xfce no root window?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:43:09 +0530
Biju Chacko <botsie at myrealbox.com> wrote:
...
> 
> As for xfce4, it is still under development so the helpful scripts
> haven't been written yet. You can still get it running pretty well by
> putting the following lines in your .xinitrc:
> 
> xfce-mcs-manager &
> xfwm4 &
> xfdeskmenu &
> xfbd4 &
> xfmouse4 &
> exec xfce4
> 

Small correction: only put '&' after xfdeskmenu. The other programs run
in the background by themselves. Especially the xfce-mcs-manager and
xfwm4 first do their required initialization and then go into daemon
mode so it's important not to use the '&'.

	Jasper

> Run xfbd4 -i to change the background image.
> 
> -- b
> 
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