Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:30:13 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server already running on display :0 Message-ID: <20120721203013.bc0b05ca.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <500AD7BA.70702@eskk.nu> References: <500AD7BA.70702@eskk.nu>
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:24:26 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > I have a problem that I do not understand. > > At the prompt I give the command startx > > I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist. This means your ~/.xinitrc contains a call to launch Xfce 4, typically the last command, prefixed by "exec", in that file. It seems you don't have Xfce 4 installed. > Copy the file from another system and I get > > X server already running on display :0 > /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open > /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist > > I have not knowingly made any changes to this machine. It's not sufficient to copy just this start script (out of the Xfce 4 software package). You need to _completely_ install it, including all dependencies. You can use "pkg_add -r" to do this, or use the xfce metaport per "make install". > Any suggestions? Just install Xfce 4 in one of the usual ways. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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