Problems with power manager and saving settings Gnome3

Hi guys,
I installed on my Arch Linux system two desktop environments: xfce4 und gnome-shell. On xfce4 anything is fine, but on gnome-shell some preferences were not saved. Especially the time (I'm living in Germany, and the System always shows local time + 1h) and the startup-applications which I setted with gnome-session-properites are saved but nothing happens on next startup (e.g. guake is in the list and is not started automatically).
An other point is that the desktop folder is not loaded (I setted it with gnome-tweak-tool), but when I manually start nautilus, it is shown.
The last point is the power manager. I'm working on laptop and the battery symbol is not shown. I can watch my battery status with executing 'acpi' but thats very annoying. Other components of the power manager are not working, too. The laptop turns off it's monitor, when nothing is done within approx. 10 minutes (I setted as well in the xfce power manager that the monitor should not be turned off as in the gnome-power-manager). I installed the gnome power manager simply with pacman -S gnome-power-manager. Just for you to know.
Thank you for reading this and hopefully you can help me...
pausch
PS: please do not mind my mistakes, i am german and do not natively speak english.
Last edited by pausch (2012-01-08 14:33:15)

pausch wrote:
@wonder
anything looks better now, i think gnome is not built to start that another way than starting gdm...
no, works fine with startx. you only need to add proper stuff in ~/.xinitrc like explained in the wiki.

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