Can't Start xfwm4

[John Lowell]

Jasper, Olivier, and Joe,

OK, we're definitely making progress. But, Jasper, I have a question for you
about the cp /etc/xfce4/menu.xml ~/.xfce4/menu.xml that you suggested I
perform so as to add the capability of being able to exit X. I have no such
file or directory /etc/xfce4/menu.xml. You know, I even checked the full
install of the xfce4 DE that I have on another machine and it shows no such
file or directory either. So I wonder if my distro is missing some package
needed both for the full xfce4 install and what we're trying to achieve in
this case with just the desktop. What package generates /etc/xfce4/menu.xml?
If we have it, I'll install it from our respository.

Anyway, as I mentioned, were making progress. Thanks to you, Joe and
Olivier.

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: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Can't Start xfwm4


> Op di 09-09-2003, om 20:38 schreef John Lowell:
> > Joe, Olivier, Jasper, and Biju,
> >
>
> No need to CC us, we're all on the list.
>
> They are all separate programs, so you can start them separately from
> .xinitrc. I suggest you do the following. Put this in your .xinitrc:
>
> xfce-mcs-manager
> xfwm4 --daemon
> xfce4-iconbox &
> xfdesktop
>
> Then, before starting x, cp /etc/xfce4/menu.xml ~/.xfce4/menu.xml , and
> in that file uncomment the 'quit' option (near the end); it is xml so
> comments are between <!-- and --> .
>
> Then run startx and you will have a window desktop mouse menu to start
> programs from and that let's you logout of X.
>
> If you install the xfce-utils package you will get a run dialog as well,
> which is not available otherwise.
>
> Jasper
>
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