where's the task bar?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Phil wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I've just installed xfce on Mandrake 10.0 thru urpmi (xfce 4.0.3-2mdk); 
> I like it very much, it seems to suit my needs perfectly. I only have 
> one problem: I don't see (and cannot find anywhere) the taskbar.
> I can customise it in the Settings, I can see it's supposed to stay on 
> top of the secreen by default - but I don't see it...
> Must there be something missing in my installation, or is there a way to 
> make the taskbar appear?
> 
> Thanks to all,

I believe that Mandrake doesn't run the taskbar by default (strangely 
enough).

You have to copy the xinitrc from the default location to ~/.xfce4/, 
make it executable and edit it so it runs xftaskbar4. It is in the file, 
but it's commented out.

The default file might be in /etc/xfce4/xinitrc, but that varies a bit 
across distributions.

	Jasper