I installed xfce4 4.2.0 but startxfce4 does not much ore than seeing a xfce-splash and giving me a right click menu. on the console there was a warning, that dbus was not found in my $PATH so i installed dbus from portage. And now i have all the xfce4 stuff :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xfce4 2. startxfce4 3. Actual Results: missing xfce4-panel, taskbar, ... Expected Results: started all this i think it can be easy fixed, cause it is just a missing dependancy.
xfce 4.2 in no way depends on dbus, it doesn't even use dbus. So I don't know what the problem was.
According to the /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc it looks for it and trys to run it if it exists. I know I get an error about no dbus in `which dbus-launch`. It doesn't seem to affect xfce4 but can the command be changed to it doesn't give that error? # Use dbus-launch if installed. if test x"$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" = x""; then dbuslaunch=`which dbus-launch` if test x"$dbuslaunch" != x"" -a x"$dbuslaunch" != x"no"; then eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` fi fi
