xfce4.2 for root

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 07:39:15PM +0500, Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
> Hello Jasper,
> 
> Right now I'm writing this working in xfce as a regular user - and
> everything is fine. Yes, I had 4.0.6 in /opt/xfce4 but renamed it to
> /opt/xfce4-old before installing 4.2b1 with the graphical installer.
> I've installed 4.2b1 in the /opt/xfce4.
> I tried to make clean install removing all xfce stuff from /opt and
> /root in the similar archlinux box on my notebook - the same result is
> there.
> 

Strange. Could you try to run without session manager; just make an ~/.xinitrc
with the following lines and use startx instead of startxfce4:

 xfce-mcs-manager
 xfcwm4 --daemon
 xfdesktop &
 xftaskbar4 &

 exec xfce4-panel