Hot answers tagged xfce
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I see three ways to do it:
1. Changing the default runlevel
You can set it at the beginnign of /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf replace 2 by 3 and reboot.
You can enable the graphical interface with telinit 2.(More about runlevels)
2. Do not launch the graphical interface service on boot
update-rc.d -f xdm remove
Quick and easy. You can re-enable the graphical ...
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Ok, let's try to make it short and not get into an (ugly) troll.
GNOME is the most common environment currently (let it be known: it's not mine ;)). It uses the Gtk graphical set (for Gimp ToolKit, since it was created for Gimp initially). The main idea behind GNOME is close to the idea behind UNIX systems generally: one program = one function. Each program ...
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open the console and enter
ps --sort start_time x
this should give you a list of active processes, sorted by starting time, with the most recent process at the bottom. For example, I've just started Firefox and got this:
19713 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/firefox
19718 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh ...
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acpi is just a small program that displays basic ACPI information.
acpid is a daemon that handles ACPI events - mostly power button, lid, battery and related stuff. For example, if the power button was pressed, acpid runs shutdown. When AC power is connected, acpid can run the apropriate laptop-mode-tools command. If you use systemd, then it replaces most ...
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In my personal experience, there is just more eye candy available for Gnome. If you don't care about that sort of thing you aren't really missing out on much. XFCE is a bit better on resources though, and I'm a big fan of the right-click (context) menu navigation for apps and such.
example:
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If you have root access, you can always edit the startxfce4 script. According to the documentation:
startxfce4
The startxfce4 is a convenient script to start an Xfce 4 session from
the console. It will give you a
session with a taskbar and a panel and
with the desktop manager and window
manager running.
All programs, or symbolic links ...
4
Try editing your .fonts.conf file under your home directory (~/.fonts.conf).
This works well for me:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
...
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Linux Mint is built off of Ubuntu. If the problem is specific to the XFCE Desktop Environment (Things are displayed incorrectly), state that. If it is with internals (Network card isn't detected for example), specify Ubuntu as they are pretty much identical, and there is far more support available for Ubuntu so it will make things easier for you. You will ...
4
I feel your pain. 11.04 did have an easily accessible auto login setting. 11.10 took that away. To set autologin now you must edit lightdm.conf. In terminal at the user prompt type...
~$ sudo leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Add the following line to the end and save...
autologin-user=YourDesiredAutoLoginUserName
To remove password on resume, ...
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The vncserver package included with Ubuntu can be used to create a remote desktop at any size you want. For instance, to create one at your specified size, you'd run:
vncserver -geometry 1280x9000
I don't use XFCE, but I just tested KDE with vncserver at that resolution and it worked fine.
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I made mine transparent in gnome-terminal (and I'm guessing this will work for xfce-4 too)
I'm using Molokai theme (the 256 colour version).
I just had to change one line.
(original):
hi Normal ctermfg=252 ctermbg=233
(my version, with transparent background):
hi Normal ctermfg=252 ctermbg=none
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I don't have the answer, but here is how I would approach the problem.
The first thing to try would be to start gvim from a shell like this:
gvim -u NONE
That should show you the menu bar and the tool bar. If you don't see both of those, perhaps your gvim was built without support for them, but that's doubtful. Execute
:version
and look for any ...
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This page recommends adding blank accellator shortcuts to ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc'. I run XFCE 4.8 and could not find this file myself. However, in my terminal preferences (under Edit), there is a shortcut tab. Help = F1 is the last shortcut in the list. My terminal emulator version is 0.4.8. Hopefully one of these will be applicable to you.
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This is because LXDM is bugged in 12.04 and 11.10. You can find more information on the bug and the status of the fix on Launchpad. You would have encountered this bug if you use XFCE or xubuntu-desktop as packaged by Ubuntu and you try to use LXDM to launch it. Or, more probably if you installed Lubuntu and then tried to migrated over to Xubuntu. ...
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If your question really is "I want an application launcher", then there are plenty to choose from. It sounds like this is the easiest way to solve your actual problem. I use gmrun which is very light-weight and has completion. Wikipedia keeps a bigger list of such applications. Bind a keyboard shortcut to one of these, and then you can simply issue this ...
