I highly recommend Xfce 4.4 to anyone looking for a fast, asethetically-pleasing, and bloat-free alternative to Gnome and Kde. 4.4has many new features over version 4.2 which is currently featured in the BLFS book, and it is well worth upgrading. If you already enjoy 4.2, you will love 4.4.
I had a trouble-free installation loosely following the existing directions in the book, and adapting them according to Wilco's excellent suggestions here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2007-March/062206.html Three things I had to do that weren't readily obvious in the documentation: 1) vte 0.12.2 complained loudly (aka. make error) about not having python until explicitly passing --disable-python to configure. 2) vte also complained about not being able to find a freetype header file. The code was looking in /usr/include/freetype, but my freetype installation has put its header files into /usr/include/freetype2/freetype. I assume other applications will run into the same expectation so my solution was to simply make a symlink that everybody will be happy with: cd /usr/include && ln -sv freetype2/freetype freetype 3) D-BUS. If you haven't done this already, you need to do the following so that dbus will run correctly. I found this out after suffering repainting issues that made the desktop unusable. Running this fixed the problems: dbus-uuidgen --ensure Read 'man dbus-uuidgen' for details. Enjoy! czep
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