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/
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