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Using OpenRC you need to create an .xinitrc entry to start the desktop too.

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~/.xinitrc:
exec startxfce4

This indicates a problem with Xorg. Properly installed X should be able to be run without a DM. It is strange that you could get into X with lxdm. I could theorize that probably when you reinstalled lxdm pacman picked up some missing dependency and installed it. Aside from providing your X log at the time when you failed to start X by the command startx, you should now try to just disable the service, without uninstalling the lxdm package and then try to run startx again.

The  xinit  program  is  used  to start the X Window System server and a first client program on systems that are not using a display manager such as xdm(1) or in environments that use multiple window systems.  When this first
       client exits, xinit will kill the X server and then terminate.

       If no specific client program is given on the command line, xinit will look for a file in the user's home directory called .xinitrc to run as a shell script to start up client programs.  If no such file exists, xinit will  use
       the following as a default:

            xterm  -geometry  +1+1  -n  login  -display  :0

       If no specific server program is given on the command line, xinit will look for a file in the user's home directory called .xserverrc to run as a shell script to start up the server.  If no such file exists, xinit will use the
       following as a default:

            X  :0

       Note that this assumes that there is a program named X in the current search path.  The site administrator should, therefore, make a link to the appropriate type of server on the machine, or create a  shell  script  that  runs
       xinit with the appropriate server.

The manpage for xinit(1) states:
The file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, as well as ~/.xinitrc, is just an ordinary shell script. If there is no ~/.xinitrc, the one in /etc gets executed by X when it starts without a display manager. The default contents of a /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is this:

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#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

As you can see, there is a number of lines near the bottom which call programs which might not be installed in your system. Those are:

• twm window manager
• xclock application
• xterm terminal emulator

What to do? You either have your own ~/.xinitrc, which conveniently just overrides all this nonsense from /etc, or simply comment out those lines calling the nonexistant programs and put some Xorg program as the last line, preceeded by exec. Alternatively, you could also install xorg-twm, xorg-xclock and xterm packages to get no error, but start those programs by xinitrc when you run startx. I also use dwm globally on my system, so I have exec dwm as the last line there. I haven't used lxde yet as my "daily driver", nor feel the need to in the future, so I'm afraid I can't help you with specifically setting it up to start without a DM. It could be as simple as putting exec lxde (or whatever the program to start lxde is called) to the end of xinitrc.

This reminded me, I might take the time and write a guide on how to set up Xorg to start dwm without a display manager.

Now every issue is resolved, besides the fact that I need to press enter once on the login screen before typing in my info since it gives me some message about a wpa supplicant, but that's small potatoes. I declare this issue solved at this point now that I'm finally free from lxdm. Thank you!