Observations on 3.8.16

[Joe Klemmer]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 10:53, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> Indeed,
> This is something that bugged me for a long time.
> If the user gets the source tarball, he can use :
> 
> ./configure --enable-old-style [some other options here] and the system
> will come up with the wonderfull coloured workspace buttons .

	I do this with the rpm's, myself.
 
> Also, something else I wrote is the fact that you have to hunt down
> older versions of the executables (xfwm, startxfce etc.) and replace
> them with the newlly compiled one. Most of the time, they will be
> sitting on /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin

	Use one of the package management tools (rpm, dpkg, emp, xyz...) and
you don't have to worry about any of that.

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