General Support - can't get xfce to work HK-47 - 05.08.2006, 12:52 Uhr Titel: can't get xfce to work
just out of curiosity, i wanted to try out xfce. i installed it using apt (apt-get install xfce4), and the install went along fine. but when i try to login, all i get is a screen with the nothing but the kanotix wallpaper in the background and a mouse pointer. the only way i could get out of this screen is by restarting X. then i uninstalled xfce and reinstalled it following the instructions on this page. same result. then i uninstalled it again and tried the packages on this page, but the installation failed as apt couldn't resolve some dependencies. what am i doing wrong?
my system is a recently dist-upgraded Kanotix 2006-RC4 (with the 2.6.17.7-slh-up-1 kernel), but i got the same results even on a fresh install of Easter. my pc is a sempron64 2600+, with a 256MB geforce FX5500 video card. any ideas? thanks in advance.
mzilikazi - 05.08.2006, 14:03 Uhr Titel:
Well XFCE4 installs and works fine here. Do you have an entry for xfce4 in /usr/share/xsessions/ ? Try to start xfce4 like this:
Code:
CTRL+ALT+F1
# /etc/init.d/kdm stop
# su <username>
$ startxfce4
mjg - 05.08.2006, 15:02 Uhr Titel:
There are a number of files associated with XFCE. Try a search in Synaptic and install the ones you think are relevant.
Richard - 05.08.2006, 15:21 Uhr Titel:
In the latest round of upheaval in the repository, xfce was considerably modified and it quit working for me, on an up-to-date Kanotix/Sid. Then I broke the whole thing by making too many changes at once.
Reinstalled 2006-rc4, updated with the "du-fixes-h2.sh", switched back to IceWM and all is well again. Xfce may still be broken, but I would try purging and installing again to try to get all the latest changes. If it doesn't work as expected then something is probably broken and awaiting fixes.
stryder - 05.08.2006, 16:41 Uhr Titel:
Like mzilikazi I have xfce4 installed and running fine. There were some problems recently as mentioned and I switched to the http://xfce.corsac.net sources. Working fine and I'm fully dist-upgraded. Perhaps you should try mzilikazi's suggestion.
Richard - 05.08.2006, 18:10 Uhr Titel:
Just tried to install Xfce from the Debian repository, but it wanted to remove all the new kdelibs stuff; probably leaving kde non-functional, maybe even IceWM. Sooo, added source: http:/xfce.corsac.net sid main [ unstable main]
Commented out all other repos, updated, and tried to install xfce4, this time it said there were "unreconcilable dependencies" and could not install it.
[tried again with unstable and testing repos active, as well, but it still wants to remove kdelib-dev and a buncho of others.]
Guess I'll have to wait a while longer. Thanks for the tip.
Good to know.
stryder - 06.08.2006, 02:36 Uhr Titel:
The way I understand corsac, it's like experimental. Latest binaries go there. So I use it together with debian unstable. The packages are at "deb http://xfce.corsac.net unstable main", as mentioned on pkg-xfce.alioth.debian.org. You can also get the public key from that page too. I don't use the osworks repository.
I just dist-upgraded this morning with no problems.
HK-47 - 06.08.2006, 08:11 Uhr Titel:
i also tried using the corsac repositories together with the deault debian unstable repositories, and i still get the same results. maybe i should just wait for xfce 4.4 to come out?
