On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Gentoo, > > The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in "The > Xfce Configuration Guide", I did > > # emerge -avt xfce4-meta > > followed by > > $ echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc > > followed by > > $ startx. > > The X-server complained about not finding startxfce4. A quick find > command, "find / -name startxfce4" (and I do mean quick - it took only > half a second :-) demonstrated a complete absence of a file with that > name. > > Help, please! What do I need to do to get xfce running? > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > > Humm....that worked for me:
firefly ~ # which startxfce4 /usr/bin/startxfce4 firefly ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/startxfce4 [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/startxfce4 in *... ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 (/usr/bin/startxfce4) firefly ~ # m...@firefly ~ $ cat .xinitrc exec startxfce4 m...@firefly ~ $ Do and emerge -pvDuN @world/revdep-rebuild -ip and make sure you are really clean. It should work but the info above should allow oyu to get it running. I didn't need to do anything special here. Hope this helps, Mark
