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jboons

Member

Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 37

XDM won't automatically start

Hey all. Just installed Arch tonight (all by myself!) and I'm loving it so far. I'm using Xfce and everything's been chipper. However, I've come across a minor problem. Arch will boot fine, but I can't seem to get it to boot to XDE. It just boots to the raw terminal; I have to log in the old-fashioned way and type 'startxfce4,' which is kind of a pain. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Here's my /etc/rc.conf, or at least the pertaining part:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa xdm)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: XDM won't automatically start

Did you follow http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager ?

jboons

Member

Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 37

Re: XDM won't automatically start

Did you follow http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager ?

Yes I sure did.

Edit: Problem solved. I was doing things as root.

Last edited by jboons (2010-09-25 19:40:45)