KDE not displaying panel; erratic

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:41:49 PDT 2004


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>

> 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...

Thanks, 
Tim




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