On 21/09/11 22:58, rypervenche wrote: > I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed > the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am > still unable to mount drives, start mylogin keyring, and shutdown via > the GUI (shutdown and restart are grayed out). I even tried adding the > proper command to visudo, but no success. > > Things I have tried to solve this... > > 1. Creating ~/.xinitrc with "startxfce4", "exec startxfce4", and > something with ck-launch(er?) in it as well. I have tried adding > #!/bin/bash, #!/bin/sh to the beginning and making the file executable. > None of these have worked. > > 2. As per the doc file, it says not to use a .xinitrc file but a > .xsession file, so I have tried the same things with that still with no > success. > > 3. Adding my user to the list of sudoers to give myself the permissions > to shutdown and restart, but even that does not work. > > I am currently using lightdm, however I would like to be able to start > my computer straight from the command line if possible. Is it possible > that because I am using Testing that I am missing some vital package(s) > for this to work properly? > > Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you. > >
I'm assuming you have xdm installed:- $ dpkg --get-selections xdm If yes, what happens when you?:- # /etc/init.d/xdm start Also, what Debian release are you running? Cheers -- "People say to me, "Bill, quit bringing up Kennedy, man. Let it go. It was a long time ago. Just forget about it." All right, then don't bring up Jesus to me. I mean, as long as we're talking shelf-life here. "You know, Bill, Jesus died for you …" Yeah, it was a long time ago. Forget about it. How about this: get Pilate to release the [beep]in' files. Quit washing your hands, Pilate, and release the files. Who else was on that grassy Golgotha that day? Oh yeah, the three Roman peasants in $100 sandals" — Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7aebd3.90...@gmail.com