Xfce with FC2

Hi,

I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2, I cant
find it within the distro. It's not found with up2date or yum (I added
livna, too). Any help would be appreciated. Does it come with FC2 or am I
crazy?

Thanks,
BT

[Aly Dharshi]

Hi BT,

I know its on the cdrom, I installed it, it didn't seem to work for me at all, 
it had issues pertaining to something not complying with Xorg's stuff, so what I 
had happening was there was no title bar etc etc  Some of the plugins I wanted 
weren't installing correctly et al.

The easiest way to fix that without installing the FC2 rpms is to just 
install/compile the SRPMS from XFCE.org and they work just fine out of the box. 
I don't know if I am the only jackass who is having this problem with the 
bundled XFCE but if I am I would like to know what I am doing wrong.

Cheers,

Aly.

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2, I cant
> find it within the distro. It's not found with up2date or yum (I added
> livna, too). Any help would be appreciated. Does it come with FC2 or am I
> crazy?
>
> Thanks,
> BT

[Chris McCutcheon]

Here's a link to a FC2 review.  At the bottom of the page the author 
shows how he installed xfce.  It worked for, but I start it from the 
text login.  Hope it helps.  http://www.linuxcompatible.org/article14-2.html

-Chris McCutcheon-

Aly Dharshi wrote:
> Hi BT,
> I know its on the cdrom, I installed it, it didn't seem to work 
>
> for me at all, it had issues pertaining to something not complying 
> with Xorg's stuff, so what I had happening was there was no title bar 
> etc etc  Some of the plugins I wanted weren't installing correctly et al.
> The easiest way to fix that without installing the FC2 rpms is to 
>
> just install/compile the SRPMS from XFCE.org and they work just fine 
> out of the box. I don't know if I am the only jackass who is having 
> this problem with the bundled XFCE but if I am I would like to know 
> what I am doing wrong.
> Cheers,
>
> Aly.
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2, 
> > I cant
> > find it within the distro. It's not found with up2date or yum (I added
> > livna, too). Any help would be appreciated. Does it come with FC2 or 
> > am I
> > crazy?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > BT

[Peter Boy]

Am Mo, den 31.05.2004 schrieb [e-mail] um 17:12:
> I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2, I cant
> find it within the distro.

On CD4 there xfce* files and on CD3 there are libxfce* files. You have to copy
these files into one directory and perform a rpm -i * in that dir.

I was disappointed by xfce, or, more precisely, by the way it is 
preconfigured by Red Hat.

Peter

[Jeff Allison]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:12, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2, I cant
> find it within the distro. It's not found with up2date or yum (I added
> livna, too). Any help would be appreciated. Does it come with FC2 or am I
> crazy?
>
> Thanks,
> BT

I'm using it on fc1 I got it from Newrpms
http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/

Jeff

[Cy Bais]

I used the same instructions and it added XFCE to GDM > Session.

Cy

Chris McCutcheon  wrote:
Here's a link to a FC2 review. At the bottom of the page the author 
shows how he installed xfce. It worked for, but I start it from the 
text login. Hope it helps. http://www.linuxcompatible.org/article14-2.html

-Chris McCutcheon-

Aly Dharshi wrote:
> Hi BT,
>
> I know its on the cdrom, I installed it, it didn't seem to work 
> for me at all, it had issues pertaining to something not complying 
> with Xorg's stuff, so what I had happening was there was no title bar 
> etc etc Some of the plugins I wanted weren't installing correctly et al.
>
> The easiest way to fix that without installing the FC2 rpms is to 
> just install/compile the SRPMS from XFCE.org and they work just fine 
> out of the box. I don't know if I am the only jackass who is having 
> this problem with the bundled XFCE but if I am I would like to know 
> what I am doing wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aly.
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2, 
> > I cant
> > find it within the distro. It's not found with up2date or yum (I added
> > livna, too). Any help would be appreciated. Does it come with FC2 or 
> > am I
> > crazy?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > BT