I have succesfully installed XFCE 4.4. It's up and running fine. So far I've discovered these issues: - If you want desktop icons (more than just icons from minimized apps) you need to have dbus installed. I tried with dbus-1.0.2 and dbus-glib-0.73. In the BLFS book is an old dbus version. The new version requires the seperate dbus-glib package.
- For thunar to recognize changes to the filesystem automatically you need gamin. Tried with the book version (0.17) and works fine. Gamin 0.18 has some problems (performance and not always working). - Image preview support in Thunar requires, besides images libraries, shared-mime-info. Without /usr/share/mime I couldn't get image preview support. So this is a recommend dependency. - Icons in Thunar depend on an icon theme in /usr/share/icons. The default icon theme from the xfce package installs this so you don't need to change ~/.gtkrc-2.0. The hicolor-icon-theme provides optional icons not in the xfce icon theme (as in the BLFS instructions, it runs fine without it however). - Hal support in XFCE dependes on the optional thunar-volman which seems to work reasonable so far (hal-0.5.8.1) - The new Terminal application requires vte. Tested with the book version. - For "tips and tricks" at startup you need fortune-mod, which in turn depends on recode. These packages are not in the BLFS book. I've installed these using the instructions from gentoo ebuilds. - CUPS is an optional dependency. It is required for printing support. a2ps is not required. Nor is any of these packages required for compiling xfprint. Wilco -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
