xfce4 - how to use?

[James Tappin]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:09:23 +0100 (BST)
Wenzhi Liang <wzhliang at yahoo.com> wrote:

WL> I managed to build xfce4 and xfwm4. But havn't a clue
WL> as how to use them. I changed my ~/.xinitrc file and
WL> make the last line look like:
WL> exec xfwm4,
WL> and got a blank screen.
WL> I changed it into:
WL> exec xfce4,
WL> and got a bare enviroment without window manager.
WL> 
WL> Could someone explain this to me?

A guess here, you might try:

xfwm4 &
exec xfce4

(or vice versa, depending whether you want exiting the panel (as here)
or the window manager to quit X).

James

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