xfce question

R!tman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:23 am Post subject: xfce question

Hi all,

I use xfce and like it very much. Since the last update of xfce, where xfcalendar was emerged too, I have this annoying problem.

Everytime I start xfce, xfcalendar is started automatically in the beginning. How can I keep it from being started everytime? I like xfcalendar, but I do not want it on the screen everytime I start.

Thanks in advance!

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

You can copy /etc/xfce4/xinitrc to ~/.xfce4/xinitrc and remove/comment out the line that runs "xfcalendar&"

R!tman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:00 am Post subject:

That did not solve it, but editing the original file did.

What do I have to change so that xfce uses the ~/.xfce4/xinitrc file?

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

How do you login to xfce? (i.e. gdm, startx, etc) The startxfce4 script, which the xfce session scripts should be running, should check if you have ~/.xfce4/xinitrc and run that if it exists. The only thing I can think of is that you're somehow not calling this script when you start it?

R!tman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:25 am Post subject:

I use gdm to login to xfce.

What is really strange, that when I start xfce directly with "/usr/bin/startxfce4", the error occurs too.

By the way, these line you wrote in [code] also show up in my startxfce4 script.

Then the script is definetely executed, but like I said, the error is still there.

zerwas · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 24

Simply remove (or edit) $HOME/.xfce4/xfcalendar/xfcalendarrc before starting XFCE4.

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R!tman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject:

zerwas · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 24

OK, but what is wrong in commenting out the line

Malakai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 299

R!tman · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

In principle I like xfcalendar. I just do not want it to be started everytime. Only when I want to.

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

you cannot just edit out a line in the local config ~/.configwhatever. these files just overide the settings in the main config file, so commenting out xfcecalender doesn't stop it from loading because the original tells it too load. Instead comment out everything in the original, then copy it to local, and then UNcomment the things you do want to load. That way other users don't have the same problem your having.

R!tman · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:42 am Post subject:

I had tried this already, but it did not work. Somehow my ~/.xfce4/xinitrc is not used when starting xfce. I do not know why. I can get rid of the problem by commenting out xfcalendar in the original file (/etc/xfce4/xinitrc), but I would like to keep the original setting for the other users and only edit my own profile.
How do I get this to work?

SDGR406 · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

For what it's worth I am experiencing a very similar problem and also would like to know the answer.

I would like to have one user account where the panel is loaded when XFCE starts and one user account where it does not.

I can remove the entire panel section from the xinitrc file in my home dir but that file does not seem to execute...it just runs /etc/xfce4/xinitrc which has the panel section in it and I get a panel anyway - very annoying.

If I remove the panel section from the 'global' xinitrc file my user account does not have a panel (which is good), but the other user account, which I want to have a panel, does not - also very annoying.

Thought I would chime in since my problem is very similar to yours and I understand that 'remove it from the global xinitrc then' is not a sufficient solution.

Looking forward to a fix/workaround for this.

olias2 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 234 Location: CANADA

Me too.

Persistant little calendar isn't it.
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R!tman · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject:

Yeah, silly it is started automatically. But it is xfcalendar's fault. The ~/.xfce4/xinitrc is not considered during start, that is the problem.

I changed the original /etc/xfce4/xinitrc and commented xfcalender out.

JuMPeRfLy · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 30 Location: Bangor, Wales

I had the same problem, it was not using the config from my homedir, the reason for this is it was not executable. I made it executable and all was well.

olias2 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 234 Location: CANADA

~/.xfce4/xfcalendar/xfcalendarrc

SDGR406 · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:33 am Post subject:

R!tman · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:30 am Post subject:

Thank you olias2, it worked

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