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| Thread ID: 41036 | 2003-12-28 02:31:00 | LINUX - Window Managers | Ender (5019) | Press F1 |
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| 203663 | 2003-12-28 21:04:00 | > My PC takes about 30 seconds from star to finish... > OpenOffice takes about 5 seconds? Sounds like my nice shiny new XP computer. What sort of hardware do you have? With 150MHz and 64 MB RAM it takes around 4 minutes on a good day to start up and yeah, 8 or 9 minutes for Writer to open. Quite scary. I guess it takes more than 64MB RAM to start up, so its constantly writing and reading from the swap file on a decrepit slow Hard drive. |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 203664 | 2003-12-28 21:06:00 | >good to go in about 20 seconds It takes that long just to open a new <insert anything here> |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 203665 | 2003-12-28 21:09:00 | And much, much longer to do anything concerning compressed files. | Ender (5019) | ||
| 203666 | 2003-12-28 21:16:00 | Ok ok, enough of my war stories, I have decompressed the xfce4 tar.bz2 file I downloaded from sourceforge.net prdownloads.sourceforge.net and it has not one rpm which will conveniently install everything I need, but it has 25 rpms, all of which with the trademark Linux obscure file names. They seem to be rpms for each element of Xfce. So do I run each of them in any random order? Do I run a particular master rpm first? Do I download an rpm manging program? help! :( |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 203667 | 2003-12-28 21:47:00 | Open a command line as root and type: cd /location/to/untarred/rpms rpm -Uvh *.rpm That should do the trick Try looking into AbiWord, its a much smaller word editor and would run smoother on your older hardware. And yes, Ive got an AthlonXP 1700+ wtih 512MB RAM... :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 203668 | 2003-12-28 21:52:00 | No such file or directory. Am I supposed to substitute 'location' for something? I can use the notepad equivalent as a text editor, or vim :) |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 203669 | 2003-12-28 21:59:00 | Yes, the location where you un-tarred the files to! | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 203670 | 2003-12-28 22:08:00 | This looks like it might be the instructions, but im too much of a n00b to understand them, apparently. www.xfce.org Though it seems it might be installing from source. I don't have source, I have rpms. 25 of them. Hmmm further down it has: Build order: libxfce4util libxfcegui4 libxfce4mcs xfce-mcs-manager all other modules (you have to install xfce4 panel before compiling panel plugins). I have those names in the middle of long Linux names, they're rpms. Unless someone tells me not to veery soon, I'll go and try opening the rpms in that order. |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 203671 | 2003-12-28 22:12:00 | There's no folder named 'to' | Ender (5019) | ||
| 203672 | 2003-12-28 22:15:00 | ooor, do you mean go to the folder named rpms from in the decompressed and dearchived download, and the rest is just there to confuse me? | Ender (5019) | ||
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