Saturday, April 16, 2005

Having recently become a part-time Mac OS X user, my personal eye-candy needs are now satisfied elsewhere and it's time for a more memory-friendly desktop environment. XFce is a nice, lightweight desktop environment which I've uses successfully in low-memory environments before, and it now supports all the features I need in a desktop environment (multiple desktops, ALT-TAB window switching, and expansion of previously entered application names in the application launcher window).

apt4rpm binaries are available (Ilkka Ollakka; many thanks). Add suser-ollakka to sources.list.

Unfortunately there seems to be no meta-package which downloads all required XFce4 packages; the only way to get everything needed is to specify the packages individually:

apt install \
gtk-xfce-engine \
libxfce4mcs \
libxfce4util \
libxfcegui4 \
xfcalendar \
xfce-mcs-manager \
xfce-mcs-plugins \
xfce-utils \
xfce4-appfinder \
xfce4-icon-theme \
xfce4-iconbox \
xfce4-mixer \
xfce4-panel \
xfce4-session-engines \
xfce4-systray \
xfce4-toys \
xfce4-trigger-launcher \
xfdesktop \
xffm \
xfprint \
xfwm4-themes

Not all of these are packages are mandatory.

To start XFce, use the supplied script /usr/bin/startxfce4.

"Normal" rpm packages provided by Bernhard Walle are available at http://turing.fh-landshut.de/~bwalle/xfce/.

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