still trying to lock xfce...

Lionel Laratte myth47 at comcast.net
Fri Mar 12 04:55:53 CET 2004


This may be rather obvious, but have you tried commenting out the panel
statement in /etc/gdm/Sessions/xfce4 ?  I'm fairly new at this but that
is where I'd start.

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 09:57, Alvise wrote:
> Excuse me if I still bother you with this, but I'd like to understand 
> where I am wrong (and possibly correct me, because if I succeed in using 
> xfce for this work this could have greater impact on linux spreading at 
> my workplace)
> 
> I don't know if Jesper has found the problem I exposed and it is in his 
> plans to fix it (I don't even know if this, for you, is a problem :-) )
> 
> In the meantime i tried the "don't start the panel" way, and i put 
> mozilla in ~/Desktop/Autostart in a script that will always relaunch it 
> if someone closes its window.
> So I came again (I already tried this some days ago) to the "don't start 
> the panel" point. Plain and simple: comment out the lines that start the 
> panel in /etc/xfce4/xinitrc.
> 
> I tried to comment out the "panel='which xfce4-panel'", the whole "case" 
> statement and both, but every time I start xfce4 it seems to load the 
> xfdesktop, the xftaskbar4, load even mozilla but then I get a message 
> from the X server stating that the session has lasted less than 10 
> seconds and since I haven't logged out there may be configuration or 
> disk space (5Gb free, may I doubt?) problems. Then it brings me back to gdm.
> 
> Anyone could tell me what I missed?
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> Alvise
> 
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