Questions on Xfce4.8 installation

[Goffredo Baroncelli]

On 01/19/2011 06:48 PM, Navaneeth.K.N wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just installed the new version (4.8) and works great. Thanks for the
> great product. I have installed this on my Arch Linux. But the new
> version is not yet available on the fedora repositories. So I am
> planning to compile & install Xfce from the fat tarball provided. I
> have following questions,
> 
> 1 - Some components requires garcon but this was not available as part
> of the fat tarball. I had to download it from Git. Is this expected?
> 2 - I am running Xfce4.6 on this fedora machine. Can I install new
> version to a different directory, something like /home/me/xfce4.8 and
> start it from there? Can it work side by side with 4.6?
> 3 - How can I start Xfce from the newly installed directory?

I did so. But the installation start to worked well, when I configured
dbus to read the right xfce configuration file (initially it read the
4.6 ones).
Let me know if you need more info.
> 
> Any help would be great!
>