Replacing -3.8.18 with -4.0.0: panel crash

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op 2003-11-16 01:33:09 schreef Rich Shepard:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> > We'll need a bit more info then this to be able to help you.
> >
> > Can you try running xfce4-panel from an Xterm and look for error
> > messages?
> 
> Jasper,
> 
>   First, the mail list manager stops sending messages to me, but will
> not
> accept the confirmation message it sends out. This is the third or
> fourth
> time I've gone through this in the past couple of months. So, I've
> only
> today unsubscribed and resubscribed.
> 
>   Second, to bring you all up to date, I must say you caught me on
> that one,
> Jasper! If I cannot startx then I cannot run xfce4-panel from an
> xterm. :-)

You can put 'exec xterm' at the top of your .xinitrc and use startx.  
Then you can run startxfce4 from that terminal.

> But, I do have xfce4 running now. Sort-of.
>

Good.

>   Third, if I switch to a console (e.g., alt-ctrl-F1) then back to  
> the
> X
> session (ctrl-alt-F7), the xfce display is very dim rather than the
> full
> brightness it was before. Curious.
>

Very. Sounds like and X / video card issue.

>   Fourth, I now have a new problem: there's no libtempter.so.0, or  
> any
> libtempter*. How strange! So I cannot open a virtual terminal in X.
> What
> component of xfce4 might I be missing here?
>

That library is certainly not part of xfce. In fact I never heard of  
it, nor do I have it on my system.

	Jasper