Error starting xfce

[Jens Luedicke]

Hi...

as a former LFS user, I found the BLFS book a good resource and
help to set up most programs:

http://lfs.netservice-neuss.de/blfs/view/stable/

Jens

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:00:14 -0500, Christopher
<christopher.carroll at birch.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 

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