Installing XFCE4 under SuSE 8.2

[Olivier Fourdan]

Dennis,

I have nothing against kdm, I simply know nothing about it...

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 02:02, dennis tuchler wrote:
> 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.
> 
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