installing xfce by non root

[Stephane Paltani]

Hi,

Never had any problem with non-root installation (which I do ~ every other
xfce release). For etc files, I just have to add a switch to configure script:

--sysconfdir=/export/spaltani/local/etc

(I also have --datadir=/export/spaltani/local/share for xfce data).
Other than that, I do not need to change anything.

The error message you get seems indeed related to the removal of xfce_themes,
which is not necessary with the --sysconfdir switch.

Stephane
 

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> 
> Has anybody installed xfce in a user directory? I'm trying to install it on a
> linux cluster where I don't have root access, and I have to remove
> xfce_themes from the make install process, and the stuff in /etc/X11/xfce
> can't be put somewhere else.
> 
> And once I try to run the programs, I get a lot of :
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so"
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> --
> saludos,
> 
> Edscott