On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 02:09:35PM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > The oldest desktop in the current book seems to be lxde. That has > > all built fine for me, and using startlxde it is mostly working > > adequately. But it seems to only have one desktop/workspace, which > > is somewhat restrictive even for my testing. Maybe I'm missing a > > secret "do this to change desktop" command ? Google suggests that > > obconf is needed : I have installed lxappearance-obconf, which is a > > plugin for lxappearance, but I can't see any way of changing > > anything re openbox in lxappearance. Any ideas, please ? > > > > ĸen > > Looks like obconf (http://openbox.org/dist/obconf/obconf-2.0.4.tar.gz) is > needed, and the lxappearance-obconf plugin is not enough (not sure why). > > Another way is to middle-click on the desktop, then you can add/remove > desktops. But it seems those changes are not kept after logout. > Thanks - that was the secret command I was missing ;) I've got two desktops, which is adequate for testing, and now that I've opened something on the second desktop I've got simulations of both in the panel and I can click on those (perhaps I could have clicked on the blank space i f I'd known where to click).
> Last, you can edit .config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml, and change <number> to > whatever you need (under <desktops>). > > Regards, > Pierre Cheers. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
