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Following this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up. From the process list it seems to be gdm based. If I kill gdm-wayland-session the window-manager restarts.

Update: It is possible to select the cogwheel and select xfce session. As root this starts up a xfce4-session.

As non-root the screen blanks and then the login screen reappears.

Following this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up. From the process list it seems to be gdm based. If I kill gdm-wayland-session the window-manager restarts.

Following this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up. From the process list it seems to be gdm based. If I kill gdm-wayland-session the window-manager restarts.

Update: It is possible to select the cogwheel and select xfce session. As root this starts up a xfce4-session.

As non-root the screen blanks and then the login screen reappears.

added guess about wm, fixed typo
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FollowinFollowing this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up. From the process list it seems to be gdm based. If I kill gdm-wayland-session the window-manager restarts.

Followin this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up.

Following this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up. From the process list it seems to be gdm based. If I kill gdm-wayland-session the window-manager restarts.

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xfce4 as default Windowmanager on Rocky Linux 9

Followin this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.

If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. This does not work as normal user.

There I get the error-message "Anzeige kann nicht geöffnet werden". Which states that the display can not be opened.

So obviously there is something missing to tell the os to use xfce.

On init5 a different WM starts up.