how to use 4.0.6 & 4.2.0 simultaneously

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:55:47AM -0400, purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
...
> > I would like to know what files got overwritten by Xfce 4.2,
> > because that most definitely would be a bug.
> 
> ... i did another test: i moved my regular  ~/.xfce4  to another name,
> made sure there was nothing of Xfce in  ~/.config  & started 4.2 .
> after the splash screen, the default desktop (IIRC) for 4.0.6 came up
> w what look like the settings window & desktop menus for 4.0.6 :
> the only sign of 4.2 was the splash screen & the exit window.
> after exiting, i checked my home dir & found it had created a new  ~/.xfce4 ,
> which contained  xfce4rc xfce4rc.bak (identical) sessions/ settings/ ,
> wh in turn contained (1st) nothing & (2nd)  xfce-settings.xml backdrop.xml ,
> perhaps reflecting my brief exploration of the settings window;
> there was also  ~/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc ,
> wh had just  2 lines , as i told it not to save a session when exiting.
> 
> when i emerged 4.0.6 (on Gentoo), it installed  /etc/xfce4/ ,
> wh has copies of  xfce4rc xinitrc  (& a lot of language files),
> so perhaps 4.2 is somehow picking up that stuff.
> shdn't 4.2 install something in  /etc  when the install script runs ?
> 
> i deleted all the stuff created by 4.2 , restored  ~/.xfce4  as before
> & am now back to my normal 4.0.6 working environment.
> 
> as for 4.2 , i don't seem able to get any of it except the splash screens.
> 

Well, like I said, that is your reponsibility. They cannot be installed in
paralel, I don't know why you would expect that. If you don't set up your
environment so it runs xfce 4.2, we cannot do anything about that.

	Jasper