XFCE on FC2

hoeller · #1 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 · #2 15th July 2004, 08:02 PM

Have you checked out our site?

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

Thomas

hoeller · #3 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 · #4 16th July 2004, 05:33 AM

In that case, I would suggest to contact the author of the article.

Thomas

Tuche · #5 20th July 2004, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tchung

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 · #6 20th July 2004, 09:32 PM

Strange... I followed that tutorial and everyting worked as it should.

Tuche · #7 20th July 2004, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rurp

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 · #8 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 · #9 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 · #10 21st July 2004, 05:01 AM

please ppl some1 help me

i did all steps again, and it doesnt wanna work . . .

rurp · #11 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...

Quote:

# 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 · #12 23rd July 2004, 09:24 AM

Does anyone know where I can get XFCE 4.0.6 RPM's for FC2?

Thanks!

micha · #13 23rd July 2004, 12:31 PM

I'm looking for the xfprint-* packages, don't understand why they're no present...

greensky · #14 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 · #15 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