On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Fabio Erculiani <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Wolfden <[email protected]> wrote: > > The daily XFCE hasn't boot properly in the last 3 weeks. I figured as we > > switched over to systemd it would work out eventually, but posting > anyway. > > > > XFCE boots up to the XMD login box, which is a weird looking box, I don't > > recall ever seeing this. > > > > I check the /etc/conf.d/xdm and display manager is set to "xdm" I > believe > > it should be set to "gdm" since that is what is installed. I change to > > "gdm" than issue > > > > systemctl stop xdm > > systemctl status xdm and it reports it dead > > systemctl start xdm > > > > and I am brought back to the xdm login box, as if systemd doesn't use the > > /etc/conf.d/xdm file. I have no idea if it does or doesn't as I a noob > to > > systemd. > > systemd does not use the braindead /etc/conf.d/xdm. > > > > > > -- > Fabio Erculiani > > ahhh thanks for the tip I did some digging in the package list and I am no seeing a package for lxdm, which is what I believe it use to be and it's not there. So equo install lxdm and I edited the xdm.service file and it's set to xdm so I edited for lxdm /usr/sbin/lxdm restarted xdm and I got the lxdm and was able to log into xfce desktop So two things - need to have lxdm and edit xdm.service file pointing to it -- KJS ~wolfden~
