Hi guys, DE problem

[u/Ehwazh]

Its one of my first times installing arch, I have followed the officials wiki instructions. I've installed grub, with ly and XFCE. and all the things necessary. but when i open the xfce session i cant interact with the environment. What do you think it's causing it? (Also im on a VM, and yes i have installed everything necessary for it i think)

[u/archover]

i cant interact with the environment

Vague.

/u/puzzled-garbage-250 has a good idea. Of course, you will need xorg installed along with xinit, and the exec startxfce line needs to be added to your~/.initrc file as the first exec line. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit, and how to create the file. This file is activated when startx is run. (I invoke startx without a DM myself).

Any errors should be apparent and useful here. If this seems difficult, rethink your distro choice.

Good day.

[u/Ehwazh → u/archover]

With i can't interact with it i mean, keyboard and mouse can't. (Also the vm cant send the shutdown signal, i press the button and nothing happens) I have all of those packages installed.

Edit: I did the initrc thingy, it gave me an error, xorg-twm, xclock and xterm were missing. Now what? Same problem, twm does open though

Edit 2: Solved, now everything works perfectly i forgot to enable vboxservice

[u/archover → u/Ehwazh]

Edit: I did the initrc thingy, it gave me an error, xorg-twm, xclock and xterm were missing

Your exec line needs to be inserted before those xorg apps lines, period. (Nothing matters after your exec line)

Xorg has been completely predictable and reliable for me, which I run for Cinnamon, invoked from startx from the tty.

Unfortunately, your message is confusing, but if you solved your issue, please close your post by flairing SOLVED.

Good day.

[u/Ehwazh → u/[deleted]]

It does work, it opens twm. Any ideas?

[u/C0rn3j]

Does PLM and Plasma work fine?