Subject: Re: XFCE on NetBSD (newbie)
To: Fernando y Yohara <fvillalo@pa.inter.net>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/01/2005 01:10:54
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fernando y Yohara wrote:

> I installed NetBSD 2.0 in a old PC I had laying around (PIII @ 1GHZ,
> 128MB & 10GB HD, ATI AGP chipset), downloaded the pkgsrc.tar.gz and un
> packed it.  I tried installing the xfce4 package from source by doing
> the make install procedure.  No luck.  A lot of compilation lines went
> thru the screen but at the end I could not run startxfce as there was none.
>
> Is there a problem with the NetBSD package?

First check if it is installed:

pkg_info | grep xfce

In particular look for "xfce4-wm".

startxfce4 is installed by the xfce4-utils package. Do you have
xfce4-utils installed?

Also, be sure to spell startxfce4 with the "4" on the end.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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