Can't Start xfwm4

[John Lowell]

jasper & oliver,

Many thanks for your replies. I have managed to locate and install the
startup-notification package from the repository of my distro, Arch Linux.

Here's a follow-up question for you. As you know, I'm running exec xfwm4 via
a ~/.xinitrc file. Installing startup-notification certainly solved the
error message problem I was getting from XFree86, but I now reach xfwm4, and
the mouse functions properly, but there is nothing else there. I installed
the settings package as was recommended in the on-line manual, that is to
say xfce-mcs-manager, and have even tried opening it by adding the lines
exec xfce-mcs-manager and exec-settings-show to ~/.xinitrc but nothing
changes. I have the plain background and mouse mobility and that's all. I
had assumed that xfwm4 might function like fluxbox or openbox. I'm wrong
about this?

John Lowell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jasper Huijsmans" <jasper at moongroup.com>
To: "XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems."
<xfce at xfce.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Can't Start xfwm4


> Op ma 08-09-2003, om 21:26 schreef John Lowell:
> > 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?
>
> Either install libstartup-notification, which is available from
> freedesktop.org and probably packaged for your distro somewhere else, or
> rebuild xfwm4 (and probably the rest of xfce4 and possibly gtk) without
> libstartup-notification.
>
> Jasper
>
>
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