How to start XFCE v4.2 RC3 once installed over 4.06

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:35:09AM -0700, Myles Green wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:26:38 +0100
> jan <goplay at quick.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I installed Xfce v4.2 RC3 (using grafical interface -
> > xfce4-4.2RC3-installer.bin on Gentoo). 
> > 
> > My problem is: 
> > When I use "startxfce4" or "xfce4-session" command I get my previous
> > desktop with Xfce v4.06 (Old Xfce Setting manager, old panel, and so
> > on
> > ...)
> > 
> > Did I do something wrong ? Installation completed succesfully.
> 
> That depends, when did you install 4.2 to, /usr/local (that's the
> default location) ? Where is 4.0.6 installed to? You might want to try
> using the full path to startxfce4(/usr/local/startxfce4) and see where
> that gets you.
> 

Even that is not enough. You need to make sure that the new programs are found
in the PATH before the old ones and that the new libraries are also found
before the old libraries.

The first one is a simple matter of setting the PATH:

 $ export PATH=/path/to/xfce/bin:$PATH

The second one I'm not sure about, but you could try settings LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

 $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/xfce/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH


Note that Xfce 4.2 was not designed to run paralel to 4.0, so there may be
more unforseen problems.

	Jasper

> HTH,
> Myles
> 
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