XFCE, Gnome

[David Evans]

On 1/2/16 6:25 AM, Pierre Henri CHAUDOUARD wrote:
> Hi,
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> OS X 10.11.2, Xcode 7.2.
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> Has anyone managed to install xfce ? For me, the installation fails at the package xfconf ...
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> I have installed gnome. However I am unable to launch a gnome-session. What are the 'right' configuration files ?

There have been a lot of changes with gnome-session and the gnome desktop evironment in general and the old method of
launching a gnome session on OS X doesn't work anymore.  This is largely to do with gnome-shell requiring X11
compositing features that are not likely to be implemented in the Apple X11 server any time soom.

There's been some renewed work upstream on a gnome-flashback (previously known as gnome-fallback) session that works
around this but it's definitely a work in progress. If you'll file a ticket against gnome-session, I'll up the priority
on this issue and provide some status on the current situation and progress as it occurs.

> Thanks for your help!
> 
> P-H
> 

Thanks for your interest, P-H!

Dave