comment on handbook chapter 5.7.4.2

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 17 21:18:53 UTC 2004


On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Pieter Koppelaar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all i'd like to apologise if this message to you is
> unappropriate.
> I'm new to freebsd (in fact i'm new to any unix) and i'm trying out your
> latest current distribution (5.2.1).
> I came across a small mismatch between my installation and chapter
> "5.7.4.2 Installing XFce" of the handbook.
> 
> I was installing the XFCE Desktop environment as described in chapter
> 5.7.4.2 but noticed a mismatch in the command used to tell the X server to
> launch XFce on startup.
> The line used in the handbook is a line which
> adds "/usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce" to ~/.xinitrc.
> I noticed the command to start xfce is not "startxfce" but "startxfce4".
> 
> Maybe this should be changed in the handbook?
>
[...]

I just fixed it.  This error comes from the XFce3 time.  Thanks.

Marc



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