Re: XFCE Update proposal to 4.12

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:09:21AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:55:14AM +0200, youri wrote:
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> > Do you get the same issue if you use startxfce4 instead of
> > xfce4-session in .xsession ?
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> That seems to work (it logs a few things about missing files/dirs in
> /var/run/dbus, but otherwise seems to reliably start up).
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> Should /var/rund/dbus exist and be somehow populated?
> I only have ~/.dbus.

Ok, Jared pointed out that (1) the dbus in /var/run is the system one,
which depends on dbus=YES in /etc/rc.conf and probably is unrelated to
this issue; and (2) that my above "yes" was not very clear:

I can log in on the console and run "startxfce4" to bring up a new X server
and then xfce4 works.

However, I can not use startxfce4 in my XDM .xsession file - this ends up
invoking xfce4-session in the end as well, which fails just like the direct
invocation.

Apparently I should do startxfce4 instead of direct xfce4-session invocation,
but for the issue at hand it does not make a difference.

Martin