Icons instead of taskbar possible?

[Jack Coates]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 07:28, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:23:15PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > 
> > > I also have an /etc/xfce4/xinitrc file, so you might wanna check this as 
> > > well.
> > > 
> > Deleting the xftaskbar4 line from this file fixed my problem.
> > 
> > So why is /etc/xfce4/xinitrc being run in preference to my local ones?
> > I have both $HOME/.xfce4/xinitrc and .xinitrc.  However, on looking,
> > the $HOME/.xinitrc file hasn't got the executable bit set, I'll check
> > if that is affecting anything.
> > 
> No effect.
> 
> The *only* file X seems to execute at startup is /etc/xfce4/xinitrc,
> it's ignoring all the ones in my home directory.  I'll see if I can
> follow what X startup is doing (this is on a pretty well bog standard
> Slackware 9.1 installation).

IIRC, this is how it goes:
gdm/xdm/kdm/mdkdm/*dm calls an Xsession file for XFce4.
That file calls startxfce4
startxfce4 looks for xinitrc files in /etc/xfce4, ~/.xfce4/,
/usr/local/etc/xfce4, and probably a few other places, like the sock
drawer. It then uses whichever one it found first.
--
Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
**********************************************************************
* "In my prison cell I think these words, 'I was careless I can see  *
* that now...'"                                                      *
* -- No One Knows My Plan from John Henry by They Might Be Giants    *
**********************************************************************