[lug] Metacity lockups (and moving to XFce)

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Tue Aug 5 18:15:50 MDT 2008


On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:47:45 -0600
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org ("Michael J. Hammel") wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 12:09 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > yum groupinstall XFCE
> 
> That's useful.  Are there other groups I can search on?  How do you
> search for available groups?

yum grouplist

see 'man yum' for more info. ;) 
> 
> > You should then be able to choose it from the login screen as your
> > session.
> 
> Done.  :-)   I'm now running under XFce with the same set of panel
> apps I had under GNOME.  XFce (for those that don't know it, like I
> didn't today) now has a panel app that allows you to run GNOME panel
> apps under XFce's panel.  Nifty, since the GNOME Weather and System
> Monitor applets are better than XFce's.

Yep. You can run most anything system tray aware just fine. 

kevin
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