How to install Xfce from source to local prefix

[Mike Massonnet]

2009/11/17 Juha <kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi>:
> Hi !
>
> I have been trying to install Xfce 4.6.1 to my new Ubuntu 9.10 system into
> /usr/local/xfce, but failing miserably with:
> ....
> Unable to determine failsafe session name.  Possible causes: xfconfd isn't
> running (D-Bus setup problem); environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set
> incorrectly (must include "/usr/local/xfce/etc"), or xfce4-session is
> installed incorrectly.
> ....
> When trying to start xfce4-session. Yes, it is true that xfconfd is not
> running, but does anybody
> know how and where DBUS should be setup so that xfconfd would run
> automatically?

You just need to have dbus installed, independant of the prefix.

> I have set
> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:/usr/local/xfce/etc/xdg

It shouldn't be /usr/local/xfce/etc/xdg, but just /usr/local/etc/xdg.

> If I run
> /usr/local/xfce/libexec/xfconfd
> before xfce4-session I do not get errors.

Don't try to run xfce4-session, you must use the startxfce4 script
that will run all the needed pieces.

> Juha


-- 
Mike