Re: Xfce with FC2

From: Chris McCutcheon (reddakota_at_metrocast.net)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Here's a link to a FC2 review. At the bottom of the page the author
    shows how he installed xfce. It worked for, but I start it from the
    text login. Hope it helps. http://www.linuxcompatible.org/article14-2.html

    -Chris McCutcheon-

    Aly Dharshi wrote:

    > Hi BT,
    >
    > I know its on the cdrom, I installed it, it didn't seem to work
    > for me at all, it had issues pertaining to something not complying
    > with Xorg's stuff, so what I had happening was there was no title bar
    > etc etc Some of the plugins I wanted weren't installing correctly et al.
    >
    > The easiest way to fix that without installing the FC2 rpms is to
    > just install/compile the SRPMS from XFCE.org and they work just fine
    > out of the box. I don't know if I am the only jackass who is having
    > this problem with the bundled XFCE but if I am I would like to know
    > what I am doing wrong.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Aly.
    >
    > bob@brong.com wrote:
    >
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I'd like to try XFCE, and although it says its distributed with FC2,
    >> I cant
    >> find it within the distro. It's not found with up2date or yum (I added
    >> livna, too). Any help would be appreciated. Does it come with FC2 or
    >> am I
    >> crazy?
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >> BT
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >

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