On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:27:10 -0500 cgrigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (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
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