[ILUG] window manager FEEDBACK

[Robert Sweetnam]

On 4/6/06, Declan Moriarty <declan.moriarty at iol.ie> wrote:
> Some feedback:
>
> xfce-4.2.3.2 is a bitch to compile. it came in as a tar.bz2, which
> dumped a pile of tar.gz files AND NO DOCS in a src directory. I
> started in and one crapped out looking for another. So I installed
> that. It refused to believe me :-((. rm -rf is for a mess like
> that. It thinks it's xorg-7.0. I think it's a mess. Maybe I got a
> strange source version, or maybe there's something in the water in
> those parts. That's one to take in rpm form only. A pity.
>

Interesting,
I compiled Xfce last week and had no problems on Dapper Drake AMD64.
The documentation provided here:

http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en

is pretty good and tells you the order to build each component in.
Also helpfully lets you know what dependencies it requires.

Although if you dont have a window manager installed already i can
imagine it would be a bit of a pain reading those instructions through
a text based browser.

Regards
Robert