From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PvxYE-00042w-At for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:54:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6055D1C005; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3524C1C005 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LHL00G6NOJDTB80@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:52:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:51:54 -0500 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4D72945A.1010107@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 References: <4D6F8A1C.7010200@optonline.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110105 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 22940a11949e903e672a3faf1b53b833 On 03/03/2011 10:25 PM, daid kahl wrote: >> I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop >> (amd64). It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs. It never >> returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can >> switch to an alternate terminal. > > Strange. Never used LXDE, but KDE and Xfce I never had such a problem > with startx. Anyway, if you're serious about using it, probably > you'll want xdm and likely slim (since you're running something > lightweight). Yeah, I ran "startx" for two years because I'm that > lazy, but anyway, it's a good idea. > >>>From XDM you can get a terminal if you want. This is only at best a > work around (or indication of deeper problems), but you may try it. > > Just make sure you edit slim.conf for your login_cmd since for zsh you > get a little wrecked if you don't... > > Cheers, > daid > > After installing xfce4 I found out this problem is not an lxde problem it seems to be a desktop environment or windows manager problem. When I click the logout button in xfce4 it hangs also, it never brings me back to the command prompt. The only thing I can do is Alt-SysReq-EISUB which works really well and suggested in an earlier thread. I installed xdm and slim, but strange things happen with that. When I run /etc/xinit.d/xdm start the slim login appears, but the right half of my keyboard doesn't work right. For example when I press the "k" key a "2" is printed. Very strange. dhk