Prob starting Xfce4 [SOLVED]

chrisTGc · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Wales UK

Spent this afternoon trying to get XFCE4 starting but had to do my own fix.

Now,I have very carefully read the Gentoo Wiki re this and tried info from that.No luck.Checked the forums over and tried something anew from there but still same.Went over all again being real carefull and still same prob.TWM always starts.Entering the address of the XFCE4 start or session script in xterm in TWM and i get both XFCE4 and TWM running,not suprising.

Did my own fix which for the info of other Gentoo noobs is as follows;

Login as root and;
# nano -w and type one line;
/usr/bin/startxfce4 crtl+o and save the file as /etc/X11/Sessions/startup-fix
#chmod 755 /etc/X11/Sessions/startup-fix
# nano -w /etc/rc.conf and change XSESSION to "startup-fix" make sure xdm is selected as display manager
# /etc/init.d/xdm restart

Nothing else has worked anyone know why?.

Best Wishes and thanks for the Distro,Chris.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

Hi there !

In order to make my xfce4 running at startup, I emerged gdm (you can use any manager.. but xdm is not good-looking, and since you want to use xfce4, kdm would install useless packages)...

After you only have to modify "/etc/rc.conf" to start gdm.

"/etc/init.d/xdm start" will start gdm and once into it, you'll be able to choose xfce4 as default for all your users.

s0ulslack · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:20 am Post subject:

just add "exec startxfce4" to ~/.xinitrc, should start Xfce fine with startx (minus quotes, of course)

chrisTGc · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Wales UK

Thanks for the posts.

Tried the GDM sugestion above and that works well,nice.Trashed my fix files (and thought and now,heh heh, GDM wont work but it did).No probs.

But coudnt shut down XFCE4 as user but only suspend or su to root to poweroff which is how i leave this machine when not in use.Got a fix for that;
#chmod 4755 /sbin/poweroff
#chmod 4755 /sbin/halt
Then right click the xfce4 panel and add a new link.Ive got it naned shutdown,comand is /sbin/poweroff,default icon.Be carefull in use there is no dialogue the machine just shuts down.Given the history above of my fixes what is the proper way to do this.As user chris i am in group wheel.

Chris 'Gentoo nOOb #1'

jeanfrancis · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject:

Hi !

For your shutdown and restart, there is a way using SUDO. The trick is explained in the Gentoo Wiki (I think, just search "xfce Gentoo" in Google

It works, but not for me

I can't find out why, but when I restart with this way, my Grub is showing a blue screen... but it may work for you

alien · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 85

Hi!

All as root:

s0ulslack · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:58 am Post subject:

People, Documention for projects is painfully wrote/maintained for a reason. Read it! You can learn howto enable shutdown and all that good stuff as a regular user by reading through the Xfce docs/faqs on the site (xfce.org)

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:31 am Post subject:

...And the Xfce/Installation - Gentoo Linux Wiki was wrote for Gentoo users that would want to install and use Xfce in Gentoo

That's the way we explained here in the thread

chrisTGc · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Wales UK

Hiya,

I post on the forums becouse ive not been able to fix probs having read the Wiki and at least some of the XFCE4 site and all faq's there.Forums are final resort.

Dont ask me why the instructions on the wiki dont work on this machine i just dont know.They do not here !!.

But probs are solved and thanks for all relevant help.The GDM bit does it all including shutdown although i had to find that out in use,ie newlogin and from GDM System>Shutdown.Like my startup fix the shutdown fix is in the bin,Useing GDM just as emerged with rc.conf edited for GDM and startxfce4.

Chris.

Dominique_71 · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

I was having the same problem to shutdown my box from xfce without password until I read this thread, and that even at I was reading the doc on the xfce website and the gentoo sudo doc.

If folk ask for help, it is obvious at they are in need of help. It is so much documentation on linux as the hardest thinks is not to read the doc but to find it. Sometime we will, other time we just fails to find it. We are human, not a god-machine.
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chrisTGc · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Wales UK

Thanks Dominique,thats right.

Ime glad youre box fixed to but i hope by emerging GDM.My startup and shutdown fix's are not good practice and eg sessions in XFCE do not get saved.These where ok temporary only.

GDM easy for both start and shutdown in XFCE and sessions get saved ok.See Jeanfrancis post 21 April for details.From desktop newlogin takes you back to GDM login and System from there select shutdown.

best wishes chris.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject:

You can use another display manager than GDM as well, but XDM is ugly and KDM installs too much KDE packages if you don't plan to use it