installing xfce by non root

[Stephane Paltani]

Hum, that's because xfce tries to write the lib/gtk/themes directory.
As I had to install gtk as well, on my system, I can write there too.
I guess the only "problem" you have is that you cannot use xfce
theme.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to ignore errors occuring during the
installation of xfce_theme. This is quite easy to do in a Makefile (putting
a "-" before the command), but I don't know whether automake supports that.

Stephane

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> 
> Thanks, works great. Although I still have to remove xfce_theme from the make
> install.
> 
> Edscott
> 
> On Thursday 14 March 2002 16:17, Stephane Paltani wrote:
> > 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