Newcomer queries

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op wo 13-08-2003, om 23:40 schreef Brandon Wittenburg:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:07, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 21:48, John Pettigrew wrote:
> > > Hmm. I have copied the xinitrc file from /etc/xfce4 to my ~/.xfce4 directory,
> > > and changed it as suggested. However, I am still getting the taskbar and not
> > > the iconbox. Is there anything else I need to do to ensure that my personal,
> > > xfce-specific xinitrc is being run?
> > 
> > chmod +x ~/.xfce4/xinitrc
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> Hello. I am also curious about this. It is not working for me either. I
> have:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 brandon brandon	1589 Aug 13 11:43 xinitrc
> 
> for permissions on ~/.xfce4/xinitrc
> 
> and "xfce4-iconbox&" where "xftaskbar4&" was inside xinitrc.
> 
> And I have a line when X is started (using startxfce4) that reports it
> is using the file from /home/brandon/.xfce4/xinitrc.
> 
> But I still get the taskbar. I can start the iconbox manually, and I
> have the menu option for the iconbox in the settings manager.
> 
> I am running XFCE4 that I compiled using Gentoo's portage system. It is
> labeled as version 3.99.2. I also have XFCE version 3.8.18 installed on
> the same system, if that matters.

Hey Brandon,

If you have installed xfce4-session, it will start the session manager
instead of the other programs.

If that is the case, open a terminal and type

 $ killall xftaskbar4

Then start the iconbox. At shutdown you can check the option to save the
session.

	Jasper