[ale] xfce 4 and gentoo

[Calvin Harrigan]

I did, even went as far as creating a new user and logging in from that. 
  Still no go, same blank screen.

On 8/18/2010 10:56 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> Did you remove (rename) your ~/.conf and ~/.config directories? `find
> ~ -name *xfce*` on my Debian VM indicates that this is where XFCE
> stores its configuration.
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Calvin Harrigan
> <charriglists at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
>> Does anyone on the list use gentoo and xfce4?
>> Over the weekend I switched from kde to xfce, everything went smoothly.
>>   There were some conflicts afterwards with libpng when I installed
>> eagle, but they all seemed to resolve properly following the on screen
>> instructions.  All this was done while inside xfce. Everything worked
>> and I shutdown normally.  The next day I log in via slim and nothing!
>> Just a black screen, no mouse, no nothing.  I've since uninstalled and
>> re-installed xfce hoping that it was a library conflict or something, no
>> dice.  I haven't been able to find anything on gentoo's forums, waiting
>> for approval on the xfce forum, general googling didn't produce anything
>> useful.  Generally with a problem like this you can simply look through
>> the logs to find something that might be wrong.  I can't find any log
>> files for xfce.  The problem seems to be around xfcedesktop, if I
>> replace the startxfce4 with say xfce4-panel in .xinitrc the panel does
>> indeed display, but still no mouse and no ability to do anything.  The
>> problem is not with x as startkde still brings up kde just fine, so I've
>> been using it temporarily.  I really like the simple elegance of xfce,
>> so I'm looking for any help to get it working again.  Thanks.
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