XDM and Xfce4 on NetBSD.

Mehul N. Sanghvi mnsanghvi at comcast.net
Wed Nov 17 22:38:42 CET 2004


Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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.


OK.  But where do I find this script ?  I can not find it anywhere
on my NetBSD system.  I built from sources in /usr/pkgsrc and can
not find the file in the sources.

> 
>>>
>> 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.
> 

Ahh good thing you mentioned that, because I was starting to wonder why
I couldn't find that file either.



cheers,

       mehul



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