XFCE is easy enough, if you know what packages to install. It was trial and error for me, but lucky for you I wrote down the significant packages that should ensure a successful install.
xfce4-session.ppc
Thunar.ppc
xfdesktop.ppc
Now I also installed several plugins, etc., but with the above three packages you should be able to launch the WM with little to no errors. Yum will grab all the necessary dependencies.
Errors/Issues received upon login:
pbbuttons does no end in .sh, ignoring - This was from .xsession-errors, and I merely appended .sh to the filename to correct it.
XFCE menu button was missing - Now this could have been because I didn't install everything before launching xfce, I'm not sure. I had to install xfdekstop and xfwm before it was even an option to add.
There was no DEFAULT xfce.desktop file to place in /usr/share/xsession to allow XFCE to be selectable via gdm, but the following will get it going for you.
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
TryExec=/usr/bin/xfce4-session
Name=Xfce 4.4
Comment=The Xfce Desktop Environment
If anybody has any questions or concerns with install xfce in ydl 6.0, just let me know.
btw - I guess I should mentions I'm using the repos listed on the previous page:
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Install Additional Repos for YDL 6
fedora-extras.repo
[fedora-extras]
name=Fedora Extras
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/ppc
gpgcheck=0
livna-stable.repo
[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/ppc
gpgcheck=0
dribble.repo
[dribble]
name=Dribble for Fedora 7 - ppc
baseurl=http://dribble.org.uk/repo/7/ppc
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
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