HowTo install Xfce into home directory

[Peeter Vois]

Some important information:

The logoff screen do find theyr icons when xfce is installed into 
prefixed /usr/local directory.

Best Regards,
Peeter Vois

Peeter Vois wrote:

>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:
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>>Peeter Vois wrote:
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>>>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.
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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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