Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

[dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>> Hi, Gentoo,
>>
>> The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in "The
>> Xfce Configuration Guide", I did
>>
>>    # emerge -avt xfce4-meta
>>
>> followed by
>>
>>    $ echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc
>>
>> followed by
>>
>>    $ startx.
>>
>> The X-server complained about not finding startxfce4.  A quick find
>> command, "find / -name startxfce4" (and I do mean quick - it took only
>> half a second :-) demonstrated a complete absence of a file with that
>> name.
>>
>> Help, please!  What do I need to do to get xfce running?
>>
>> --
>> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>>
>>
> Humm....that worked for me:
> 
> 
> firefly ~ # which startxfce4
> /usr/bin/startxfce4
> firefly ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/startxfce4
> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/startxfce4 in *... ]
> xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 (/usr/bin/startxfce4)
> firefly ~ #
> 
> mark@firefly ~ $ cat .xinitrc
> exec startxfce4
> mark@firefly ~ $
> 
> Do and emerge -pvDuN @world/revdep-rebuild -ip  and make sure you are
> really clean. It should work but the info above should allow oyu to
> get it running.
> 
> I didn't need to do anything special here.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Mark
> 
> 

Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed?  Try installing it.