XFCE

[James Linder]

> On 6 Jan 2016, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> 
>>>> 
>>>> OS X 10.11.2, Xcode 7.2.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone managed to install xfce ? For me, the installation fails at the package xfconf ...
>> 
>> The old ports for Xfce 4.6 and the (unreleased) Xfce 4.8 hadn't been touched in years.
>> After PureDarwin, there just wasn't any motivation. Easier to just run FreeBSD instead ?
>> 
>> Anyway, now the ports *have* been updated to the latest version Xfce 4.12 so "should" work.
>> This includes the desktop, with Thunar and Terminal. See screenshot from XQuartz on Mavericks:
>> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for the upgrade ! I was very happy with KDE 3.5 with X11 on OS X Lion and I am trying to have something similar on OS El Capitan ... However the installation of Xfce still fails. More precisely it fails with exo. I get the following :
> info:configure checking for libxfce4ui-1 >= 4.10.0... not found
> :info:configure *** The required package libxfce4ui-1 was not found on your syst
> em.
> :info:configure *** Please install libxfce4ui-1 (atleast version 4.10.0) or adju

It being rather silly to try installing a port that fails to install, I’m waiting, but I will try snd test as soon as it is reported to work.
James