LXDE not starting on Gentoo

[Havoc]

I installed LXDE on an ACER ASPIRE netbook. First I followed the Gentoo Wiki for installing Gentoo on the Acer, including X. X started fine after this, mouse detected, screen OK.

Next I followed the LXDE Wiki page for Gentoo. Didn't get any errors. As for starting I emerged XDM. According to the Wiki it should list LXDE. When I started XDM I got a loging screen and this brought me directly to standard X, not LXDE. As it was impossible to exit (even ctrl+alt+backspace) I repowered the pc and had some problems with lock files on the /tmp. Cleared those.

Now if I start X with startx I get a black screen with the mouse cursor, nothing else. I looked for ~/.xinit.rc but this doesn't exsist (didn't find one in /etc/X11 either). Running "startlxde" from promt does nothing. I have to break it with ctrl+C.Xdm gives the standard X (grey background with "xsm" and terminal window, working mouse.

Any ideas on how to get lxde running? Is there a template .xinit.rc?

xorg-x11 7.2
mesa 7.3-r1
lxde-common 0.3.2.1
lxde-meta not installed
openbox 3.4.7.2
lxsession 0 (???)
pcmanfm 0.5
lxpanel 0.3.8.1
gpicview 0.1.10

[Marty Jack]

Well, for one thing, the correct spelling is .xinitrc not .xinit.rc that may be all that is wrong.

You will probably get more help from the Gentoo people, who will be a lot more familiar with the details of how they expect things to start. There are several ways of doing it.

[Havoc]

I'll have a look there. But it seems to be something ugly with X.

I tried gdm in the mean time but it isn't better.

[archibald haddock]

I have installed it 3 times and had never problemes:
Followed the Minimal Install, configured X.
And then just "emerge -aqv lxde-meta".
Choose LXDE in gdm (or afair add startlxde to .xinitrc (I havenot done this yet, I will test it for you)).