.
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it says:
lp wheel video audio optical storage power users mag1strate
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Nice. You have your own group?
And 'graphical' distros... Am I missing something? There is no such thing. You do know the concept behind Arch Linux, don't you? I trust you read the guides before installing Arch?
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Ok I have faced a similar problem in the pst, not sure if this is the same case, I had installed openbox and thunar as root and then could not login and when I changed the permission of xinitrc and managed to login as user, I couldn't access Thunar. So I'd suggest install sudo and then install everything as user [using sudo], that way directories and files get owned by user and not root and user has the proper permissions to them. This is just my experience though.
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ok I will try thanks sHyLoCk
and by graphical distros I meant one with a DE already in it, sorry about my misuse of words
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I tried using sudo to install the openbox, but it I will have to remove it before I do that. How do I remove a DE or a WM? b/c when I use sudo it only updates it no reinstalls it
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All sudo does is give you temporary root privileges. Using sudo to install packages instead of doing it through a regular root session (with su (-)) will not make the slightest difference.
Magistrate: run
ls -la ~
to see whether your user does own its own homedir and subdirs. Also, take a Linux 101 course on essential commands, if you want to stick with Arch, you need to catch up. This isn't Ubuntu, nor Windows, there is no GUI for everything. If that's what you want or need, you need to look elsewhere.
Edit: seriously! Read the manual! How do you manage to think you can only install but not remove packages?
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All sudo does is give you temporary root privileges. Using sudo to install packages instead of doing it through a regular root session (with su (-)) will not make the slightest difference.
This is absolutely true. However what I did was installed as root and not using su, which made all the permission reserved by root. thanks for pointing this out B.
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Sorry to offend you or anything B, but I know about arch and I've read the manual about what arch is all about and that is what drew me to it. But anyways i got this as an output:
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2009-09-07 10:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-09-07 23:19 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 668 2009-09-07 09:37 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 root root 5 2009-09-07 09:21 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-09-07 00:28 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-09-07 08:52.config
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2009-09-07 00:28 .dbus
-rw------- 1 root root 16 2009-09-07 09:17 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-09-07 10:29 .fluxbox
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2009-09-07 09:17 .mozilla
-rwxr-xr-x 1root root 284 2009-09-07 10:29 .xinitrc
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Cool thanks sHyLoCk
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thanks sHyLoCk that worked really well, but I can't seem to get my settings to save when I log out! Is there a way to do that?
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ShyLock and thisoldman are correct. Xfce has some option to save your session upon logout.
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yeah it does but for some reason the resolution and refresh rate won't stay put but all the themes stay the same!
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You don't set your resolution and refresh rate in your DE, those are set in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf. Read the Xorg section in the wiki please.
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Did you check the resolution settings in Xfce when that happens? Can we see your xorg.conf?
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here is my xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Modified_for_xorg-x11_kernel-2.6.6"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30.0 - 130.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
BoardName "RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BusID "PCI :1 :0 :0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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Try getting rid of the Modes from the Depth 24 Display SubSection and see if that works. It should give you the maximum resolution without any specification. I think that's probably why it switches resolutions randomly.
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ok cool, I'll try it!
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Sweet thank you so much Acecero that worked perfectly!!
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