Here's what happened to xfwm4

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon May 12 12:45:24 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM, John Summerfield
<debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> > John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> > > I installed it, but don't get to choose it when logging in.
> > > Here, I think, is why:
> > > [summer at potoroo ~]$ rpm -qi  xfwm4
> > > Name        : xfwm4                        Relocations: (not
> relocatable)
> > > Version     : 4.4.2                             Vendor: Fedora Project
> > > Release     : 3.fc9                         Build Date: Wed 30 Apr 2008
> 04:29:14 AM WST
> > > Install Date: Mon 12 May 2008 11:11:39 AM WST      Build Host:
> xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
> > > Group       : User Interface/Desktops       Source RPM:
> xfwm4-4.4.2-3.fc9.src.rpm
> > > Size        : 2655388                          License: GPLv2+
> > > Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 01 May 2008 01:44:19 AM WST, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> > > Packager    : Fedora Project
> > > URL         : http://www.xfce.org/
> > > Summary     : Next generation window manager for Xfce
> > > Description :
> > > xfwm4 is a window manager compatible with GNOME, GNOME2, KDE2, KDE3 and
> Xfce.
> > > [summer at potoroo ~]$ rpm -ql xfwm4 | grep xsessions
> > > [summer at potoroo ~]$
> > >
> > >
> > > I gather it should be tucking a .desktop file into /usr/share/xsessions/
> > >
> >
> > Install xfce-utils for the session file. You can find this by using
> >
>
>  I was wondering whether  xfce4-session is the correct package.
>
>
>
> > repoquery from yum-utils package.
> >
>
>  I've been using apt-cache.
>
>
>  Is there _one_ package I can install to get a reasonable XFCE desktop?
> There's a lot of xfce packages one _can_ install, many I probably don't need
> (xfce4-wavelan-plugin is probably useful on my laptop with a wavelan card
> plugged in, but not otherwise)

yum groupinstall XFCE




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