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From: "François-Xavier Carton" <fx.carton@×××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start xfce from lightdm
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:19:12
Message-Id: 20201101151823.GA26341@reblochon
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start xfce from lightdm by netfab
1 On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 02:39:02PM +0100, netfab wrote:
2 > Le 01/11/20 ?? 13:32, Fran??ois-Xavier Carton a tapot?? :
3 > > I'm not used to graphical login managers, and I'm running out of
4 > > ideas. Does anyone have some idea of what I could try to get xfce
5 > > running from lightdm?
6 >
7 > It works fine here ?? (xfce + lightdm).
8 >
9 > Do you have :
10 > > session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
11 >
12 > Enabled in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ?
13 >
14 Yes. I did not edit this, so I think it's the default config.
15
16 > /etc/lightdm/Xsession is sourcing
17 > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/80-dbus
18 >
19 > which runs dbus-launch.
20 >
21 Ah, this might be the problem. I don't have that file, I only have
22 00-xhost in there. I checked the dbus ebuild, I need to enable the X use
23 flag. Will do, and report back :) Thanks for the pointer!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start xfce from lightdm [solved] "François-Xavier Carton" <fx.carton@×××××.fr>