RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
>-Original Message- >From: Nick Fisher > >> FYI, XFCE4 has session management that is masked in portage, but works >> perfectly here... > >Session management? I'm not 100% what you mean in this context what >'session' is being managed in what way? Are we talking about the X >session? As

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Nick Fisher
>> >Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too >> >informative... things like 'adds support for gnome'. Now as I >> understand >> >it XFCE is quite gnome like... should I then use the -gnome flag when >> >compiling X apps to use in XFCE? Or is using that flag only going

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
>-Original Message- >From: Tom Wesley > >On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:43, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: >> >-Original Message- >> >From: Nick Fisher >> > >> >GNOME & KDE use flags >> >Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too >> >informative... th

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Nick Fisher
>> It's seems bloomin odd to me I'll say that. However, portage seems >> quite firm on the idea that I have gtk+-1.2. I can only find gtk+-1.2 >> docs and binarys... Having said that I'm kinda working in the dark >> here knowing so little about gtk+. >> Can you think of any good tests I could try t

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> It's seems bloomin odd to me I'll say that. However, portage seems > quite firm on the idea that I have gtk+-1.2. I can only find gtk+-1.2 > docs and binarys... Having said that I'm kinda working in the dark > here knowing so little about gtk+. > Can you think of any good tests I could try to con

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread YoYo Siska
well, as for -gtk2 USE flag this is what guide for USE flags says: gtk Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) gtk2 Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both. so -gtk2 doesn't switch gtk off :) there has been something about this in some Gentoo Newsletter, b

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Tom Wesley
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:43, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Nick Fisher > > > >GNOME & KDE use flags > >Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too > >informative... things like 'adds support for gnome'. Now as I understand

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
>-Original Message- >From: Nick Fisher > >GNOME & KDE use flags >Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too >informative... things like 'adds support for gnome'. Now as I understand >it XFCE is quite gnome like... should I then use the -gnome flag when >compilin

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On 12/16/03 Nick Fisher wrote: > >> GTK2 > >> When reading the docs this line jumped out at me: > >> "All XFce 4 modules depend on GTK2" > >> I thought that stange as I don't have gtk2 installed. Anyone out > >there> understand that? Are the two gtk libs close enough that XFCE > >can be> fooled i

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Nick Fisher
>> GTK2 >> When reading the docs this line jumped out at me: >> "All XFce 4 modules depend on GTK2" >> I thought that stange as I don't have gtk2 installed. Anyone out there >> understand that? Are the two gtk libs close enough that XFCE can be >> fooled into thinking that gtk is gtk2? > No, they h

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On 12/16/03 Nick Fisher wrote: > GTK2 > When reading the docs this line jumped out at me: > "All XFce 4 modules depend on GTK2" > I thought that stange as I don't have gtk2 installed. Anyone out there > understand that? Are the two gtk libs close enough that XFCE can be > fooled into thinking tha

[gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions

2003-12-16 Thread Nick Fisher
Hello All, I recently got a little 166 laptop to play with and I thought I'd have a go at getting into X. As such I grabbed XFCE as a lightweight window manager. I was also looking at IceWM and FVWM. XFCE had the most amusing logo so it won ;) (Tho I may check out the others later) So in the int