XDM and Xfce4 on NetBSD.

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Wed Nov 17 20:37:17 CET 2004


Geoffroy wrote:
> Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
> 
>> 'allo,
>>
>>      I have built and installed Xfce4 on my NetBSD system.  What I
>> am not sure of is how to go about starting it up.
>>
>>      The first problem I have is that there is no startxfce created.  Am
>> I looking in the wrong place ? Or is this something created by something
>> other then the make process ?
>>
>>       Second, how do I start Xfce ?  Do I put startxfce in my
>> ~/.xsession ?  Are there any options that I need to add to it ?  Do I
>> need to put it in the background ? Or are there some files that can be
>> modified so that XDM will start Xfce4 when I login ?
>>

startxfce4 is fine.

>>
> You must execut the "xfce4_setup" command in a shell to be able to boot 
> XFCE 4. You must type this command with all the users who will be able 
> to launch XFCE 4 (ROOT user included !)

That's a debian invention, it's not part of Xfce.

	Jasper



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