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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4.
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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.