Thanks for all your work!
Which deps did you decide to remove?
Thanks, again.

I've bundled up my txz's into some tarballs, for ease of downloading.

32-bit:
http://porteus-xfce.googlecode.com/f...bit-txz.tar.gz

64-bit:
http://porteus-xfce.googlecode.com/f...bit-txz.tar.gz

These tarballs will include several packages that are not needed. I would especially not recommend anyone installing the 'zzz-xfce-customizations' package, this contains my custom changes to xfce and some Porteus-specific stuff, but folks might be interested in seeing what I've done and selectively copying out of that package...

cwizardone, I dropped GConf, ORBit, libgnomekeyring, and gnome-keyring from both arch's, but have added them back in for 64-bit due to upstream changes in Porteus (I threw them into the 32-bit tarball anyway, in case someone needs them, but the packages aren't compiled against them). I also dropped glade3 and media-player-info from my core packages (but stuck media-player-info back into my tarballs, again in case someone needs it).

EDIT: forgot to mention, I also dropped gstreamer (because I hate it), which means I've also dropped xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed. I manage volume on my laptop with keybindings and wrote a gtkdialog script to display the current volume when I press the volume/mute keys.

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I am interest for your work.Could you share your Slackbuild?
thanks

My slackbuild is a modified version of what rworkman published for 4.8. I've put it up here: http://porteus-xfce.googlecode.com/files/xfce.tar.gz

You'll need to download the fat tarball for xfce 4.10 and extract it into a directory 'src' in the directory where the slackbuild is. You'll probably need libxfce4gui as well, and anything else that isn't commented out of the slackbuild.

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Is there any possibility of XFCE 4.10 gets to slackware current?

Overall Xfce 4.10 has been running well.
This last weekend I re-partitioned and reformatted the hard drive and did a fresh install of Slackware64 13.37, brought it "current" and added the "True Multilib" files.
I then removed all traces of Xfce 4.6.2, and installed the Xfce 4.10 package that Ralvex was kind enough to provide but did not install any of the dependencies for Xfce 4.8. As a few of those are now required for KDE, let's say I didn't install any of those not required by KDE.
Xfce 4.10 ran fine all day without them. No problems.
However it didn't take long to get tired of wicd and to be able to run NetworkManager in Xfce I went ahead and installed the 4.8 deps.
As I said, overall, all is well, but I was doing some graphics work this afternoon and noticed it started having some of the same video problems I saw in 4.8, but not in 4.6.2 or KDE.
I had a browser open in one window and Gwenview in another and when I would move back and forth between the two it would take several seconds for each window to correctly display. I finally switched to KDE to finish the job.
Other than that, it has been great. Much prefer the appearance of Xfce over KDE. That glassy look of KDE is really hard on the eyes and it is refreshing to bring up Xfce and see a desktop that is clear and sharp.

Update: I was just using Thunderbird and when I went to move the address book window it left traces of itself for several seconds. By "traces" I mean it left an image of multiple layers of the box one on top of the other.

May need some links:
ln -s /usr/lib/libxcb-util.la /usr/lib/libxcb-aux.la
ln -s /usr/lib/libxcb-util.la /usr/lib/libxcb-event.la
ln -s /usr/lib/libxcb-util.la /usr/lib/libxcb-atom.la

cd /usr/lib/

ln -s libxcb-util.so libxcb-aux.so
ln -s libxcb-util.so libxcb-atom.so
ln -s libxcb-util.so libxcb-event.so
ln -s libxcb-util.so.0 libxcb-aux.so.0
ln -s libxcb-util.so.0 libxcb-atom.so.0
ln -s libxcb-util.so.0 libxcb-event.so.0
ln -s libxcb-util.so.0 libxcb-aux.so.1
ln -s libxcb-util.so.0 libxcb-atom.so.1
ln -s libxcb-util.so.0 libxcb-event.so.1

Some standard perl modules are required for bindings.

The libxfcegui line has to be removed.
Also what's not listed in sources.

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I already had with "xcompmgr" in openbox session.The Xfce's Composite manager is activate?

No, but thanks for the suggestion.

@Linux.tar.gz, thanks for the links.

Hello Ahau!
Are all those txzs rc2 ready? I'd like to convert them to xzms and test them using rc-2

Hey, justwantin!

Yes, these are Porteus 1.2 RC2 ready, they are the packages I used to build the modules. Most of them are already included in the Porteus release. Let me know if you run into any problems.

Thanks to Ralvex's suggestion, his Xfce 4.10 package has been running very well.
Looks like the Xfce developers got it right this time.


Now if it had a Xfce specific menu editor it would be near perfect.

I would hope 4.10 does make it into Slackware. It's really a clean cut and polished desktop environment.

As far as Mousepad goes, couldn't we use Leafpad instead?

I know Xfce has started using more Gnome dependencies as of late and additions of packages have pushed Slackware into the Dual-Layer DVD size status, but it was bound to happen eventually. Besides unless the project exceeds the DL-DVD size limit, nobody shouldn't worry too much about the project getting too big and not remaining as a Minimalist distribution.

Personally, I prefer Mousepad as Leafpad doesn't have a "Open Recent" option off of the file menu.

As KDE now uses four or five of the same dependencies required by Xfce 4.8, you can run Xfce 4.10 without
the rest of the gnome dependencies required by Xfce 4.8. However, if you want to use NetworkManager you will
have to install those same gnome dependencies. Perhaps someone can figure out how to run NetworkManager in Xfce without "the gnome" a la what Alien Bob was kind enough to do with KDE?