Scott Czepiel wrote: > I highly recommend Xfce 4.4 to anyone looking for a fast, > asethetically-pleasing, and bloat-free alternative to Gnome and Kde. > 4.4 has 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.
Thanks for your findings. Unfortunately, I was very busy with my scientific work until today in order to update xfce in the book. Maybe I will do the update on this week. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
