Open Source Desktop Environment: Xfce Desktop

http://www.xfce.org/∞

Xfce Desktop

xfce is a lightweight desktop environment

replace gnome with xfce

on centos oracle red hat rhel 4 & 5 you can replace gnome with xfce 4 by using yum

remove gnome*

# yum remove gnome*

install xfce from yum package

# yum groupinstall XFCE-4.2

install xfce (minimal)

# yum install xfdesktop xfce-utils xfce4-screenshooter-plugin xfce-mcs-plugins xfprint

then

$ startxfce4

instead of just

$ startx

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how to fix xinit & startx to start xfce by running startxfce4 !

remove GNOME default that wasn't removed by yum remove gnome* !

# mv /etc/sysconfig/desktop /etc/sysconfig/desktop.old

vi /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients

# now if we can reach here, either no desktop file was present,

# or the desktop requested is not installed.

if [ -z "$PREFERRED" ]; then

    GSESSION=gnome-session

    STARTKDE=startkde

    STARTXFCE=startxfce4            # ADD THIS LINE

    # by default, we run GNOME.

    if which $GSESSION >/dev/null 2>&1; then

        exec `which $GSESSION`

    fi

    # if GNOME isn't installed, try KDE.

    if which $STARTKDE >/dev/null 2>&1; then

        exec `which $STARTKDE`

    fi

    # if KDE isn't installed, try XFCE              # ADD THIS LINE

    if which $STARTXFCE >/dev/null 2>&1; then       # ADD THIS LINE

        exec `which $STARTXFCE`             # ADD THIS LINE

    fi                                  # ADD THIS LINE

fi

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