xfce4

[Biju Chacko]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:04:39 -0700, Collins wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:21:49 +0100
> Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at moongroup.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2) All information on how to build xfce 4 from CVS can be found on
> >    http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/xfce4-cvs.html
> > 
> 
> OK, I followed the excellent instructions at this site.  Here are the
> results:
> 
> 1. All source except dbh works with ./configure. Excellent.

Complain to Edscott. ;-)

> 2. I cobbled together a startxfce4 script from the examples and ran
> it. Try one was not too exciting - missing library.  For those of you
> who run gentoo, you need to run env-update to regenerate the ld.so
> cache. Even reboot will not cure.
> 3. Second try was successful.  Excellent work, xfce folks! 
> 4. What is the format of the xfbdrc4 rc file?  xfdbrc -i will not reun
> because of this.

Should be the same as in xfce3x.

> 5. Bummer that session history and application restart is not working
> yet!

Theoretically, any SM compliant session manager like xsm or
gnome-session should work. I have not had any success with this myself.

> 6. Obviously a known problem, but quit from the panel only quits the
> panel; you have to select quit from the main menu to quit for real.

This will change if you use a session manager.

> 7. Is the panel going to be customisable, unlike prior xfce?

Oh boy, is it customisable!

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