Installing 4.2

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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...

To be exact, we don't have a category `libxfce4util'...

Benedikt