Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> 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 > >
Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed? Try installing it.
