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Biju Chacko wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:36:46 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
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>>031010 Biju Chacko wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:37:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
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>>>>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 ?
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>>>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.
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>>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 .
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>>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.
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>xfce4-session is unreleased code. It's still in CVS and probably needs some
>optimization and stabilization.
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I installed everything in gentoo including session manager and it works 
perfectly, try emerging it with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xfce4-session