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Date:      Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:57:45 +0100
From:      Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: trying out xfce 4.6 RC1?
Message-ID:  <498B6EE9.8080908@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <e890cae60902050114w44d084ffm10d7d1f42614c23e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20090131230715.ce4f7c39.lehmann@ans-netz.de>	 <4988B827.9010809@freebsd.org>	 <20090204071252.6f922e0e.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <e890cae60902050114w44d084ffm10d7d1f42614c23e@mail.gmail.com>

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Rene Ladan schreef:
> 2009/2/4 Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>:
>> Rene Ladan wrote:
>>
>>> I get an error when starting up xfce4. I think the problem is that
>>> /usr/local/libexec/xfconfd is not run correctly.
>> what is the errormessage you are getting?
>>
> I get a message box when starting XFCE4:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Unable to load a failsafe session"
> 
> "Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes:
> xfconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem); environment
> variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/
> usr/local/etc"), or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly."
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> There is only one button on the dialog box, "Exit" (with the leave-door
> icon).
> 
> dbus and hald are running, I did setenv XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /usr/local/etc
> before running startxfce4.  xfce4-session is installed.  There are messages
> that xfconfd exited with signal 11 in /var/log/messages.
>
After applying a patch to xfconfd from xfce bugzilla everything works fine,
except that the icons in the taskbar are missing (for Terminal, Mousepad, Thunar,
and $browser).

Regards,
Rene
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