Installing 4.2

[Benedikt Meurer]

James Lee wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer [benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de] wrote:
> 
>>Just run the installer with --extract-only, cd to 
>>/tmp/xfce4-4.2.0-installer, make your modifications and run ./bootstrap.sh.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I finally got to install xfce 4.2 on Solaris 5.8.
> But now, I have another problem. It came up with the default
> panel, which is different from by 4.0 panel, so I wanted to
> reset the settings, but nothing came up. So I went to a
> xterm and type xfce-setting-show and got the following :
> 
> local[sparcOS5:bin] : xfce-setting-show
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:1188): libxfce4util-WARNING **: Invalid XDG_CACHE_HOME directory `/home/leekk/.cache', program may behave incorrectly.
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:1188): libxfce4util-WARNING **: Invalid XDG_DATA_HOME directory `/home/leekk/.local/share', program may behave incorrectly.
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:1188): libxfce4util-WARNING **: Invalid XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory `/home/leekk/.config', program may behave incorrectly.
> Error creating directory '/home/leekk/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings': Operation not applicable
> Error creating directory '/home/leekk/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings': Operation not applicable
> 
> I googled and found that there was a bug 724 that is filed
> about nfs mounted home directories (which is what I am on on
> Solaris) against xfce_mkdirhier(). Is there a workaround for
> this? I would like this to work, since my old installation
> is now gone.

The proper solution seems to be to apply the patch mentioned in the 
problem report. Unfortunately the reporter didn't filed the report 
against libxfce4util, and so I wasn't notified of this problem until 
now. I'll have a look at this for 4.2.1/4.4.0.

> Thanks a lot.
> James.

Benedikt