Ttyjfyk

I ran a fresh Minimal install of Cent OS 7. When finished, I run this command to get the GUI setup:

yum -y install epel-release;yum update -y;yum groupinstall "Xfce" -y;yum -y groupinstall X11;echo "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc;sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target;systemctl isolate graphical.target;yum -y install sddm; systemctl stop gdm.service; systemctl disable gdm.service; systemctl enable sddm.service

Reboot, Login, SDDM is really finicky. At first I can click on a xfce4 launcher to launch terminal, after that I can't drag/resize the window with the mouse, I can't close/maximize/minimize with the mouse. I think the problem has to do with what window is in focus. For example, if I click in the black space of the terminal window, Now I can only click inside the terminal space and nowhere else. If I try to hover my mouse over the Icons, they don't light up. The only way to get out of the terminal window is to right-click the black space in the terminal window which brings up the context menu. When the context menu is brought up, I can then click on anything I want (because now the context menu has focus which somehow fixes it). If I click in the black space in the terminal window, the problem repeats.

Here is what fixes the problem until reboot:

systemctl restart ssdm.service

If I run that command, re-login, its fixed until reboot.

So either:

A. I need the proper fix. (I prefer this method please)

B. I need a way to run this command on boot.

Additional Info:

systemctl status sddm.service

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor
preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-03-06
21:46:40 CST; 13h ago
Docs: man:sddm(1)
man:sddm.conf(5) Main PID: 5410 (sddm) CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
├─5410 /usr/bin/sddm
└─5444 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/1c6b25a2-4aa9-47de-b502-2f6d5333000a -background none
-noreset -displayfd 17 vt1

systemctl status gdm.service

gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

The answer is I needed startx to run after login. Since I am running XFCE, I have available to me "Session and Startup". Start>Settings>Session and Startup. Add command:

startx

To add using command line:

mkdir ~/.config/autostart
touch ~/.config/autostart/startx.desktop
echo -e "[Desktop Entry]nEncoding=UTF-8nVersion=0.9.4nType=ApplicationnName=startxnComment=startxnExec=startxnOnlyShowIn=XFCE;nStartupNotify=falsenTerminal=falsenHidden=false" > ~/.config/autostart/startx.desktop

This is probably not the cleanest way to do it because the screen flashes... other than that works perfect.