Re: Battery applet for Thinkpad 240/XFCE4

From: Marc Schwartz (MSchwartz_at_mn.rr.com)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:58:14 GMT

john@starfleet.os2.dhs.org wrote:

> I have the header files, but apparently not the pkg-config entry that the
> configure script insists on looking for.

There is more information here:

http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en

Note that the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable needs to point to
certain .pc files in the source code tree.

The installers I referenced are likely to be easier as it does takes
some tweaking to get building from source correct.

> I picked up the XFCE-4.2rc2 sources, and I must say it's quite huge. I
> started using XFCE during the v1.x days when I was running linux on a 32MB
> machine, and kept using it up to v3, but never made the move to v4. XFCE
> has gotten quite a bit more complex since v3.

I do not have a frame of reference for comparison relative to earlier
versions, though I have seen comments on the Xfce lists from folks who,
like you, started using it a while back. No doubt it has evolved from
it's beginnings.

I started using 4.x when I got frustrated with some of the behavioral
changes in RH 9 with GNOME and Metacity (GNOME's WM). I made the shift
to Xfce after evaluating other options and have stayed with it since,
now running FC3.

Marc