Re: Window managers

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Following the advice of KLUG gurus, I've tried to install xfce to no avail
> so far.  Let me bore you with my attempts:
> 1. I found a version of xfce on Bruce Smith's own BSware6.1 as an rpm and
> installed it.  Meanwhile I had been looking at the xfce site and found
> that there was a version released in Dec., after I had gotten my BSware6.1
> cdrom, so I downloaded the rpm and updated the xfce. I set the
> environmental variables LANG to "en" and XFCE_DATA to /usr/share.
> I ran xfce_setup.  I ran xfce which would do nothing without X11 being up
> and when I ran xfce in the default window manager, now GNOME rather than
> kde which was my former default, I get some xfce icons on the desktop but
> they were not functional.

First, XFCE is a window manager and a desktop both.  
Do NOT run it on top of GNOME, KDE, FVWM or any other window manager.

There are a lot of different ways to do this.  Here's one:

1)  Install the XFCE RPM.

2)  Create a file named ".xsession" (no quotes) in your home 
    directory containing the following single line:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xfwm

3)  chmod +x ~/.xsession

4)  Log off, and long back on with "Default" selected as the 
    windows manager on your GDM/KDM/XDM GUI login screen.

5)  Enjoy XFCE!   :{)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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