On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:03:18AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 21/01/2016 05:57, Simon Wise a écrit : > >On 19/01/16 04:59, Steve Litt wrote: > >>On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:31:43 +1100 > >>Simon Wise<simonzw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>>But recently discovered that xfce4-terminal loses critical > >>>functionality without a session dbus running (it no longer connects > >>>to the cut buffer and clipboard ... which really destroys its > >>>functionality). I dropped it in favour of roxterminal which is very > >>>similar, based on the same engine I believe, but it does the cut > >>>buffer and clipboard etc directly, as it should. > >> > >>Hi Simon, > >> > >>Thanks to your recommendation, I just started using roxterm. What a > >>breath of fresh air! Tabbed. Multiple profiles mean all sorts of > >>different terminals for different needs. No unholy union to a "desktop > >>environment" other than the rox filemanager system. > > > >they are independent, I think ... though perhaps some D&D might be a > >bit cleaner between them??? they both just interact with X and allow > >extensive file-based configuration if you want to use it. Last time I > >tried both worked fine just in X alone, no other management. > > > > > >>I need several different types of terminal emulators for several > >>different types of jobs. From now on I'm using roxterm instead of > >>xfce4-terminal for all new construction. > > > >"profiles" can easily be invoked on CL if you want distinctive > >appearance to indicate different tasks. > > > > > >Simon > > I installed roxterm and rox-filer. Both are just nice behaving. > roxterm doesn't seem to differ in apearence, configurability or > behaviour, from xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal. > > rox-filer is nice looking, but it needs some configuration. Here > are the two waek points I noticed > > - there is absolutely no application defined by default for any > file type; you must define them all - this is a miss in the > packaging. > - there isn't a menu of possible applications for a given file > type. I like to be able to open an image with either a simple viewer > or with Gimp to edit it. >
So I tried installing it, and found that it recommended zeroinstall-injector. Anyone know what this is? It seems to be a "platform-independent package manager". What does this mean in relation to rox-filer. And how does it relate to apt and aptitude. Might it alleviate some of the above complaints? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
