On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:08:26AM -0500, Victor Wren wrote: > >TL,DR: Any demand for/objections to me putting Xfce back into the > book? Andy > I'd love to see it in there, personally. It's nice to have alternatives > to Gnome/KDE, especially for people who are wanting a minimal GUI for a > server. I tried to get Metacity working following the BLFS directions, > with little success, but I was able to get fluxbox working with > instructions from another location, and by copying some of the setup > from RIPLinux. > > incidentally, I highly recommend Fluxbox as a lightweight WM with a lot > of potential, and it would be nice to see it included as an option in > BLFS. I wouldn't mind seeing Metacity dropped--since it's so wrapped up > in Gnome, by the time you've got all the dependencies satisfied, you're > well on the way to installing Gnome anyway, and the project seems to be > adrift since being cut loose from Gnome, but that might just be residual > bitterness that I was unable to get it to work. > --Victor Wren
You sound as if you are looking at a *very* old version of BLFS. Fluxbox-1.3.2 is in chapter 26, and I moved Metacity into gnome when I merged Wayne's work for gnome-3.2 : Metacity is the fallback wm for gnome-3 where hardware DRI is not available. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
