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