xfce4-session

[Myles Green]

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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:59:39 -0700
Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had no probelems with xfce4 (latest available that I am aware of)
> on gentoo, but suddenly (a few days ago) on my Slack system, whenever
> I restarted xfce4, the panel would die, leaving me with a disabled
> system. I finally tracked down the problem: I had to blow away the
> .config and .cache directories.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?
> 
> <rant>
> I've always liked xfce, but the latest version has given up on a
> simple .xfce4 directory, which made sense, for controlling things. Now
> you have to search for .config and .cache which is super intuitive
> (not).
> </rant>

Hi Collins,
They made the switch so as to follow the freedesktop spec's, as that's
the direction all WM/DE's will be taking in the very near future. At
first, it is confusing, but now that you (we) know, well, it's not ;-)

Directories of importance under the freedesktop scheme, off the top
of my head, are:

~/.config ; ~/.cache ; ~/.fonts ; ~/.sounds ; ~/.themes and probably a
few more that I've forgotten about (~/.pixmaps & ~/.wallpaper ??).

Anyway, HTH
Myles

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus dot net> Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Dev. Branch 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
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