Compiling the sources

          IMPORTANT : YOU NEED TO HAVE A ROOT ACCESS TO INSTALL XFCE PROPERLY.
           
          1) Installing from a tar archive

          Once you've retrieved the archive, ie a file that sounds like xfce-2.0.?.tar.gz,

          Untar the source file :
           

            $ tar xvzf XFCE-2.0.?.tar.gz; cd XFCE-2.0.?
             
          (Of course, replace the question tag by the release version)
           
          2) Edit Imakefile to suit your system (if needed)
           
          This point could be optional.. If you are new to Unix, first try without editing the Imakefile
           
            $ vi Imakefile
           
          3) Create Makefile
           
            $ xmkmf
           
          If you don't have Imake installed, then you can try with the one shipped in the package or get the makefile that someone else used for your platform, or even better, get Imake from ftp.x.org !
           
          4) Create other Makefiles
           
            $ make Makefiles
           
          5) Compile and install

          To compile and install XFCE, just type
           

            $ make install
           
          This would install XFCE, XFwm and XFbd so it can be run from the command line.

          6) Choose your default language

          From within XFce's source directory, type the one of the following lines :
           

            $ cd xfce
          then
            $ make english
          or
            $ make francais
          or
            $ make italiano
          or
            $ make deutsch
          or
            $ make espanol