Xfce 4.6 Beta 2 on FreeBSD

[David Mohr]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
>> Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>> >
>> > - Editor, Command Line and so on in the panels are showing no icon (a
>> >   null icon)
>> > - within "Applications" in the context menu which gets openend when right
>> >   clicking on the desktop, the Subgroups (like Settings, Graphics,
>> >   Multimedia...) are shown with a read X-Icon instead of a real. Within
>> >  the Settings-Group, many Setting Applications are shown with no icon (a
>> >   null icon)
>>
>> Sounds like you're missing one or more of the following:
>>
>> * The hicolor-icon-theme needs to be installed.
>> * The XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable needs to include
>> $xfce_prefix/share (as well as the location of hicolor).
>
> hicolor-icon-theme is installed below $xfce_prefix/share as well. I'm
> using /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc in my .xinitrc to start xfce via
> my login manager (slim). I see that XDG_DATA_DIRS gets set in startxfce4
> but not in xinitrc - so what is the "correct" way of starting xfce from a
> graphical login manager?

I think it's still startxfce4. If I recall correctly, that script
checks and only starts the X server if it isn't running yet.

~David