Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Possibly you installed something other than xfce4-meta? >> >> firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils >> [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 >> firefly ~ # > > I'm just seconding fireflys' report. I suspect xfce4 expects you to > be starting X from a system script under /etc/X11 somewhere instead of > startx. So may consider that method a secondary thing and therefor > not install xfce-base/xfce-utils by default. (just a guess) > > I use the startx method too and don't recall doing anything special to > get it to work. > > But maybe just installing or reinstalling xfce-base/xfce-utils will > take care of the problem. > > Is xfce-base/xfce-utils already installed? > > >
Again, do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it and running startxfce4.
