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hoeller
15th July 2004, 05:12 PM
Hi,

I'd like to install XFCE on Fedora Core 2. I downloaded everything I needed with yum, but the guides and manuals I found on the Internet mention folders and files that do not exist on this release. Is there a guide which is specific to FC2? If not, can anybody tell me how they configured XFCE on FC2?

I think all the lovers of XFCE will appreciate, particularly until XFCE won't be selectable during the installation.

Thanks in advance.

H.
tchung
15th July 2004, 08:02 PM
Have you checked out our site?

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/diego_figueroa/xfce/

Thomas
hoeller
15th July 2004, 11:49 PM

That's the tutorial I was referring to. It's very well written, but the problem is that I don't have the folders that are mentioned in the article...

No etc/X11/dm/Sessions/ or /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ here... =(

Most of the exisiting *.desktop files are in etc/X11/starthere...
tchung
16th July 2004, 05:33 AM
In that case, I would suggest to contact the author of the article.

Thomas
Tuche
20th July 2004, 08:49 PM
Have you checked out our site?

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/diego_figueroa/xfce/

Thomas


i did everything and xfce didnt show up in the menu . . .
rurp
20th July 2004, 09:32 PM
Strange... I followed that tutorial and everyting worked as it should.
Tuche
20th July 2004, 09:55 PM
Strange... I followed that tutorial and everyting worked as it should.

hum

i ll do it again . . .

about the files creatin . . .

how do i do ?
what is the console command the create thoses files ?
rurp
20th July 2004, 09:59 PM
Use your favourite editor, i use nano. Then just type nanao the-file-you-want-to-create
edite the file, save amd exite.
Tuche
20th July 2004, 10:27 PM
thanks man, im trying it again . . .

anyway, how do i disable, humm dont know the name exactly . . .

but i would like to disable that login screen, i wanna to first log on in console, then if i wanna i startx . . .

can u gimme a hand ?
thanks
Tuche
21st July 2004, 05:01 AM
please ppl some1 help me

i did all steps again, and it doesnt wanna work . . .
rurp
21st July 2004, 05:58 AM
Are you shure everething is done the rigth way, installed all pakages?

To change default runlevel edit /etc/inittab see below...


# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:

/rurp
greensky
23rd July 2004, 09:24 AM
Does anyone know where I can get XFCE 4.0.6 RPM's for FC2?

Thanks!
micha
23rd July 2004, 12:31 PM
I'm looking for the xfprint-* packages, don't understand why they're no present...
greensky
23rd July 2004, 06:56 PM
The RH9 rpm's from the XFCE website will work in FC2. I was able to install all of them except for "dbh-1.0.18-1rh9.i386.rpm" which I had a newer version of. I deleted that RPM and was good to go.

-Cory
deuch
23rd July 2004, 08:18 PM
I's strange that you don't have this directory : etc/X11/dm/Sessions/ or /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/

To have this directories, you have to install gnome-session.

Do you already use a window manager ???

deuch
micha
24th July 2004, 04:18 AM
The RH9 rpm's from the XFCE website will work in FC2. I was able to install all of them except for "dbh-1.0.18-1rh9.i386.rpm" which I had a newer version of. I deleted that RPM and was good to go.I did that too, and that works great !
Thetargos
11th August 2004, 01:25 AM
Just one question? How do you make XFCE your default session with GDM?
Ned
11th August 2004, 01:48 AM
Did you folks know that all the XFCE RPM's are included on the FC2 disks? They're mostly on disk 4 although there isn't an option to install in Add/Remove package.

But you don't need to be using RH9 RPM's or be downloading them from anywhere :)

I installed them using the tutorial posted by tchung above.

Ned
Harryc
11th August 2004, 09:32 AM
Just one question? How do you make XFCE your default session with GDM?command 'switchdesk' as root, you can add a GUI using 'yum install switchdesk-gui'
greensky
17th August 2004, 04:29 PM
Did you folks know that all the XFCE RPM's are included on the FC2 disks? They're mostly on disk 4 although there isn't an option to install in Add/Remove package.

But you don't need to be using RH9 RPM's or be downloading them from anywhere

The version of XFCE on the cd isn't current. The cd has version 4.0.5 and the current release version is 4.0.6. The 4.0.6 update fixes a bug which had caused icons to not work in Gnome applications. I would recommend downloading the RPM's still.

-GS