From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 2 21:18:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB931065670 for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 21:18:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3158FC16 for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 21:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o42LI1Nk041589; Sun, 2 May 2010 15:18:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o42LI1QY041586; Sun, 2 May 2010 15:18:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 15:18:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Tijl Coosemans In-Reply-To: <201005022005.34090.tijl@coosemans.org> Message-ID: References: <201005022005.34090.tijl@coosemans.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 02 May 2010 15:18:01 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfce4 and xorg-7.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 21:18:04 -0000 On Sun, 2 May 2010, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >> I pkg_deleted all three, rebuilt libICE (because it's a requirement for >> xfce4-settings) and then the other two... and it still has the problem. > > Shouldn't that be xfce4-session instead of xfce4-settings? xfce4-settings first, but I just completed a 'portupgrade -Rf xfce4-settings'. Like the other attempts, it did no harm but didn't solve the problem of xfce sometimes immediately quitting on startup. This post suggests deinstalling x11-wm/xfce4-session altogether: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?ef8c8a881003211016r57b184bagb65e5a2dd1038952 Without xfce4-session, xfce starts and runs every time. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA