Cannot start xfce from vnc startup script

[Andrew Conkling]

On 6/4/06, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I am unable to open xfce from a script - possibly because of the
> non-standard way it's set up.

Are you getting any error that you could post?

> The startup script is for tightVNC and is in ~/.vnc/xstartup.
>
> In Slackware 10.2 a link points to an rc file for a window manager.
> The link is in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and normally points to something
> like xinitrc.kde or xinitrc.fluxbox in the same directory.
>
> However for xfce, the xinitrc link points yet another link,
> xinitrc.xfce -> ../xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
>
> I've tried various ways to call with a ~/.xinitrc file including copying
> over the final ../xdg/xfce3/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc.xfce and soft linking
> to /etc/X11/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -> ~/.xinitrc and finally soft linking to
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce -> ~/.xinitrc.  Nothing has worked.

I see no reason why linking wouldn't work, but did you try copying the
file to ~/.xinitrc (i.e. without the .xfce suffix)?

HTH,
Andrew