Xfce and FC2 (installs, but not fully functional?)
Patrick O. Coffey
pcoffey at twcny.rr.com
Wed May 19 14:44:51 UTC 2004
If you go to www.xfce.org, then go to their overview page. It lists all
the components of Xfce by package and gives a brief description of what
it does. You could then install those packages off the cd. Not a
convenient way of doing it, but you'll get everything you need.
Semper Fidelis,
Patrick Coffey
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 09:51, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
> > Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >
> >> how am i supposed to install Xfce in FC2? (without installing everything)
> [snip]
> > I copied all the xfce*.rpm files from CD4 to a directory and did an rpm
> > -Uvh *.rpm to install XFce. It installed fine and it now appears in the
> > session menu.
> >
> > However, when I run it, I get a message window that says:
> > "Your window manager does not seem to support the new window manager
> > hints as defined on http:/www.freedesktop.org. Some XFce features may
> > not work as intended."
>
> this is because you have *not* copied all needed RPMs! you left out the
> window manager xfwm4.rpm...
> exactly this was my complaint: how am i supposed to know that xfwm4 is
> the window manager for xfce?
> is not a dependency, because xfce can work without it (if we can call
> this "work") and yum will not automatically install it as dependency.
>
> also note xffm.rpm - the file manager, probably xfsprogs (don't know if
> is needed) and all libxfce*.rpm and xfdesktop.rpm
>
> --
> nicu
>
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