Folks might want to checkout the OpenSolaris project page: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/xfce/
and, maybe work with the folks there. :) Regards, --Robs On 07/22/09 13:44, William Yang wrote: > We have a site-compiled version of 4.4.2. Biggest complaint I had is that > we had to compile our own Glib/GTK (chose 2.6 since it's close to 2.4 that > ships with Solaris 10) in order to get it up though. Wish Sun would upgrade > Glib/GTK to 2.6 (GNOME is 2.6...). Otherwise it works alright (not sure > about xfce4-mixer; never tested the whole environment too extensively), but > causes an issue for Sun Ray @ Home users since it insists on opening the > audio recording device (probably to monitor the volume), which is a no-no > for home broadband connections (causes the session to go unresponsive). > > How is 4.6 working for you? Also, if you're root on the system, I'd advise > trying the crle tool instead of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > It is a nice desktop environment in general, though. Add me to the list of > interested users :) > > William > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:desktop-discuss- >> bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Peter Tribble >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:23 PM >> To: Desktop discuss >> Subject: [desktop-discuss] XFCE >> >> I've been playing with XFCE (on Solaris 10 - I find the S10 gnome build >> far more useable than the more recent versions, so I'm trying to find a >> way to get a desktop environment I can live with in order to be able to >> actually run OpenSolaris or SXCE on my desktop without getting so mad >> it drives me to distraction). >> >> Anyway, for reference, my notes on getting current XFCE running on Solaris >> 10 are here: >> >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/xfce-install.html >> >> which leads into my next question: anyone else running XFCE? Is >> there wider interest in working on XFCE to bring it up to a first class >> environment on (Open)Solaris? >> >> -- >> -Peter Tribble >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090722/270bca10/attachment.html>
