xfce4

[Landy Roman]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:17:05 +0100
Heiko Berges <hb-mlist+xfce at bsls.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:44:31PM -0500, Landy Roman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Here are some comments about what is basically wrong with the
> script, that may help you, or maybe not.
> 
> 
> > #!/bin/sh
> 
> Change this to  #!/bin/bash.  This is not part of your problem,
> but the script is full of bash'isms and would not work on a
> real bourne shell.
> 
> 
> > #
> > ### Added by xfce_upgrade version 3.8.12 ###
> 
> Whoever wrote the update script should think about what he have
> done here. 
> 
> 
> > # 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
> > #
> 
> 
> Comment this four lines out:
> 
>  # > exec $WINDOWMANAGER 
>  # > 
>  # > # call failsafe
>  # > exit 0
> 
> Otherwise it starts the standard WM and exits. 
> 
> 
> Handle these as it was told, I don't know about xfce4:
> 
> > xfce-mcs-manager
> > xfwm4
> > exec xfce4
> 
> 
> > i did read and i did add it but get that error
> > 
> > how do i start x now
> >
> > startxfce and no problems
> 
> I honestly have no idea what you mean.  As a non-native english
> speaker punctuation marks would have helped me a lot.


last night i got help from biju at the irc

happy to report i am able to see xfce4
http://64.192.214.17/4.jpg