On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 12/20/2002 8:53 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: > <snip> > > >> Is there a SxS for installing XFCE from source? <time passes> There > >> seems to be one, but it's somewhat dated, > >> http://www.linux-sxs.org/wmxf.html. Perhaps one of you XFCE lovers > >> have notes that could serve as a SxS? > > > > > > Quite honestly there's no need for one: rpm --rebuild > > xfce-3.8.18.src.rpm > > > > Well, on RH8, that's be > rpmbuild --rebuild <yada yada>
Yea, yea, i forgot that Redhat reinvented the wheel again. Sorry. > > After you install the resulting binary RPM, run xfce_setup to make it > > the default window manager for each user, and xfce_upgrade if you've > > run a previous version of XFCE on the box before. That's it, you're > > done. > > Sounds like a plan. But I imagine I gotta do something that it'll be a session >choice for RH8's gdm, or is that what xfce_setup is suposed to do? > Perhaps I'll ask on #redhat if anyone is running XFCE with RH8... xfce_setup makes it the default in gdm for each user who runs xfce_setup. BTW, there is a very active XFCE mailing list (which several of this list's members are on, including me). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
