Linked by Robert Follett on Tue 2nd Sep 2003 15:19 UTC
This guide will introduce you to XFce, the popular (CDE-inspired in the past) Unix/X11 graphical environment, and it will give you pointers how to install it.
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chemicalscum wrote: ...So from then on I have mostly installed from source.
I am therefore a little dubious of a lot of rpms and that is why I asked if anyone had tried installing XFce 4 on Mandrake 9.1 from rpm.
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FYI:
RPMS for 9.1 are available almost as fast as the release becomes a release. Reports are that they work "just fine".
From Todd S: " Mandrake 9.1 rpm's at same bat-site: http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ "
To build from source on Mandrake you will have to:
a) modify some of the XFce4 spec files to "Require" "gtk+2" rather than "gtk2" then use rpm -bs to build a new SRPM(or go for broke and use rpm -ba ...:)
*or*
b) modify and build GTK+ package (gtk+2...mdk) to use the "virtual" package(s) "gtk2"
*or*
c) use the MDK 9.2 RC1 which is supposed to have the "virtual" (RH compatible) "gtk2" packages already in the gtk+2 RPM.(i have not tried it yet but that's what the gtk+2.2.3...mdk changelog states...)
Personally, I have been using XFce4 with MDK 9.0 since Beta 1 and took the "b" method since it allowed the most flexibility for multiple installs of XFce4 without having to change the spec files everytime. Also allowed me to use CVS...
XFce4 works great but Session Management is missing from the XFce 4.0 release and will not be available until sometime later(supposedly, @ 4.2). The xfce4-session can be used but it is still alpha quality, at least it has been here; YMMV.
And, BTW, there are still a number of unresolved issues with MDK 9.1 -> you may be better off with MDK 9.2RC1, or to just wait a few more weeks for the 9.2 release.