Dumb Question

Bruce Miller mistercool at adelphia.net
Sat Jan 15 17:05:56 CET 2005


Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> I'll provide an rpm for xfwm4 with the compositor enabled in the
> rpm/extras/ directory.

Wonderfull! 
Thanks; now, I'm _really_ looking forward to 4.2 !! :>


> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:53 -0500, Bruce Miller wrote:
> 
>>Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>
>>>Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I will be grabbing XFCE when it comes out in final form this weekend.  
>>>>Being a belt-and-suspenders type (very risk averse) I have an 
>>>>elementary question before I start:
>>>>
>>>>I notice that there are two installers for XFCE.  One is for XFCE and 
>>>>the other is for GTK+XFCE engine.  What is the difference between the 
>>>>two?  I don't think I need both.
>>>
>>>
>>>The gtk2-xfce-engine-installer contains the Xfce Gtk+ Theme Engine, 
>>>whereas the xfce4-installer contains the Xfce Desktop. They are separate 
>>>because the Gtk+ Theme Engine has to be installed in the same prefix as 
>>>Gtk+ itself, whereupon Xfce can be installed basicly everywhere on your 
>>>system.
>>
>>A similar question that occured to me: I see that fedora rpms will (probably)
>>be available as well; does xfwm4 come with the compositing support enabled,
>>or do we need to compile from source for that?
>>
>>If the latter, it would be good to clarify that somewhere; probably on the
>>download page, rather than the announcement, but ...
>>I hesititate to bring this up so soon before release, but it will probably
>>solve some mysteries for people...
>>
>>[I've installed 4.1.99.3-1, which _seems_ not to have it enabled... or else
>>I've got something misconfigured]
>>
>>Thanks; and looking forward to 4.2!
>>Bruce
>>
>>
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