On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:35:07 -0800 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you love gnome2 you'll be thrilled when you install the gentoo > 'mate' overlay. It's like coming home for the holidays and putting > on your old fuzzy slippers :) > > I had to work around two minor problems before the whole package would > build: > > 1) I had to remove the pulseaudio useflag for mate-setting-daemon: > > #grep mate /etc/portage/package.use > mate-base/mate-settings-daemon -pulseaudio > > 2) The mate package doesn't know about our multi-slot python thing, > so the configure script couldn't find <Python.h> > > This is an embarrassing hack, but you can remove it after installing > mate: > > #cd /usr/include > #ln -s python2.7 python [or python3.3 if that's what you use]. > > I'd suggest removing that symlink after mate is installed because > gentoo doesn't do python that way and might get confused in the > future.
I have switched from Gnome2 to Fxce4 without all that troublehacking in such a way that even my friend, who used to work as a system administrator, could not tell a difference when I showed him my previous Gnome2 and my current Xfce4 sessions. > I use startx, so I just put 'exec mate-session' in my .xinitrc, > and now I'm sooooo happy :) :) :) And, yes, I also use startx and .xinitrc to start my xfce4 session.
