Re: Xfce with FC2

[Chris McCutcheon <reddakota metrocast net>]

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