On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 05:34:42PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> if you have gdm and xfce4 installed, gdm offers xfce out of the box.
If that works out of the box...
> The package xfce4-session provides the magic file that make it work in
> /usr/local/share/xsessions/xfce.desktop
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/meta/xfce/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.30
> diff -u -r1.30 Makefile
> --- Makefile 16 Apr 2023 18:29:39 -0000 1.30
> +++ Makefile 7 May 2023 15:31:25 -0000
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
> PKGNAME-main = xfce-${V}
> PKGNAME-extras = xfce-extras-${V}
> REVISION-extras = 3
> -REVISION-main = 3
> +REVISION-main = 4
>
> MAINTAINER = Landry Breuil <[email protected]>
>
> Index: pkg/README-main
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/meta/xfce/pkg/README-main,v
> retrieving revision 1.20
> diff -u -r1.20 README-main
> --- pkg/README-main 24 Dec 2022 20:49:58 -0000 1.20
> +++ pkg/README-main 7 May 2023 15:31:20 -0000
> @@ -12,9 +12,6 @@
> Simply add '${LOCALBASE}/bin/startxfce4' to your .xinitrc .xsession
> script if you use startx(1) or xenodm(1), respectively.
>
> -If you use gdm, have a look at https://wiki.xfce.org/faq#starting_xfce
> -which provides an xfce4.desktop for it.
... you could also say something like
If you want to use gdm, install it and select xfce in the menu, bla bla.
Would such a specific hint be more helpful than leaving users figure out
gdm/xfce interaction on their own?
> -
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