Xfce Desktop Environment

This software is included in BLFS and therefore no longer maintained here.

LFScript can find this software under the name xfce.

Sources

The build instructions on this page must be performed for every source package listed, and in the order presented by this list.

• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4util/4.8/libxfce4util-4.8.2.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfconf/4.8/xfconf-4.8.1.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4ui/4.8/libxfce4ui-4.8.1.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/garcon/0.1/garcon-0.1.9.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo/0.7/exo-0.7.0.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.8/xfce4-panel-4.8.6.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.3/Thunar-1.3.0.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.8/xfce4-settings-4.8.3.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-session/4.8/xfce4-session-4.8.3.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.8/xfdesktop-4.8.3.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwm4/4.8/xfwm4-4.8.3.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce-utils/4.8/xfce-utils-4.8.3.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.8/xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/gtk-xfce-engine/2.9/gtk-xfce-engine-2.9.0.tar.bz2
• http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar-vfs/1.2/thunar-vfs-1.2.0.tar.bz2

MD5 Checksums:

7cba103367659bbf20ed245a298fc6f8  exo-0.7.0.tar.bz2
a3ca1e54ad731c98f688900f6398fc20  garcon-0.1.9.tar.bz2
e2bc76ab5093ff8472e728e6d6ad5da2  gtk-xfce-engine-2.9.0.tar.bz2
30bd432dd0f19305e846a122d4c7c6fe  libxfce4ui-4.8.1.tar.bz2
3376a77637a4292a863027d595548ee2  libxfce4util-4.8.2.tar.bz2
ab6f728384c0d925b40afae2f41268f3  Thunar-1.3.0.tar.bz2
1fbc55af8ed98174f5c3c7f8daec10cc  thunar-vfs-1.2.0.tar.bz2
fb4797ef91b90d111b989e98c3e000e0  xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2
9d7bf0503d5867c4044cef04bb5845b1  xfce4-panel-4.8.6.tar.bz2
461cc38bbd37cab881adbdf943f9a402  xfce4-session-4.8.3.tar.bz2
4669298cc8a4abf0e5a410016b575030  xfce4-settings-4.8.3.tar.bz2
03b5fba5f63f4f1a31cc7d3728f3c87e  xfce-utils-4.8.3.tar.bz2
70b4185aa7eed8a85f015f16c5c86d36  xfconf-4.8.1.tar.bz2
617c667c469698e8c974e38412cb484c  xfdesktop-4.8.3.tar.bz2
66cb65797cea8a62563f69b833c7888b  xfwm4-4.8.3.tar.bz2

Dependencies

Required:

• dbus-glib
• libwnck
• perl-uri

Runtime dependencies:

• consolekit (allows a shutdown or reboot through the Xfce UI)
• hicolor-icon-theme (default icon theme)
• which (used by startxfce4)

Installation

./configure --prefix=/usr \
        --sysconfdir=/etc/xfce4 \
        --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 &&
make

As the root user:

make install

As the root user:

echo "exec startxfce4" > /etc/X11/app-defaults/xinitrc.d/Xfce.xinitrc