[ale] xfce 4 and gentoo

[James Sumners]

Then I say it is a problem with your build of XFCE. My only suggestion
would be to start X with nothing but an xterm and start XFCE from
there. You will be able to run a strace and such on it then.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I did, even went as far as creating a new user and logging in from that.
>  Still no go, same blank screen.
>
> On 8/18/2010 10:56 AM, James Sumners wrote:
>> Did you remove (rename) your ~/.conf and ~/.config directories? `find
>> ~ -name *xfce*` on my Debian VM indicates that this is where XFCE
>> stores its configuration.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Calvin Harrigan
>> <charriglists at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
>>> Does anyone on the list use gentoo and xfce4?
>>> Over the weekend I switched from kde to xfce, everything went smoothly.
>>>   There were some conflicts afterwards with libpng when I installed
>>> eagle, but they all seemed to resolve properly following the on screen
>>> instructions.  All this was done while inside xfce. Everything worked
>>> and I shutdown normally.  The next day I log in via slim and nothing!
>>> Just a black screen, no mouse, no nothing.  I've since uninstalled and
>>> re-installed xfce hoping that it was a library conflict or something, no
>>> dice.  I haven't been able to find anything on gentoo's forums, waiting
>>> for approval on the xfce forum, general googling didn't produce anything
>>> useful.  Generally with a problem like this you can simply look through
>>> the logs to find something that might be wrong.  I can't find any log
>>> files for xfce.  The problem seems to be around xfcedesktop, if I
>>> replace the startxfce4 with say xfce4-panel in .xinitrc the panel does
>>> indeed display, but still no mouse and no ability to do anything.  The
>>> problem is not with x as startkde still brings up kde just fine, so I've
>>> been using it temporarily.  I really like the simple elegance of xfce,
>>> so I'm looking for any help to get it working again.  Thanks.
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