Starting a DM with openrc
Posted: 08 Sep 2017, 03:57
Since the inclusion of Artix repos to replace manjaro core repo (extra and communty are still used), openrc is now used for the init as well as service manager.
This means that /etc/mtab correction: /etc/initab is no longer used, which breaks our system for autostarting the Desktop Manager(DM) (and so the Desktop).
So far, i've found a couple of ways around this:
for example, if you're using LightDM,
install (live and to your extracted DE module) package : displaymanager-openrc (this supplies the openrc service for starting a DM)
edit /etc/conf.d/xdm
change line:
to
then you need to enable the xdm service:
and be sure to copy /etc/runlevels/default/xdm (symlink) to your DE module
some notes:
lxdm doesnt seem to be viable because of a bug which causes it to crash on first startup..
slim isn't included in the xdm openrc service script (although i have managed to get it to work via a roundabout way(lengthy))
This means that /etc/mtab correction: /etc/initab is no longer used, which breaks our system for autostarting the Desktop Manager(DM) (and so the Desktop).
So far, i've found a couple of ways around this:
for example, if you're using LightDM,
install (live and to your extracted DE module) package : displaymanager-openrc (this supplies the openrc service for starting a DM)
edit /etc/conf.d/xdm
change line:
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DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"
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DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm"
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sudo rc-update add xdm default
some notes:
lxdm doesnt seem to be viable because of a bug which causes it to crash on first startup..
slim isn't included in the xdm openrc service script (although i have managed to get it to work via a roundabout way(lengthy))