Installing XFCE4 under SuSE 8.2

[dennis tuchler]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:47, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Dennis, 
> 
> the startup scripts provided with xfce are for gdm, not kdm.
> 
> I also included some stuff for RedHat and Mandrake to pick it up. I know
> nothing about SuSE actually.
> 
> As for starting xfce4 from a terminal, try "startxfce4"
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.

In the final version of 4, will there be a way to make xfce list itself
on the KDE startup menu?  to make itself the default desktop (with the
appropriate way of selecting other desktops as taste dictates)?

I rather like the idea of a relatively spare desktop and xfce seems to
be the right one.  However, I doubt I am alone in wanting some
flexibility and integration with the kdm as well as gdm.

Thanks

dj tuchler

>  
> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 22:41, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 15:34, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On 07/16/03 13:28, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I downloaded xfce4-rc1-rpm-suse82.tar.bz2 and unpacked it to a
> > > > directory.  I then ran yast2 -i * and installed xfce4.  After rebooting,
> > > > I could not call it up.
> > > > 
> > > > Please advise as to what I should check for.
> > > 
> > > An error message?  A description of what exactly is occuring,and what you 
> > > expect to occur.  "could not call it up" doesn't really tell us anything.
> > 
> > Thank you for your quick response to my note.
> > 
> > There was no entry on the list of desktops available on the KDE startup
> > screen and, when I logged onto KDE, opened a terminal and entered "xfce"
> > or "xfce4" nothing happened except a  "command not found" message.