HowTo install Xfce into home directory

[Peeter Vois]

Hi,

It turns out to be very big problem. Looks like applications do not care 
about the compile time prefix when searching plugins. The dynamic 
libraries will probably have conflicts too.

I cave up. I took another computer and removed the old xfce 4.2 from it. 
Then I installed the xfce with installer and things are not much better:

*) in thunar, the Crystal SVG themes do not have folder icons
*) panel does not have configuration utility
*) settings manager does not know icons for
->    Preferred applications
->    Window manager tweaks
*) logoff screen does not know the icons for
->    Logout
->    Restart

These are for short the problems, currently

Peeter

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>Peeter Vois wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>You can link the themes to ~/.themes to make them available to GTK.
>There's also a GTK environment variable for theme paths, but I do not
>remember it right now.
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>>I have found no HowTo on Xfce wiki or related pages.
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>Feel free to create a howto. ;-)
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>>Best Regards,
>>Peeter Vois
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>Benedikt
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