On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:27:10 -0500
cgrigs(a)earthlink.net (Carroll Grigsby) wrote:
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:19:28 am Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> snip
> Just install the Xfce live, or install any other spin/media and do:
> 'yum groupinstall xfce-desktop'
>
> Hope that clears things up.
>
> kevin
Thank you, Kevin. I wasn't aware of the groupinstall command. It
worked like a champ. I started with a Live (Gnome) CD install, did
the groupinstall, then loaded switchdesk and switchdesk-gui, and was
up and running within a half-hour.
Great. Glad to hear it.
A hint to anyone installing xfce: You will get an ugly message if
you
try to access the Window Manager or Window Manager Tweaks apps,
"These settings cannot work with your current window manager
(imsetting -xim)". The fix is to do yum remove imsettings -- it will
take a bunch of other files with it. (Not my idea -- it's from the
Fedora Project wiki as linked to from the Release Notes.)
yeah, it's a weird gtk2 bug. See the link in the common bugs page on
the wiki if you want to follow along. Hopefully we can come up with a
better workaround or fix soon.
-- cmg
kevin