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From: dhk <dhkuhl@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:15:36
Message-Id: 4B71B9E2.2050207@optonline.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please! by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
3 >> Hi, Gentoo,
4 >>
5 >> The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in "The
6 >> Xfce Configuration Guide", I did
7 >>
8 >> # emerge -avt xfce4-meta
9 >>
10 >> followed by
11 >>
12 >> $ echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc
13 >>
14 >> followed by
15 >>
16 >> $ startx.
17 >>
18 >> The X-server complained about not finding startxfce4. A quick find
19 >> command, "find / -name startxfce4" (and I do mean quick - it took only
20 >> half a second :-) demonstrated a complete absence of a file with that
21 >> name.
22 >>
23 >> Help, please! What do I need to do to get xfce running?
24 >>
25 >> --
26 >> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
27 >>
28 >>
29 > Humm....that worked for me:
30 >
31 >
32 > firefly ~ # which startxfce4
33 > /usr/bin/startxfce4
34 > firefly ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/startxfce4
35 > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/startxfce4 in *... ]
36 > xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 (/usr/bin/startxfce4)
37 > firefly ~ #
38 >
39 > mark@firefly ~ $ cat .xinitrc
40 > exec startxfce4
41 > mark@firefly ~ $
42 >
43 > Do and emerge -pvDuN @world/revdep-rebuild -ip and make sure you are
44 > really clean. It should work but the info above should allow oyu to
45 > get it running.
46 >
47 > I didn't need to do anything special here.
48 >
49 > Hope this helps,
50 > Mark
51 >
52 >
53
54 Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it.

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