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ruhar

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Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 37

Xfce4 does not start fully

I just installed the xfce4 and xfce4-goodies packages along with all of the dependencies.  When I launch xfce4 only the Xfce background appears.  There is no panel and no right click menus.  I've tried to launch xfce4 in all of the ways shown on the Arch xfce4 wiki.  Any ideas?

qlus

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From: Tychy, Poland

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 74

Re: Xfce4 does not start fully

Try this in .xinitrc
exec /opt/xfce4/bin/xfce4-session

ruhar

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Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 37

Re: Xfce4 does not start fully

Unfortunately starting xfce4-session doesn't work either.  I've tried starting xfce service by service or startxfce4 or xfce4-session and nothing seems to work.  No errrors are ocurring in Xorg.0.log.

rhfrommn

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From: Minnesota

Registered: 2005-01-13

Posts: 99

Re: Xfce4 does not start fully

I have two thoughts, but they are both wild guesses, so be careful if you decide to do either.

First, I wonder if some package or dependency is missing.  XFCE starts and gives no error, but you're missing the package that contains the panel or whatever.

Second, could your config file in your homedir be incorrect?  I've solved similar config issues with other software in the past by just renaming the config file to something else and letting the machine generate a new one when it can't find the file on the next startup.  Maybe XFCE would do the same?

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: Xfce4 does not start fully

If u exit your x-session with only the xfce-desktop with ctrl+alt+backspace and look at the screen, what errors do u get?

Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Xfce4 does not start fully

I got around this issue with the following in ~/.xinitrc:

exec /opt/xfce4/bin/startxfce4
sleep 2
exec /opt/xfce4/bin/xfce4-panel

I'm using xfce-svn repo.

Echo