Can't Start xfwm4

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:26:48PM -0400, John Lowell wrote:
> Trying to start xfwm4 as a stand-alone window manager together with the settings package as recommended in the manual, I created an ~/.xinitrc with one line
> 
> exec xfwm4
> 
> and get output from XFree86
> 
> xfwm4: error while loading shared libraries: libstartup-notification-1.so.0: can not open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Is reference being made here to a missing libstartup-notification-1.so.0 or to something its trying to open? I'm unclear on this point. In any event, what's the remedy I'll need to administer to fix the problem?

the proper method to start xfce4 is the command 'startxfce4'.
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