Xfce is a really cool Desktop environment for Linux. Its really light on resources compared to Gnome and Kde, and just as pretty.

Installation

I tried doing an rpm install. I guess a tool like apt would’ve made it a lot easier. After downloading 23 rpms, I realized that I was missing a few files. They turned out to be headers with the .hdr extension. I found these files in the header directory, but had *no* idea what to do with them.

But then I had also started a parallel download of the source files. And instead of going through help forums, I opted to do a source compile. This is my compiling order:

1. libxfce4util
2. libxfcegui4
3. libxfce4mcs
4. xfce-mcs-manager
5. dbh
6. xfce4-panel
7. gtk-xfce-engine
8. xfce4-systray
9. xfdesktop
10. xfce-mcs-plugins
11. xfce4-themes
12. xfce4-iconbox
13. xfce4-mixer
14. xfce4-toys
15. xfce4-trigger-launcher
16. xffm
17. xffm-icons
18. xfprint
19. xfwm4
20. xfwm4-themes

Note

ldconfig: To add the path /usr/local/lib to ldconfig, append it to /etc/ld.co.conf and then run ldconfig. (July 03, 2004)