can't do xfce4 on sparc Solaris 2.7

[craig.betts at dfrc.nasa.gov]

Sounds like you need to set your enviornment in your .xinitrc script.  Try
setting both PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include your new xfce stuff (I am
assuming /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib in this case).  If this does
not work, you might want to try the Solaris packages from Chris Greenman:

http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.0.3.1/fat_tarballs/xfce-4.0.3.1-sol_sparc-pkgs_2.tar.bz2

Since you already compiled all the gtk stuff, this should be all that you
need.  There is, however, a little error in a file.  Just edit
/etc/dt/config/Xinitrc/XFce and change the path line from /usr/local to
/usr/local/bin.  Also, make sure you remove ~/.xinitrc.

--
Craig A. Betts
IT Security Design Engineer
Arcata Associates, Inc. - Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA
Voice: (661) 276-2085     Pager: (661) 276-3038 #4010

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, James Lee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I decided to make the jump from 3.8 to 4.0.3 on Sparc Solaris 2.7.
> Downloaded the various packages and built them. Has the following
> installed locally (under my home directory): pkg-config 0.50, glib
> 2.3.1, gtk+-2.2.4, pango-1.3.2. Everything is under my home directory.
>
> When I started up xfce4, I only see a blank screen and a bar on top
> (xftaskbar4), mouse cursor changes to arrow, and nothing happens and
> nothing responds. I was able to add an xterm to .xinitrc to it and it
> appears, with the title "xterm" across the bar at the top. Inside the
> xterm, I tried, xterm, netscape, etc, and nothing appears. X didn't
> complain. I tried xfce4-panel, but nothing comes up, except the
> messages about not using session-manager, which I gather is normal,
> since I don't have it. ps showed the different processes running (no
> xfce4-panel, though). Whatever X apps I start goes into a blackhole.
>
> Unfortunately, my xfce 3.8 was hosed (my libs were messed up), so I
> ran fvwm2 instead. Then I started xfce4-panel manually inside an
> xterm, and it came up (although complaining about the window manager
> not comforming to standards in freedesktop.org, etc.) I was even able
> to play with the panel. I tried xfdesktop and lo and behold, a window
> containing the desktop with the xfce mouse backdrop actually pop-up. I
> can even iconize this "desktop". But of course, all windows are still
> controlled by fvwm2.
>
> Finally, I tried using fvwm2 and then switch to xfwm4 and manually
> started up xfce4-panel, xftaskbar4, xfce4-iconbox, etc. The only thing
> I didn't run is xfdesktop. xfce4 works nicely (mostly) through this
> means.
>
> I suspect the problem to be xfdesktop going missing when run on its
> own, that is why all the xterm, netscape, etc, went missing (but no
> complaints) as well. I tried to rebuild xfdesktop a couple of times,
> but to no avail.
>
> What is the problem with my setup?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> p/s: I'm running xfce4 from fvwm2 for a few weeks already, and it
> seems pretty stable this way. xfdesktop4 is not running.
>
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