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#1 2010-12-10 19:35:48

bunburya
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From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: 2010-09-06
Posts: 64

Running awesome3 without a DM

Hi all, I'm currently running Awesome3 through GDM, which is there because I formerly ran Gnome (which is still installed). I'm going to be reinstalling Arch in a couple of days, and I'm thinking of just running Awesome without any DM, via startx/xinitrc. But when I do that on my current install, I find a couple of things don't quite work right in Awesome when I load it directly via startx, and I haven't found any info on them on the Wiki (maybe I'm not looking in the right places).

First fonts seem strange, and conky for example can't recognise certain characters.

Second, several essential commands such as shutdown and reboot aren't recognised in the shell.

Neither of these problems occur in Awesome when loaded via GDM. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Cheers!

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#2 2010-12-10 20:14:38

Misfit138
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From: USA
Registered: 2006-11-27
Posts: 4,189

Re: Running awesome3 without a DM

Configure your ~/.xinitrc to utilize consolekit; I believe that may be your issue.

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#3 2010-12-10 21:11:14

bunburya
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From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: 2010-09-06
Posts: 64

Re: Running awesome3 without a DM

Misfit138 wrote:

Configure your ~/.xinitrc to utilize consolekit; I believe that may be your issue.

Thanks, I'll have a look into it!

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