From: dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:17:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B71ED08.2000509@optonline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zl3i884q.fsf@newsguy.com>
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Possibly you installed something other than xfce4-meta?
>>
>> firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils
>> [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1
>> firefly ~ #
>
> I'm just seconding fireflys' report. I suspect xfce4 expects you to
> be starting X from a system script under /etc/X11 somewhere instead of
> startx. So may consider that method a secondary thing and therefor
> not install xfce-base/xfce-utils by default. (just a guess)
>
> I use the startx method too and don't recall doing anything special to
> get it to work.
>
> But maybe just installing or reinstalling xfce-base/xfce-utils will
> take care of the problem.
>
> Is xfce-base/xfce-utils already installed?
>
>
>
Again, do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it and
running startxfce4.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 18:00 [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-09 18:36 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 19:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 20:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-02-09 23:17 ` dhk [this message]
2010-02-09 19:39 ` [gentoo-user] " dhk
2010-02-10 11:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-10 15:33 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-10 15:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-10 16:37 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-10 20:32 ` Alan McKinnon
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