HowTo install Xfce into home directory

[Peeter Vois]

Hi,

I was trying to install Xfce into home directory in order to check 
quality of translation and not to disturb others who are using Xfce 4.2. 
I used the oscillation binary package. It was proposing me nicely to 
install Xfce into /home/myname/local. The installation was successful, 
though it was needed to modify the ~/.Xclients file to execute the 
/home/myname/local/bin/startxfce4 script. I also modified the PATH 
system variable.

New Xfce started succesfully. But looks like it does not search themes 
and icons from subdirectories of /home/myname/local but still looks at 
/usr subdirectories. For example thunar is not able to show folder 
icons, configuration-manager is not able to show icons for some new 
configuration items and so on. Also there were problems with adding 
items into panel, the panel got idle and no menu with items appeared.

I have found no HowTo on Xfce wiki or related pages.

Best Regards,
Peeter Vois