New to Arch - Xfce4 problems

straydog · 2006-03-11 20:45:16

So far it looks promising. I've loaded a few times now trying different things, but I can't get Xfce4 to run. In my latest incarnation, I loaded from CD and did an FTP install. I installed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. I copied /opt/xfce4/...xinitrc to ~/xfce4. Edited ~/.xinitrc. When I ran startx or startxfce4, I got back "couldn't find command" or something like that. I searched the forums a bit and installed xorg-iinit then rebooted. Now when I run startx or starxfcee4, I get a fatal error -

Failed to load module "s3virge" (module does not exist)
Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist)
Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist)
Failed to load module "vga" (module does not exist)
Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist)
Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist)

Fatal server error:
No screens found
XIO: fatal io error 104...

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bill

wrj · 2006-03-11 21:10:33

Try downloading the xorg-input-drivers and xorg-video-drivers packages.

kensai · 2006-03-11 21:13:20

#pacman -S xorg xorg-server xorg-clients
Should be enough to get you all the X modules you need.

straydog · 2006-03-11 21:48:11

Woohoo! Thanks, guys. I ended up installing all suggested. xorg xorg-server xorg-clients fixed some. xorg-input-drivers and xorg-video-drivers fixed the rest (I suspect this one would have taken care of all). Anyway, Xfce4 is up. Why no terminal in Xfce? Somthing else I need to install? There must be more packages. I'll have to investigate further.

Thanks, again,
Bill

P.S. Now I'm off to see if I need to edit my /etc/hosts

ozar · 2006-03-11 21:51:40

I recommend installing "terminal" for xfce4:

pacman -S terminal

It was designed for xfce4 and works quite well.

tomk · 2006-03-11 21:59:00

Alternatively, you could take advantage of xorg7's modularity, and just install the modules listed in the error message:

pacman -S xf86-video-s3virge xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-vga xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard

straydog · 2006-03-11 22:16:21

I'm getting quite an education. Thanks! Terminal works from the Xfce menu, just not from the xfce panel. I'll try to install "terminal" as suggested to see if that's what the xfce panel entry is looking for.

Bill

ozar · 2006-03-11 22:39:08

You can change the terminal start command in the panel if needed by right-clicking it. Terminal starts with the logical command, "terminal". Xfce4 also provides a built-in menu editor that allows you to change the various application start commands in the menu.

straydog · 2006-03-11 22:54:18

ozar wrote:

You can change the terminal start command in the panel if needed by right-clicking it. Terminal starts with the logical command, "terminal". Xfce4 also provides a built-in menu editor that allows you to change the various application start commands in the menu.

Yeah, thanks. I've been working on that. I used terminal instead of the default xfterm4(?) and found I had ro specify the whole path for the command.

Where is a good list of packages available? I've been going through Aur. I guess I got lucky and loaded mozilla-firefox by guessing at the package name. It wasn't listed on Aur that way.

Thanks, again,
Bill

ozar · 2006-03-11 22:59:41

straydog wrote:

Where is a good list of packages available?

Look here for packages:

http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php

elasticdog · 2006-03-11 23:36:04

Also you can search using pacman if you don't know the official package name:

$ pacman -Ss firefox

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