Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

[Jc García]

2014-06-29 14:37 GMT-06:00  <covici@××××××××××.com>:

> I have tried xfce4 using startx and it worked great under openrc and I
> went to a lot of trouble to boot with systemd to keep using gnome, but
> maybe I will go back to xfce4 after all, if using startx with
> gnome-session gives problems.
>
If you want to run gnome-session from startx, I think your minimum
line should be:
exec /usr/bin/dbus-lauch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/gnome-session
I have eventually used that for long sessions, but I haven't got
around, making it not ask the keyring password, as I only use startx
for starting awesome now, when I don't want to use a lot of ram.

It comes to my mind a workaround for your case, you point out this
only happends when you leave gdm sitting there without starting a
session, wasting your ram anyway, so why don't you change your systemd
defalut.target to just multiuser.target, configure gdm to auto-login
your user, alias myxsession=sudo systemctl start gdm.service in your
.bashrc, and add proper line for your user with NOPASSWD parameter for
that on /etc/sudoers, I would do that if I didn't logged into a X
session right away after boot.

Its a shame it's going bad for you, I've actually had a good
experience with the versatility of systemd these past months, and
gnome has become a nice desktop in my opinion.

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