xfce4

[Landy Roman]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 04:32:28 +0100
MisterMoe <MisterMoe at hackerboard.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> If you would have read the good HOWTO by Jasper some of your
> questions(almost all of them) would have been answered already.
> 
> After adding the lines to the .xinitrc you may start xfce4 with
> startx.

#!/bin/sh
#
### Added by xfce_upgrade version 3.8.12 ###
# Set up additionnal fonts that ship with Xfce (Change
id38121117)
xset fp+ "/usr/local/share//xfce/fonts"
### End of changes version 3.8.12 ###
#
#!/bin/bash
#
# .xinitrc
#

#
# What we do if we fail at least ... emergency fall back.
#
failsafe="xterm -ls -T Failsave -geometry 80x24-0-0"
trap "exec $failsafe" EXIT SIGHUP SIGINT SIGPIPE SIGTERM SIGIO

#
# Some bash (1 and 2) settings to avoid trouble on a
# failed program call.
#
test -n "$BASH" && set +o posix
no_exit_on_failed_exec=1
type shopt > /dev/null 2>&1 && shopt -s execfail
set +e > /dev/null 2>&1

#
# This should be the default
#
export TERM=xterm

#
# choose a window manager
#
if test -n "$WINDOWMANAGER" ; then
    WINDOWMANAGER=`type -p $WINDOWMANAGER`
fi
if test -z "$WINDOWMANAGER" ; then
    if test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/kde ; then
        WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde
    elif test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde ; then
        WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/startkde
    elif test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ; then
        WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2
    elif test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/wmlist ; then
        for i in `/usr/X11R6/bin/wmlist` ; do
            WINDOWMANAGER=`type -p $i`
            test -n "$WINDOWMANAGER" && break
        done
    elif test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ; then
        WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/twm
    fi
fi

if test -z "$WINDOWMANAGER" ; then
    echo "Error. Can not find a window manager.  Please install
one."
    echo "Exit for now."
    xmessage -timeout 10 -default okay -center -file - <<-EOF
	Error. Can not find a window manager.  Please install one.
	Exit for now.
	EOF
    exit 1
fi

#
# Load system and users resources if not already done
# (XSESSION_IS_UP set by xdm in $XLIBDIR/xdm/Xsession)
#
if test "$XSESSION_IS_UP" != "yes" ; then
    XLIBDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
    test -r $XLIBDIR/Xmodmap    && xmodmap $XLIBDIR/Xmodmap
    test -r $HOME/.Xmodmap      && xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
    test -r $XLIBDIR/Xresources && xrdb -load -retain
$XLIBDIR/Xresources
    test -r $HOME/.Xdefaults    && xrdb -I$HOME -merge
$HOME/.Xdefaults
    test -r $HOME/.Xresources   && xrdb -I$HOME -merge
$HOME/.Xresources
fi

# Start the XIM server:
test -r $HOME/.xim && source $HOME/.xim

#
# start some stuff
#


# day planer deamon
# pland &

xmodmap .Xmodmap

# 
# finally start the window manager
#
exec $WINDOWMANAGER 

# call failsafe
exit 0
xfce-mcs-manager
xfwm4
exec xfce4
here is my .xinitrc



i did read and i did add it but get that error

how do i start x now

startxfce and no problems