Difference between revisions of "Install Display Managers"

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=Display Manager Crashes (SystemD)=

After Arch and other Arch-based derivatives introduced a new internal process called '''SystemD''' relatively recently, many display managers would crash upon ~~attempted~~ to log out and back in ~~two or more~~ times. While this should have been resolved at the time of writing, more experienced users encountering this problem can manually configure their display manager by editing the '''/etc/pam.d/[display manager]''' configuration file.

After Arch and other Arch-based derivatives introduced a new internal process called '''SystemD''' relatively recently, many display managers would crash upon attempting to log out and back in multiple times. While this should have been resolved at the time of writing, more experienced users encountering this problem can manually configure their display manager by editing the '''/etc/pam.d/[display manager]''' configuration file.

For example, where using SDDM, users would edit '''/etc/pam.d/sddm'''. For SLiM (already patched), it would be '''/etc/pam.d/slim''', and so on. Once open, just add the following line at the end of the configuration file to solve the issue:

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 =Display Manager Crashes (SystemD)=
-After Arch and other Arch-based derivatives introduced a new internal process called '''SystemD''' relatively recently, many display managers would crash upon attempted to log out and back in two or more times. While this should have been resolved at the time of writing, more experienced users encountering this problem can manually configure their display manager by editing the '''/etc/pam.d/[display manager]''' configuration file.
+After Arch and other Arch-based derivatives introduced a new internal process called '''SystemD''' relatively recently, many display managers would crash upon attempting to log out and back in multiple times. While this should have been resolved at the time of writing, more experienced users encountering this problem can manually configure their display manager by editing the '''/etc/pam.d/[display manager]''' configuration file.
 For example, where using SDDM, users would edit '''/etc/pam.d/sddm'''. For SLiM (already patched), it would be '''/etc/pam.d/slim''', and so on. Once open, just add the following line at the end of the configuration file to solve the issue: