where's the task bar?

[Shadow Rage]

I dunno why dists like mandrake do things like these. is it bias? is
it some dev who thinks the task bar ruins the environment for xfce?


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:39:36 -0400, Dan Gordon <dgordon8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> On October 17, 2004 06:24 am, Phil wrote:
> > Hola Jasper,
> >
> > Jasper Huijsmans a écrit :
> > > Phil wrote:
> > >> I only have one problem: I don't see (and cannot find anywhere)
> > >> the taskbar.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >> Must there be something missing in my installation, or is there a
> > >> way to make the taskbar appear?
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Thank you very much, Jasper, it solved the problem.
> > For info, Mdk puts the xinitrc file in /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc
> 
> And in Mandrake 10.1 community at least i found I did not have to do
> anything exept make changes to the file and it worked.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan Gordon
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