xfce4.2 for root

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
>>Strange. Could you try to run without session manager;
>>just make an ~/.xinitr> with the following lines and use
>>startx instead of startxfce4> 
>> xfce-mcs-manager
>> xfcwm4 --daemon
>> xfdesktop &
>> xftaskbar4 &
>>
>> exec xfce4-panel
> 
> 
> The result is completely empty panel and taskbar with no
> xfdesktop:
> 
>>xfdesktop: Could not locate a menu definition file
>>Segmentation fault
> 

Right, this definitely means xfce is missing configuration files 
(Nothing should crash of course).

Do you have anything below ${prefix}/etc/xdg/?

[...]
> 
> I'll try to "manually" compile xfce from sources.
> 

Thanks.