[blfs-dev] Xfce
Hello Everyone, I notice that the Xfce page is still in the book source but is commented out. I've just spent a few hours installing it and it wasn't too hard to get it to a usable state. I don't think I'll be using it as my default desktop but I think I will keep installing it as an option. I could put in a few days work to rewrite the xfce page and bring it up to date. Is there any demand? It seems to be well maintained, it was easy to install, it didn't give me any problems. When first launched it looks awful and needs a bit of clicking about in the menus to set the icons, font preferences and theme and such like, but it works. One issue is that Terminal uses the Gtk+-2 version of Vte, vte-0.28.2 so I'll need to put that back into the book somewhere. It might be best to split it up into separate pages in an xfce folder and put the vte-0.28.2 page in there with them. At the moment the xfce page is in the window managers folder which isn't really appropriate, it's a lot more than a window manager. There's even a CD burning GUI, xfburn, which works pretty well TL,DR: Any demand for/objections to me putting Xfce back into the book? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] Xfce
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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] Xfce
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:08:22 +0100 Victor Wren vw...@ponyhome.com 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. Problem? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/fluxbox.html If you like Fluxbox, you might also like Openbox: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/openbox.html (I used Fluxbox for about 6 months before I discovered Openbox ;) Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] Xfce
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:32:56 +0100 Victor Wren vw...@ponyhome.com wrote: I notice in the directions, it mentions needing an image viewer for fbsetbg, but none of the utilities it lists (or doesn't list--I'm using feh, which is recommended) are part of the BLFS install, even as an outside Optional package. The first one listed, display, is part of ImageMagick: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/imagemagick.html Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] Xfce
Andrew Benton wrote: Hello Everyone, I notice that the Xfce page is still in the book source but is commented out. I've just spent a few hours installing it and it wasn't too hard to get it to a usable state. I don't think I'll be using it as my default desktop but I think I will keep installing it as an option. I could put in a few days work to rewrite the xfce page and bring it up to date. Is there any demand? It seems to be well maintained, it was easy to install, it didn't give me any problems. When first launched it looks awful and needs a bit of clicking about in the menus to set the icons, font preferences and theme and such like, but it works. One issue is that Terminal uses the Gtk+-2 version of Vte, vte-0.28.2 so I'll need to put that back into the book somewhere. It might be best to split it up into separate pages in an xfce folder and put the vte-0.28.2 page in there with them. At the moment the xfce page is in the window managers folder which isn't really appropriate, it's a lot more than a window manager. There's even a CD burning GUI, xfburn, which works pretty well TL,DR: Any demand for/objections to me putting Xfce back into the book? No objections as long as there is no namespace collisions in the different versions of vte or any other dependencies that may be needed. I would like to see lxde in the book at some point. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] About mc-4.8.3
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thanos Baloukas wrote: The default home dir for mc is no longer ~/.mc but ~/.config/mc and can be changed by --with-homedir= option and via MC_HOME variable The standard is for configuration files to be in ~/.config. audacious is there as well as Qt and gtk configs. I wrote that because the book mentions ~/.mc Thanos -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] About mc-4.8.3
Thanos Baloukas wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thanos Baloukas wrote: The default home dir for mc is no longer ~/.mc but ~/.config/mc and can be changed by --with-homedir= option and via MC_HOME variable The standard is for configuration files to be in ~/.config. audacious is there as well as Qt and gtk configs. I wrote that because the book mentions ~/.mc OK, I changes the references in the book to ~/.config/mc -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
