Problem with FC1-Xfce4-RPM-Packages

[Shahar Weiss]

exs wrote:

>Again, this is at every theme so.
>meaningless which i choose, every theme looks like that. a desktop
>environment should (only my meaning) looks nice and be fast. xfce4 is
>still fast but dont look nice anymore. and yes, i have trashed xfce
>because of that, you are right. anyway, at the technical aspect icewm is
>more development then xfce4. i only chose xfce4 because its look better
>then icewm, but if the main advantage arent ordered anymore...... pls,
>iam not the crack of compiling xfce4. if somebody are nice enough to
>compile the cvsverion and build rpmpackages for fc2 i would be thanks.
>else i remain on icewm :) perhaps for ever, because day for day, i find
>icewm better and xfce4 would loose a user :D
>
>greetz
>exs
>
>Am Mi, den 26.05.2004 schrieb Olivier um 22:25:
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>>ROTFL! This is the theme, go the xfce theme manager and choose another
>>one! Geez, and you said you've trashed xfce because of that?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Olivier.
>>
>>On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:18, exs wrote:
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>>>Thank you, but its not possible as well. i tried to insall the packages
>>>from the 4th cd of fc2, but after the install i got the same
>>>design-error. i think its smart to make a shot of that:
>>>http://www.coding-dc.de/user/exs/xfce4.jpg Pls take a look on that. as i
>>>was saying, its not critical, but not nice as well.
>>>
>>>by the way, before i forget it, on the fedora cd you have only a few
>>>xfce4 rpmpackages, but not enough to install a complete xfce4. in order
>>>to i installed the rest with yum and this yum.conf:
>>>
>>>[main]
>>>cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>>>debuglevel=2
>>>logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>>>pkgpolicy=newest
>>>distroverpkg=fedora-release
>>>tolerant=1
>>>exactarch=1
>>>
>>>[newrpms.sunsite.dk]
>>>name=Fedora Core 1 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
>>>baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc1
>>>
>>>I hope you are able to help me.
>>>Thx.
>>>
>>>
>>>Am Mi, den 26.05.2004 schrieb Andy Choens um 17:30:
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>>>
>>>>If you try to install the FC1 XFCE packages on a FC2 box, it will
>>>>probably cause you lots of grief.  I never saw any packages for FC1
>>>>beyond 4.0.3, which has issues with GTK 2.4.
>>>>
>>>>If you have FC2 and want to use XFCE (which of course you do) use the
>>>>rpms on the 4th FC2 CD.  They work great!  They are XFCE 4.0.5, which I
>>>>believe is still the newest stable release.
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 09:41, exs wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Iam not sure whether the following is a Failure by myself or a
>>>>>RPM-Failure. When I install Xfce4-RPM-Packages for FC1 at FC2, i get
>>>>>"wrong" or failure Button-Designing. Maybe the Failure is admits. When i
>>>>>installed the Xfce4-RPM-Packages for FC1 at FC1 i didnt get the
>>>>>Designing failure. Its not critical, but in my case enough to change the
>>>>>desktop environment at icewm.
>>>>>
>>>>>I hope you understood what I said.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>exs
>>>>>
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>>>>>http://www.xfce.org
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Om Mani Padme Hume
>>>>        --Traditional Tibetan Blessing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
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>>>http://www.xfce.org
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>>>
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Are you sure you don't have a .gtk2rc file in your home dir? If you do, 
remove it, restart X, and try changing the theme in XFce.

Shahar.