Fedora(rawhide) and XFCE 4.4 beta 2

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 9/3/06, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr at pajato.com> wrote:
>> I bit the bullet and installed Xfce 4.4 beta 2
>> (xfce4-4.3.90.2-installer.bin) on my rawhide system.  I installed it
>> to /usr/local thinking that putting /usr/local/bin on my PATH variable
>> before /usr/bin would cause the beta2 executables to run before any
>> yum installed (fedora-extras-development.repo) Xfce 4.2 executables
>> (/usr/bin) so my first question is: was/is this wishful thinking (that
>> I could have both 4.4 beta 2 and 4.2 installed to the same system and
>> not encounter serious issues)?
> 
> Officially I believe having multiple installs is unsupported. Some of
> us devs do it (I do not) and in the past, attempts have lead to major
> library conflicts

No problem.  I realize full well that I am pursuing a high risk course. 
  FWIW I faced the choice of using the supported (Fedora) Xfce 4.2 
(getting real stale), using a developer repo that a RedHat dude created 
with Xfce 4.4 beta 1 or biting the bullet and installing Xfce 4.4 beta 
2.  The latter was most appealing to me even though it is fraught with risk.

>> I am running a dual head configuration (individual displays rather
>> than xinerama).  There are two issues that pop up immediately that I
>> need to solve:
>>
>> 1) there is a bar across the top of both displays that appears to be
>> an orphaned panel, i.e. I cannot get rid of it (the original panel
>> that was at the top has been moved to the bottom of screen 0 and works
>> just fine there.

I was able to solve this problem.  I killed two taskbar processes, saved 
and then restarted the session.  They were gone.  This says to me that 
Xfce 4.2 cruft was stored in the saved session.

>> 2) I cannot seem to use the settings->panel manager dialog to
>> accomplish much with the second display.  When I click on the box
>> representing the second display the dialog disappears along with all
>> the applications running in the fist display.  I will need to repeat
>> this a few more times before I can accurately describe what is really
>> going on, so this description represents my first take.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure what to tell you here. I don't believe any of the primary
> devs use Xinerama so support has always been based on heavy reliance
> on user testing. So ordinarily I'd encourage you to file some detailed
> bug reports. But since you have two versions of Xfce installed....

which means it will probably be a waste of my time, so I will hold off 
until Fedora supports xfce 4.4 in rawhide, something I'm not expecting 
anytime soon.  Hopefully by that time I will have pulled out enough 
arrows to add value to that discussion/process. :-)

-pmr