Corrections to handbook/x11-wm.html
Brandon J. Wandersee
brandon.wandersee at gmail.com
Wed May 3 14:28:13 UTC 2017
Paul Hoffman writes:
> Greetings. The description in "5.7.3. Xfce" is incomplete, at least for
> installing with "pkg". You also need "pkg install xinit" and "pkg
> install Xorg", at least for FreeBSD 11.
The instructions for installing Xfce follow the instructions for
installing and configuring a basic Xorg setup. If you're reading the
chapter in order, there shouldn't be any problems.
> You also need dbus_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, like for KDE.
I believe the instructions account for that, too. DBus should be started
by ConsoleKit, which is started when running `startx` if your ~/.xinitrc
file contains the line printed in that section of the Handbook.
> Also, to start, you need "startxfce4", not "startx".
`startx` is part of x11/xinit, and executes whatever is present in the
~/.xinitrc file. Again, if you followed the instructions in the order
they're presented, `startxfce4` should already be in ~/.xinitrc, and
`startx` should work just fine.
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