xfce4-session

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Myles Green took 51 lines to write:
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> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:59:39 -0700
> Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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>
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> 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 ;-)

See http://www.freedesktop.org/ for all the specs.

Kurt
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