XFce

[Felix Jodoin]

I made a sort of hack of blackbox, if anyone cares, called elf:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/envire-elf/
As for XFCE, I have succesfully build the tarballs and the cvs on ydl 
3.0.
-AliasN

On 1-Mar-04, at 5:38 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Mr. Hamilton:
>
> Greg Hamilton wrote:
>> I've been reading about a lightweight desktop environment called XFce 
>> (http://xfce.org). Has anybody here tried building it for YDL? Does
>> anybody have any experience with it?
>
> I have not played with XFce. However, I have had a reasonable amount 
> of experience with BlackBox, another "lightweight" window manager. I 
> am pretty happy with BlackBox (which may already be installed on your 
> Yellow Dog Linux box). There are a few oddities -- and no 
> documentation, neither in the environment nor on the Web -- but it is 
> quite likable.
>
> If you decide to experiment with BlackBox, here are a few hints:
>
> [1] right-click to start any and all applications, middle-click to 
> manage windows
>
> [2] if you "iconize" an application, in fact you hide the application 
> entirely, and can only visualize it using the middle-click window 
> manager ("icon" was a very poor choice of name for this hiding 
> feature)
>
> [3] several of the options in the applications (right-click) menu are 
> not active
>
> [4] there is a text file (I don't recall its location, as I am not at 
> my YDL box right now -- type "whereis blackbox," go to that directory, 
> and look for a file called "menu"; the file is *not* in your home 
> directory) that will allow you to edit the applications menu
>
> [5] if you add "nautilus --no-desktop" to the applications menu, it 
> makes a decent file browser
>
>> According to the web site it's supposed to be lightweight and fast 
>> which would be handy on a slow box.
>
> You might like BlackBox, too. Let us know how you like XFce.
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>
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