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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4.  Help, please!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl3i884q.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5bdc1c8b1002091123k4759f5d9je63faf7962488126@mail.gmail.com

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?




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 21:10 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     ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2010-02-09 23:17       ` [gentoo-user] " dhk
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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