Can't Start xfwm4

[Olivier Fourdan]

John,

You want to run xfwm4 alone, and indeed it's what you get... A window
manager w/out any app is fairly useless.

You'll have to run at least a terminal to be able to type commands and
run apps.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 23:19, John Lowell wrote:
> 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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