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Hi, |
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I'm installing gentoo on the family computer, and I'm opting for lightdm |
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and xfce (for ease of use for non-experienced users). As per the wiki, I |
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emerged the packages, enabled and started the dbus and xdm services. |
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Lightdm starts fine, but xfce fails to start with the error: "Unable to |
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contact settings server; Unable to connect: connection refused". A few |
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things I tried: |
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- starting another DE (dwm) from lightdm: works |
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- starting xfce from startx: works |
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- starting xfce from a running x server (via terminal emulator): works |
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- remerging xorg with "elogind -suid": still the same (for simplicity |
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I'd prefer "suid -elogind" though) |
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What I noticed: |
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- the error seems to be dbus-related (from the source code, it seems |
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xfconf_init fails, which in turns calls dbus things); however I double |
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checked that dbus is enabled and started. |
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- when xfce starts successfully (eg. via startx), it starts |
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xfce4-session with dbus-launch (not sure where that happens; I see no |
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mentions of it in startxfce4 nor /etc/xdg/xcfe4/xinitrc), whereas when |
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started from lightdm, xfce4-session is started normally (without |
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dbus-launch) |
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I'm not used to graphical login managers, and I'm running out of ideas. |
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Does anyone have some idea of what I could try to get xfce running from |
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lightdm? |
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Thanks, |
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-François-Xavier |