XFCE4 at last: queries

[Biju Chacko]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:36:46 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> 031010 Biju Chacko wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:37:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> another suggestion came to mind while i slept today.
> >> there needs to be a user-friendly way to choose which bits to start:
> >> editing  ~/.xfce4/xinitrc  is ok for me, but not ordinary users out there.
> >> esp i really don't like taskbars (M$ ugh!), but love the iconbox.
> >> another item for the settings dialog ?
> > You're quite right about this. xfce4-session takes care of this very well.
> > Choosing start-up applications is as simple
> > as making sure that they are running when you save the session.
> 
> i plan to try session management once things settle down in the new box;
> it works well on my present box via KDM & XFCE 3 .
> 
> Gentoo marks XFCE 4 as 'unstable', but XFCE4-session as 'fails' (whatever).
> i'm not sure how upto-date their version of the latter is,
> but i can download & compile it myself, if need be.
> IIRC there were some serious problems with it at first, but it's ok now.

xfce4-session is unreleased code. It's still in CVS and probably needs some
optimization and stabilization.

-- b

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