Can't Start xfwm4

[Joe Klemmer]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, John Lowell wrote:

> 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?

	It sounds like you aren't starting anything in your ~/.xinitrc 
file.  Can you post it to the list so we can see what you have?

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Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
Hoping to make Ozeki someday.