Error starting xfce

[Christopher]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 01:20, Dark Shadow wrote:
> I am trying to get xfce going and have got it all compiled but when I
> try to startx I get it to run for a few seconds with a picture of a
> mouse and the name xfce under it then X just quits back to the
> console.
> 
> Please if you know what I need to do (don't assume I have anything
> installed since this is a "Linux From Scratch" that was only started 3
> days ago) on that note I do have fontconfig installed but if it
> requires more configuration then "configure&&make&&make install" I
> have not done it.
> 
That's all you need to do to install fontconfig - but next time you may
want to specify --sysconfdir=/etc to the configure script to be FHS
compliant, and since your running LFS you may want to use --prefix=/usr
instead of the default /usr/local.

<snip>

> No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
> library is not correctly configured. You may need to
> edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
> about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
> page and on http://fontconfig.org

You didn't say whether you tried editing your fontconfig configuration
like the message suggests.  If you haven't, you should do this.  After
installing fontconfig and X, I think I usually need to add my X font
paths to /etc/fonts/local.conf (yours may be in
/usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf - not sure).

This isn't really an xfce issue - so you might have better luck asking
on the blfs-support mailing list.

Good luck.