Hello All, I recently got a little 166 laptop to play with and I thought I'd have a go at getting into X. As such I grabbed XFCE as a lightweight window manager. I was also looking at IceWM and FVWM. XFCE had the most amusing logo so it won ;) (Tho I may check out the others later)
So in the intrests of keeping it light I installed what appeared to be the minimum required by portage to get XFCE built. Much merging and configuring later I got XFCE working and started to read the docs. That's when things got odd..... I've done quite a bit of *nix work before but it's almost always been in bash... I've had little to do with X. GTK2 When reading the docs this line jumped out at me: "All XFce 4 modules depend on GTK2" I thought that stange as I don't have gtk2 installed. Anyone out there understand that? Are the two gtk libs close enough that XFCE can be fooled into thinking that gtk is gtk2? I'm also quite confused about the ebuild for gtk... both gtk1 and gtk2 are the same ebuild (x11-libs/gtk+) but the compile seperately..... are they slotted? While I'm on the subject if anyone has any pros/cons regarding gtk vs gtk2 I would love to hear them. I haven't done much with X and this is all a alien. Any good links to discussions on this topic would also be cool.... GNOME & KDE use flags Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too informative... things like 'adds support for gnome'. Now as I understand it XFCE is quite gnome like... should I then use the -gnome flag when compiling X apps to use in XFCE? Or is using that flag only going to be populating some directory only gnome uses? All advice and links most welcome ;) Many thanks.... Nick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
