Display Manager in XFCE

[Victor Rodriguez]

HI team

I am still very new on XFCE ( learning in progress ) . I have finally
done the configuration of XFCE from scratch ( building my own distro
just for fun ) icons and fonts are working fine ( proud of it )

However now I am facing the problem that just the root account can
start the xfce session . I have chose lightDM as my display manager  (
after reading some threads and forums ) .

After few days compiling it and their dependencies ( libxklavier,
iso-codes, libgp.. and some others ) I have finally build the lightDM
and the lightDM-gtk-greeter

Now my problem is .. how do I set it up ( yea shame on me,  I know )
. I have being checking the fedora spec file :

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/lightdm.git/tree/lightdm.spec

And they provide the ligthDM.service that systemd will use .

Reading the arch linux wiki :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM

They mention the option of :

$ lightdm --test-mode --debug

But for me, with my binaries it is showing me the error:

[+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.10.3, UID=0 PID=11598
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module unity
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module surfaceflinger
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat: Starting
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating greeter session
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat: Failed to find session configuration default
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat: Failed to create greeter session

I know that I still need to configure the service in order to make the
greeter start every time I boot up, how can I know if the greeter will
work before set it as default boot up service

In summary

Does anybody has a better documentation of lightDM where I can read ?

Has anybody configure lightDM in XFCE before with these problems

Thanks a lot for all your help


Regards

Victor Rodriguez


BTW: I have build lightdm like

 %configure --disable-tests --enable-liblightdm-gobject --disable-static

and lightDM-gtk-greeter:

%configure --with-gtk2