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This is a known issue with the linux kernel it's self that has been known for ages, no one was tackled the issue yet.
there is currently no fix or known work-around, aside from using Windows which increases in speed and then normalizes. I find this bug to be a very high-priority issue, but the programmers do not feel the same way. It is this bug alone that ...
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People on this question say that the Intel HD 3000 card should work out of the box on Ubuntu 11.10, no tweaking needed. This appears to be a relatively recent occurrence.
I think this means it should also work out of the box on Debian, as long as the kernel is >= 2.6.39. As of last September this required a backport for Squeeze. So Wheezy, which comes with ...
3
The environment variables for controlling proxy behaviour are as follows: http_proxy, ftp_proxy, https_proxy, all_proxy and no_proxy. Unfortunately, some applications require these in upper case, other applications need these variables in lower case, that just the way it is.
The format for declaring a proxy exclusion list is simply a comma separated list, ...
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The three main GUIs for Ubuntu are Gnome, KDE, Xfce. These projects all try to follow the Free Desktop standards at freedesktop.org . Xfce appears to follow the Desktop Entry standard, which defines how menu items are handled, among other things.
The following instructions should work in Gnome, KDE and Xfce.
The menu items (Also called 'Launchers', or ...
3
I might not be the right person to answer this, since I prefer Openbox partly because it doesn't set up panels and whatnot, but the section on xfce here seems like it might help you out.
The idea is that you configure your awesome session through that text file, and then link it to your "Xsession"
ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.Xsession
and then "select Xsession in ...
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I'm not entirely sure what has happened, but this has started working. I'm writing up some notes on it in case anyone else runs across it and this helps. I've also gotten confirmation from another that xterm positions are restored under Ubuntu 10.10.
Some details: I'm running XFCE 4.6 as provided by Ubuntu 10.10. XFCE version 4.6 includes a much improved ...
3
I think this is what you're looking for:
Setup of SSH agent in Xubuntu 11.10 to get password-less authentication with use of public key | Hnygard.no
If you have not already done so, set up your private and public key (See Githubs description about SSH key half way through Set Up Git). It is important that you add a passphrase to your private key.
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install Compiz, go to your System menu > CompizConfig Settings Manager > right at the end of the window under Window Management Section click on Snapping Windows > Choose the key bindings and behaviour and then click Enable Snapping Windows from the left side of the window and you are done :)
To install both "compiz" and its external ...
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I do like Xfce a lot. Even on newer machines, it just feels more... snappy. (But this could just be conformation bias, I'm not sure.)
The biggest problem with it is that it doesn't have enough native apps to go with it. So I end up using a lot of GNOME or KDE apps. So right now, I'm using Xfwm on KDE 4. It is definitely faster than using KWin (especially ...
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All the information about the geometry of the Xterm windows is, unsurprisingly, accessible through the X11 command-line utilities: you can run xprop on either the window ids of the processes or on their names. The output is not of a form you can use to launch the xterms when you restart X11, but I've used programs based on parsing this information to ...
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Yes, it should be easy to install another window manager and take if for a spin. You don't even have to remove your current one, in fact it's highly recommended that you leave it in place.
Open up your distributions package manager and install the XFCE packages. Then logout and use the menus on the login screen to select a different window manager during ...
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Using XFCE 4.10 on ArchLinux
I've tried dconf too, but it didn't work for me.
Using Linux Mint 13 XCFE
I was able to configure the proxy using 'gnone-control-center network'
apt-get install gnome-control-center
don't forget to reset xfce as your session manager after installing gnome-control-center package:
update-alternatives --config ...
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The signal sent is org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.MediaPlayerKeyPressed on /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys, with two arguments – the target program's name, which the program itself registers, and the key pressed ("Play", "Stop", "Next", "Previous").
signal sender=:1.3 -> dest=(null destination) serial=3047
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In the Terminal Preferences dialog, the Appearance tab has a "Transparent background" option to make the window transparent. If you found this option and set it appropriately, I can think of two reasons that it might not be working for you:
1) You might be using gvim instead of console vim within the terminal. If Vim opens up a new window, then you're using ...
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This isn't about XFCE or your terminal; it's about your shell.
I'm guessing your login shell is /bin/bash. Bash reads several files on startup, depending on whether it's interactive, whether it's a login shell, and probably some other things. See the bash manual for the gory details.
For starters, check .bash_profile and .bashrc in your home directory.
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