Xfce4

**budman7** · 08-07-2005

Originally Posted by a thing

Why become root?

echo "exec startxfce4">~/.xinitrc will set XFCE4 to the default.

I tried this on my Gentoo system, and this is the result

myusername@gentoo ~ $ echo "exec startxfce4">~/.xinitrc
bash: /home/myusername/.xinitrc: Permission denied

**a thing** · 08-07-2005

I've never been denied permission to ~/.xinitrc on Fedora or Debian. It doesn't make sense that a user doesn't have control over his/her own user-specfic config file.

**rootFORlife** · 08-07-2005

i got a suggestion try running slax popcorn edition its xfce it is very nice.
try it.
and yes xfce takes virtually no ram

**psic** · 08-09-2005

There are a few distros that run xfce by default, a nice live variant is Xfld, shows off the xfce environment nicely. Xfce will use less sistem resources than Gnome (and much less than KDE), and it can run apps from both. You can even load the Gnome or KDE services at startup, though this will slow it down quite a bit. Since I've started using xfce, I've also moved away from KDE-centric programs (and to a lesser extent Gnome ones). Everything just runs faster

**DoctorDan** · 08-09-2005

i got it yesterday and its great

im just having trouble changing the BG. when i change it to one of my own png or jpgs it wont load... i just have that wierd X black and white pattern.

**psic** · 08-09-2005

Originally Posted by DoctorDan

i got it yesterday and its great

im just having trouble changing the BG. when i change it to one of my own png or jpgs it wont load... i just have that wierd X black and white pattern.

You got Xfce? Or a distro such as xfld? I've never had a problem with changing the backround, except in Vector, which used the Rox window manager (at least that's what I think it is), which wouldn't let me change the backround in xfce. You did check off the 'show image' in the settings menu, under desktop?

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