how to start xfce4.8 desktop environment

[Liviu Andronic]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM, janu mam <janakiramulu.mtech at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi i idid lfs-6.7 and i am following
> blfs-svn:http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/introduction.html
> i have installed Fluxbox-1.1.1 as windows manager
>
> now i want xfce4.8 as desktop environment
> i installed all packages as order mentioned here
> http://www.xfce.org/download/building
> [note:i am not using git]
>
> i just taking each package and unter,cd into extracted dir and
> [example:
>  root [ ~ ]# cd /home/janu/Downloads/xc]#tar -jxf xfce-4.8.tar.bz2
> root [ ~ ]# cd /home/janu/Downloads/xc/]#cd src/
> root [ ~ ]# cd /home/janu/Downloads/xc/src/ here untar each package and then
> ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
>
It seems that you have issues building xfwm4. Again, what Linux
distribution are you using? It might be that you already have binaries
available.
Liviu



> i installed all packages and its dependencies except xfwm4
>  NOTE:the xfconf package provides libxfconf, xfconf-query and xfconfd.
>
>   so xfwm4 one of dependency is :libxfconf
> so i reinstalled xfconf[third package] again ,still xfwm4 giving errors
> xfwm4-4.8.0 errors:
> root [ /home/janu/Downloads/xc/src/xfwm4-4.8.0 ]# ./configure
> --prefix=/usr && make && make install
> /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRFreeOutputInfo'
> /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRFreeScreenResources'
> /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRGetOutputPrimary'
> /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRFreeCrtcInfo'
> /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRGetCrtcInfo'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [xfwm4] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/janu/Downloads/xc/src/xfwm4-4.8.0/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/janu/Downloads/xc/src/xfwm4-4.8.0'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>   i think xfwm/xfwm4 is window manager[note:if xfwm/xfwm4 is same like
>   fluxbox-i can skip this xfwm installation part right??.]
>   i have already installed Fluxbox-1.1.1 as window manager
>   i think almost i done xfce desktop environment
>   to start xfce i need to change/add some thing to .xinitrc file right?
>   my xinitrc file:
>   root [ ~ ]# cat .xinitrc
>   startfluxbox
>
> shall i add below things to xinitrc to start xfce desktop environment:
>
>   echo startxfce4 > ~/.xinitrc
>   echo xfce4-session > ~/.xinitrc
> this is fine???
>
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