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[SOLVED] No X on freshly installed Artix

Hi.
I installed an Artix on a VBox virtual machine, using Calamares from artix-lxqt-rolling-x86_64.iso .
At choosing packages, if i recall well, I chose
- system - network: all   (nothing else from system, the default)
- Xorg - Xorg base - xorg-server
           - Xorg drivers: virtualbox-guest-modules-artix only
- desktop - displaymanager - displaymanager-openrc
                - lxqt: all
and nothing else. (I'm on mobile net, that's metered and slow.)
I ended up with a console-only system.
I tried:
# rc-update add xdm default
# pacman -S xorg-xdm
to no avail.
Thanks for any idea in advance,
Laca

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #1 –
I suspect that you are using the old ISO. The new one is: artix-lxqt-20171015-x86_64.iso.
I got no problem to install it, after the last implementation.

You can find it in Sourceforge, the link is in the homepage of the site. Anyway its here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/artix-linux/files/iso/lxqt/

:)

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #2 –
is sddm installed?  If it is, did you try as root to run $sddm?

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #3 –
What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log show?
How are you starting X?
Do you have a display manager installed?
I use sddm and it worked with the original LXQT Artix ISO.
Is displaymanager-openrc installed?
To use with sddm, edit the /etc/init.d/xdm file:
Code: [Select]
DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm"
Then run:
Code: [Select]
#/etc/init.d/xdm
If the video driver is loaded, X should start. Then one can add it to the default run level to load X automatically on boot.

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #4 –
Quote from: fungalnet – on
is sddm installed?  If it is, did you try as root to run $sddm?


No, it wasn't. xorg-xdm was.
When I said
xdm
then it complained about missing of some library file.
Thanks.

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #5 –
Quote from: jspaces – on
What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log show?
How are you starting X?
Do you have a display manager installed?
I use sddm and it worked with the original LXQT Artix ISO.
Is displaymanager-openrc installed?
To use with sddm, edit the /etc/init.d/xdm file:
Code: [Select]
DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm"
Then run:
Code: [Select]
#/etc/init.d/xdm
If the video driver is loaded, X should start. Then one can add it to the default run level to load X automatically on boot.


Thank you, this works.
/etc/init.d/xdm: you mean, /etc/conf.d/xdm
#/etc/init.d/xdm
you mean
#/etc/init.d/xdm restart
One minor problem: when I installed, I set up in calamares so that it will log in without asking for a password. This does not work. I think that is meant for a special display manager, that's not sddm.
Thanks,
Laca

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #6 –
Quote from: Laca – on
One minor problem: when I installed, I set up in calamares so that it will log in without asking for a password. This does not work. I think that is meant for a special display manager, that's not sddm.
Thanks,
Laca

It does, on etc/sddm.conf

Code: [Select]
[Autologin]
# Whether sddm should automatically log back into sessions when they exit
Relogin=false

# Name of session file for autologin session (if empty try last logged in)
Session=

# Username for autologin session
User=yourusername

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #7 –
Quote from: fungalnet – on
It does, on etc/sddm.conf


Well, then maybe the problem was that I didn't select the package containing sddm while installing with calamares. Which was it? artix-sddm-theme? This "theme" is confusing, that's why I didn't select it.
Thanks

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #8 –
The theme (I believe) is only the graphical part of the login.  It has no functional difference.

Have you updated/upgraded everything, are your mirrorlists correct?
Just installing sddm "$ sudo pacman -S sddm" should pull all dependencies to get sddm running.
Also use this $ sudo pacman -S displaymanager-openrc
What will your desktop environment be? 

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #9 –
What I tried to speak about, after installation with calamares with this package selection:



, I ended up with no sddm in the installed system.
Well, I installed it afterwards manually with pacman, but i had to manually reconfigure it so that it logs in automatically without password.
That's why I asked, what else I had had to select?
Nothing told me that sddm was needed and which package provided it.
I wonder, what calamares in the previous step (Users/Felhasználók)  configured when I told it not to ask for password.
(Otherwise, I retried with the new image artix-lxqt-20171015-x86_64.iso , and ended up with the same error: https://artixlinux.org/forum/index.php?topic=124.0
with the difference that line 64 rather than line 54. This was OK with the previous image.)

Re: No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #10 –
It is the artix-sddm-theme that has a dependency of sddm probably no theme no sddm.

Re: [SOLVED] No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #11 –
I see. Thank you.
Set to SOLVED

Re: [SOLVED] No X on freshly installed Artix

Reply #12 –
I remember having an sddm login screen without this theme, I just liked the artix theme better than default.  But it has been a while (in artix history).