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clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

xfce problem [SOLVED]

hi to all,

after i've installed xfce, I choose xfce session in login screen, as user, and then all that I have is an empty screen with nothing else no menus no icons nothing at all only mouse cursor 

and when i login as root everything is revealed, menus icons etc

any tip on this

Last edited by clickit (2007-08-05 06:41:58)

flebber

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Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 32

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

Did you add your user to the group 'video'.

# gpasswd -a USERNAME video

clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

Did you add your user to the group 'video'.

# gpasswd -a USERNAME video

yes I have done that

flebber

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Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 32

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

It looks to me that your user doesn't have a 'right' that root does, hence the root has access to menus and icons and user doesn't.  to find out what groups your user is in use # groups

Other option add this too your users .xinitrc file .

xfce-mcs-manager
xfwm4 --daemon
xfdesktop &
exec xfce4-panel

clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

here are the groups that I belong to : root disk lp wheel slocate dbus hal network video audio optical floppy storage users
and there is no .xinitrc file in my $HOME dir

the only existed xinitrc files are located in /etc/X11/xinit and /etc/xdg/xfce4 directories

[EDIT]
I have to admit that I followed this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce4 to install xfce4

Last edited by clickit (2007-08-04 13:41:51)

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

iirc, deleting ~/.config/xfce4/ may help.

clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

iirc, deleting ~/.config/xfce4/ may help.

nope
nothing changed

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

you may want to read that thread :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29273

clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

Re: xfce problem [SOLVED]

you may want to read that thread :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29273

yes
#10 in given link solved my problem
million thanks