Being an XFce user for my main productivity work for several years and being a Linux Mandrake user/advocate/tester often presents unnessary hiccups... First of all the mindboggling hunt to actually find the package buried about as far down as a package can go without ceasing to exist....
Olivers fantastic WM is also usually slightly mangled in its default Mandrake packaging.. For instance in 8.2b switchin a user from the default KDE to XFce sees a "cannot create file" permission problem which can be rectified by 'xfce_setup' however the average user would not know this. The KDM login problems seem to have finally sorted themselves out for the most part, thankfully. Is there a reason you are not able to get latest rpm directly from xfce into the 8.2 cooker? There is an excellant xfce-3.8.14c-1 out right now... Also I've heard rumours, that though Oliver lives 800kms away in Toulouse he would be glad to discuss the problems over a bottle of Cabernet at the local bistro with a Mandrakesoft staff member if one was in the area !!:) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
