Corrections to handbook/x11-wm.html

[Paul Hoffman]

On 3 May 2017, at 7:01, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:

> 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.

I now see that, but I wasn't reading in order. I searched for "freebsd 
xfce" and got directly to x11-wm.html, which is section 5.6. Nothing on 
that page points back to 5.3 (or, as I can see now, the good stuff on 
5.4).

I don't know if this is an actionable bug. That is, I bet many other 
handbook pages that are section X.6 rely on you having started reading 
at X.1. If you agree, feel free to close this report. If not, a simple 
pointer at the top of the page that says "You must have Xorg already set 
up and should probably read this whole chapter starting at 5.1" would be 
useful.

Thanks for the pointer to the earlier material!

--Paul Hoffman