Impressive preview of Compiz/Fusion

Let me show this is amazing video of a Compiz/Fusion Linux desktop.

Source: TodOS

How to install XFCE4 on Debian

I installed using a 3.1 version (Sarge), but i upgraded to 4.0 Etch. Then, i needed to install a light window manager in my old computer (Athlon 1GHZ). XFCE is one of the most important and i have wanted to try it for a long time!.

Then, lets play . The first, you will need some packages to install it. You can obtain it using APT.

First, make sure you’ve the following:

• GCC (GNU C/C++ compiler, 4.2.0 is the last version at this time)
• bzip2 data compressor
• libgtk2.0-dev (GTK+ runtime libraries)
• libxpm-dev
• libsm-dev
• libice-dev
• pkg-config (It’s a tool to manage and compile libraries)

Before you install (or not!) this packages, download the last version of the XFCE installer from a mirror (Like SourceForge.net -> XFCE on SF). You can use “wget” to download to your hard drive. At the time of this writing, the last version is 4.4.1, and the installer file have this name -> xfce4-4.4.1-installer.run.

The final step its too easy. Simply, log with “root” or use “sudo” command, and type this:

./xfce4-4.4RC2-installer.run

Before this, the package will be uncompressed (Showing dots in the screen..), and will show a screen with a welcome message, like a typical assistant.

At this point, you only must follow the instructions and XFCE will be installed on your system .

I had some issues during the installation. One of them, shows something like this error.

(installer-gui:3721): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

To solve this, make sure your GTK+ runtime libraries, are > 2.0 version. Try this command “apt-get install-f libgtk2.0-dev”

I’d other error, which shows this message after much more “warnings” about fonts.

could not open default font ‘fixed‘

To solve this, type “apt-get install xfonts-base”.

Before this, you can start XFCE typing “startxfce4″.

Enjoy your new desktop !