xfce4.2 for root

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Tue Oct 12 16:23:39 CEST 2004


On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:58:33PM +0500, Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
> Guys, it's not a joke :)
> Really, sometimes I need to run xfce from root, and CVS version worked 
> fine. Is it connected somehow with XDG structure? Or what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've tryied to run xfce4.2beta1 for root user (archlinux 0.7) - it 
> >didn't start:
> >
> >xfce4-session: Unable to load failsafe session, exiting
> >xfdesktop: Could not locate a menu definition file
> >
> >Is it bug or feature?
> >

I'm sorry, but if that is the only message you get, I have no idea what is
going wrong.

Both error messages do seem to indicate that it cannot find certain files. Are
you sure your installation is correct and there are no old installations
interfering?

	Jasper



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