Xfce and FC2 (installs, but not fully functional?)

[Patrick O. Coffey]

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
>