icon-box does not work anymore

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 12/10/04 20:21, Jacques Montier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working on Gentoo an I upgraded from 4.06 to 
> 4.1.99.1
> My icon-box does not appear anymore.
> I think that all the settings are now in 
> ~/.config/xfce4 instead of ~/.xfce4/
> am i wrong ?
> 
> here is my ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc :
> 
> .....................
> # or use old-fashioned startup script otherwise
> xfce-mcs-manager
> xfwm4 --daemon
> 
> # Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart 
> directory, if it exists
> # (as it seems to be the new standard)
> if test -d "$HOME/Desktop/Autostart"; then
>   for i in `ls -1 -L ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 
> 2>/dev/null`; do
>     if test -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i; then
>       $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i &
>     fi
>   done
> fi
> 
> # xftaskbar4&
>   xfce4-iconbox&
>   xfdesktop&
>   panel=`which xfce4-panel`
> 
> ......................
> 
> Can you help me ?

did you actually remove the stuff above your "........" line?  if not, it's
likely starting the session manager, and the rest of the file isn't used.
in that case, just hit alt+f2 and run xfce4-iconbox, and be sure to save
the session on exit.

if your xinitrc contains only what you pasted, then that should work.  from
inside X, check to see if xfce4-iconbox is in the process list.  if not,
try running it from a terminal.  if it fails, let us know if it printed
any output.

	-brian