Fedora Core 1 and xfce4 - misc. comments/settings/questions

[Figueiredo Paulo]

Hi,
I have try to make the changes that you mention below,
but the xfce doesn't appear available from xdm login
screen under "Sessions". I'm also using Fedore. Any
clue about why I can't see that.

Best Regards,
Paulo

--- Marc Schwartz <mschwartz at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> [Note: this is a re-send of a post from yesterday,
> which I sent under
> the wrong "From" address, so it probably got
> rejected. Apologies in
> advance for the duplication, if the original comes
> through as well.]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> After the recent issues with xfwm4 under FC1 and
> Gnome, I now have xfce4
> running. Still playing around with some things
> getting "comfortable". I
> thought that I would offer some comments that might
> be helpful, some of
> which might make sense to add to the xfce4 FAQ. I
> also have a couple of
> follow up questions that are still open issues.
> 
> I should note that I installed xfce4* from a FC1 yum
> repository
> (NewRPMS.sunsite.dk) using precompiled FC1 RPMS.
> This included the xfce4
> "goodies" RPMS.
> 
> 
> Comments:
> 
> 1. Changing the default use of xterm to
> gnome-terminal:
> 
> Change environment variable TERMCMD to
> "gnome-terminal".
> 
> Use: export TERMCMD="gnome-terminal"
> 
> I did this in ~/.bashrc, but you can do this in
> /etc/xfce4/xinitrc or
> ~/.xfce4/xinitrc, as an alternative I suppose. If
> you prefer a different
> terminal app, modify the above accordingly.
> 
> 
> 
> 2. Adding xfce4 to the xdm login sessions menu:
> 
> You need to copy 10XFce4 in the following manner as
> root:
> 
> cp /etc/X11/wmsession.d/10XFce4
> /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/10XFce4
> 
> Then xfce4 will be available from the init 5 xdm
> login screen under
> "Sessions".
> 
> 
> 
> 3. To set xfce4 as the default desktop, I am still
> playing with this,
> but I have found some scripts and settings that may
> be of help to folks
> as an interim step.
> 
> First, the script file
> /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.xfce4
> does get created via the installation that I used.
> However, this file,
> which does the desktop switching to xfce4 from a
> Gnome session, does not
> get picked up by the scripts that build/use the
> desktop switcher GUI and
> therefore does not show.
> 
> What I have done so far is to create the file
> ~/.Xclients containing the
> line:
> 
> startxfce4
> 
> With this in place, I can now run xfce4 as the
> default desktop without
> having to select it from the xdm menu each time.
> 
> 
> 
> 4. I am running on a Dell i8200 laptop with a 1600 x
> 1200 lcd panel
> (NVidia 64Mb card). I copied /etc/xfce4/xinitrc to:
> 
> ~/.xfce4/xinitrc
> 
> So that I could edit it locally for me, even though
> I am the only user
> of the system.
> 
> In playing around with the Xft settings in the above
> file, I finally
> came up with some that yield the same results that I
> had using the Gnome
> font-config GUI.
> 
> These are:
> 
> xrdb -nocpp -merge - << EOF
> Xft.antialias: 1
> Xft.dpi: 133
> Xft.hinting: 1
> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
> Xft.rgba: vrgb
> EOF
> 
> 
> Anti-aliased fonts are much easier for me to read on
> lcd panels, so this
> setup may be of help for others, trying to replicate
> their Gnome
> settings. You will need to modify the above of
> course to your taste and
> screen resolution.
> 
> 
> Question:
> 
> 1. I have tried to add the RHN notification applet
> to the system tray in
> the xfce panels.  I can do this using
> rhn-applet-gui& from a console
> without problem.
> 
> However, when trying to get this to happen
> automatically at login, I
> tried both adding the command to the end of
> ~/.xfce4/xinitrc and putting
> a symlink to the command in ~/Desktop/Autostart.
> Neither method worked. 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> I suspect that I will have other questions and
> tweaks over the coming
> days, but thought that I would offer these for now.
> 
> To Olivier and the other developers, well done! This
> is a change from
> Gnome of course, but I'll get over it...just like
> forcing myself to use
> emacs as a front end (ESS) for the statistical
> package
> (http://www.r-project.org/) that I use.
> 
> 
> Best regards and thanks,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 
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