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saddletramp
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will check into it again tomorrow. time for work now.
thanks
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saddletramp
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| noldrin wrote: | foo = generic term to search for, mean to put xfce in it's place.
What do you mean by not showing up in sessions? In the login screen? I had the problem of finding the right package that got it in there. I should have written it down. Make sure you have:
xfwm4
xfdesktop
xfce4-session
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just tried installing xfce on another machine of mine following your post. it's not showing up in seesions on the login windows on here either!!
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now i'm on first machine i tried installing xfce on. it didn't magically appear on here either. :(
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noldrin
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I was having the same problem, finally I installed a certain package and it boom it was there... why i didn't write it down I don't know.. If I have time I'll install it on my laptop.
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saddletramp
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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wasn't an issue you brought up here?
i've searched on here several times. either missing it or going blind (quite possible)!
appreciate whatever you can dig up.
thanks
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noldrin
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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I was about to and I figured it out. I was going to write down my suggestion of a xfce-install package to simplify the process. I should have at least put it in the wiki. This is a good argument for me to get non production laptops and desktops to run things through on.
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saddletramp
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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you were about to and figured out what?
still can't get xfce on 2 computers. not about to try on any others for now.
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envy
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
Try
yum groupinstall XFCE
That will install a good XFCE-Desktop, and a Session in GDM :)
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noldrin
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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ok.. I installed these packages and dependencies and was able to get pick XFCE from the GDM session menue:
xfce4-session
xfce4-panel
xfce4-testmanager
xfdesktop
xfce-utils
xfwm
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iron_chef
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| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Just to pinpoint the exact solution - the xsession file for xfce4 is in the xfce-utils package. The file in question that makes xfce show up in gdm is /usr/share/xsessions/xfce4.desktop.
Joe
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| iron_chef wrote: | | Just to pinpoint the exact solution - the xsession file for xfce4 is in the xfce-utils package. The file in question that makes xfce show up in gdm is /usr/share/xsessions/xfce4.desktop. |
Very cool. Thanks for following up with this. Then I'll add:
| Code: | apt-get update
apt-get install xfce-utils |
It does seem xfce-session would be the correct place for that file though...
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saddletramp
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:48 am Post subject: |
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cool. i'll try this tomorrow.
thanks all
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iron_chef
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| jebba wrote: | | iron_chef wrote: | | Just to pinpoint the exact solution - the xsession file for xfce4 is in the xfce-utils package. The file in question that makes xfce show up in gdm is /usr/share/xsessions/xfce4.desktop. |
Very cool. Thanks for following up with this. Then I'll add:
| Code: | apt-get update
apt-get install xfce-utils |
It does seem xfce-session would be the correct place for that file though... |
Yeah, I know. Not quite sure why Fedora sticks the xsession file somewhere besides xfce4-session... seems like a fairly important part of actually running an xfce session. :)
You know what would be cool? An xfce "meta-package" RPM that doesn't actually contain any files, but just Depends: on all the necessary xfce4-foo RPMs to have a complete desktop. Perhaps I'll whip up a spec file and build it... would anyone be interested in such a thing?
As an aside, I'd like to mention that I've switched to xfce4 in the last couple of weeks, and it totally rocks. I really like Thunar, it's simple, elegant, and totally blows Nautilus out of the water. I totally dig the right-click "Open Terminal here..." function.
Joe
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saddletramp
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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"As an aside, I'd like to mention that I've switched to xfce4 in the last couple of weeks, and it totally rocks. I really like Thunar, it's simple, elegant, and totally blows Nautilus out of the water. I totally dig the right-click "Open Terminal here..." function. "
yep!!
didn't have a chance today, to try again on this.
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| iron_chef wrote: | | You know what would be cool? An xfce "meta-package" RPM that doesn't actually contain any files, but just Depends: on all the necessary xfce4-foo RPMs to have a complete desktop. Perhaps I'll whip up a spec file and build it... would anyone be interested in such a thing? |
Put the spec in http://bugzilla.blagblagblag.org and i'll put it in the repo.
| iron_chef wrote: | | As an aside, I'd like to mention that I've switched to xfce4 in the last couple of weeks, and it totally rocks. I really like Thunar, it's simple, elegant, and totally blows Nautilus out of the water. I totally dig the right-click "Open Terminal here..." function. |
I haven't used thunar (much?) but damn near everything blows nautilus out of the water. Kind of frustrating that it has been such a pig for so long.
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noldrin
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a screenshot of my blag-o-fied XFCE desktop.
http://noldrin.com/xfce-blag.png
It's 69K and I haven't updated to the 70K icon files which is why the audacious icon is wrong. There seems to be a couple xfce icons that need a blag version. Perhaps I'll look into that :)
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