I just reinstalled almalinux-9 after an selinux screw-up and cannot get xfce to work. I've installed all the requisite packages, but the gdm login screen no longer shows an option to select a different desktop (i.e. no "gear" icon). I tried pointing ./xinitrc to "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" but no joy. I installed the switchdesk package and ran "switchdesk Xfce" program reports "Desktop now set up to run xfce" but logout/login still comes up as the butt-ugly almalinux default desktop.
Xfce worked fine on this machine prior to the reinstall. What am I missing?
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 10:57, John Thompson johndthompson@gmail.com wrote:
I just reinstalled almalinux-9 after an selinux screw-up and cannot get xfce to work. I've installed all the requisite packages, but the gdm login screen no longer shows an option to select a different desktop (i.e. no "gear" icon). I tried pointing ./xinitrc to "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" but no joy. I installed the switchdesk package and ran "switchdesk Xfce" program reports "Desktop now set up to run xfce" but logout/login still comes up as the butt-ugly almalinux default desktop.
Xfce worked fine on this machine prior to the reinstall. What am I missing?
I would expect that the system is coming up in Wayland versus X and so the xinitrc and switchdesk are not used.
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Il giorno mar 12 lug 2022 alle ore 16:57 John Thompson < johndthompson@gmail.com> ha scritto:
I just reinstalled almalinux-9 after an selinux screw-up and cannot get xfce to work. I've installed all the requisite packages, but the gdm login screen no longer shows an option to select a different desktop (i.e. no "gear" icon). I tried pointing ./xinitrc to "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" but no joy. I installed the switchdesk package and ran "switchdesk Xfce" program reports "Desktop now set up to run xfce" but logout/login still comes up as the butt-ugly almalinux default desktop.
Xfce worked fine on this machine prior to the reinstall. What am I missing?
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Hi John, how do you installed XFCE?
Have you installed XFCE with:
dnf groupinstall Xfce
or
dnf install xfce4-*
?
Installing Almalinux 9 on my notebook I need to blacklist nouveau driver because GDM stuck an a black screen, After the blacklist all worked as needed but this seems not to be your problem.
This is a stupid question but I noticed that the gear icon appears when I select the user that I use for the login. Do you select an user?
Currently I'm using lightdm and works very well.
On 7/12/22 10:14, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
how do you installed XFCE?
Have you installed XFCE with:
dnf groupinstall Xfce
or
dnf install xfce4-*
I used dnf groupinstall "Xfce" "base-x"
Xfce4 and dependent packages were all successfully installed, but I can't set xfce as the desktop envirnment to use.
On 7/12/22 10:14, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
This is a stupid question but I noticed that the gear icon appears when I select the user that I use for the login. Do you select an user?
Not stupid at all. Selecting a user did make the gear icon appear, and I was able to select xfce desktop.
Thanks!
Il 12/07/22 20:34, John Thompson ha scritto:
On 7/12/22 10:14, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
This is a stupid question but I noticed that the gear icon appears when I select the user that I use for the login. Do you select an user?
Not stupid at all. Selecting a user did make the gear icon appear, and I was able to select xfce desktop.
Thanks!
Good to hear that you solve this.
Best regards
Alessandro.
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