xfce no root window?

[Mark Welker]

Hi,

exec xfwm

instead of

exec /usr/bin/xfce
xfce will only give you the panel



On 27 Dec 2002, Timothy Wood wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just installed xfce 3.8.18 on a Red Hat 7.2 machine (using RPMS) and I
> changed my .xinitrc to read
>
> exec /usr/bin/xfce
>
> which is how I run it on my RH8.0 machine.  However when I start x I get
> the drawer panel but nothing else.  The root window stays that
> grey/white checker board, mouse clicks on the root window produce no
> menus ( left right or middle buttons) and when I pop up a window it has
> no border/titlebar and is stuck at (0,0).
>
> I thought maybe it had something to do with configuration files but no
> dice there so I installed xfce4.  xfce4 fixed the third problem, with
> the windows, but the root window problem still remains.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Timothy,
>
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Mark Welker
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