Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-29 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:02:19 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: might be worth opening up the software installer on MCC and just searching for anything with xfce4 in the name... Just don't install the 'xfce4-drowning-in-lava' package. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:02:19 +0100 Margot wrote: I seem to remember that the main bit came from Charles Edwards' source, with some additional bits from either plf or contrib...might be worth opening up the software installer on MCC and just searching for anything with xfce4 in the name...

[newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Also the settings icon produces no activity. Trying to open settings from the command line with usr/bin/xfce-setting-show gets me No such

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Margot
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it not working for

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread John Drouhard
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I had the same problem - it seems to try to call up a type of terminal I didn't have installed! Solution was to right-click

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Margot
Graham Watkins wrote: Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Marv Boyes
Graham Watkins wrote: Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Not sure about the other configuration troubles you mention, Graham, but one solution to the menu problem would be to run