Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 06:31 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm trying to run xfce4 >> >> genlop xfce4 reports only: >> >> * xfce-base/xfce4 >> >> But I did emerge xfce4-session with no errors .. not sure why it >> doesn't show up. > > because genlop xfce4 searches only for the package named xfce4, not > xfce4-session or any name just containing xfce4. > > You might try genlop -l |grep xfce4 > > >> >> On startup, I see a lightblue backgroud with the icon mouse blinking >> for a few seconds .. maybe 15-20 and then the screen goes a sort of >> tweed (grey and white speckles) and cursor becomes an X. >> >> Any apps started appear with the title bar just out of site above the >> top of screen so they cannot be moved/resized etc. They don't appear >> in the taskbar pager. > > As a general X tip, hold down the Alt key and click-drag anywhere in the > window - that way you do not need to be able to reach the title bar.
Holding down alt and click/dragging has no effect whatever here, other than to highlight any text I drag over. > Have you emerge xfce4-panel and does it appear? Yes, panel appears and I can get to config icon and other stuff. I expected to see any apps running appear in the pager but do not. I see a 4 pane pager.. all blank. >> I have no .xfce4 in ~/ .. .. Should it have been copied there? > > I have one, I am not sure where it came from. I see now its ~/.config/xfce4 xfce4-session I haven't used xfce4 for a couple yrs but in older versions one had an .xfce/ with lots of config files under it. I see everything is now in xml. The fact that the default blue screen with mouse icon appears at first then stops and turns to the ugly tween screen with X shaped mouse cursor, would seem to mean something important isn't loading. I'm discovering too, that if I start an xterm and type xffm to bringup the filemanager, I get an error about not being able to load shared libraries `libxfce4mcs-client.so.1'. A find search shows that file is not present on the system: root # find /usr/lib -iname 'libxfce4mcs-client*' /usr/lib/libxfce4mcs-client.la /usr/lib/libxfce4mcs-client.so /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxfce4mcs-client-1.0.pc /usr/lib/libxfce4mcs-client.so.2 /usr/lib/libxfce4mcs-client.so.2.0.3 /usr/lib/libxfce4mcs-client.a So maybe there something still not installed. Do you have that file in /usr/lib? -- [email protected] mailing list
