Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Colin, This sounds more like a problem with your system rather then with the interface. Like your CPU is already full and there just aren't enough cycles free to accomodate the current window or app that you're attempting to use. Mark "C. CLOSE" wrote: Hi All, Thanks to

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-20 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:56:43 + "C. CLOSE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Thanks to Benjamin for the tip on XFCE it's quick and clean but I snip Has anyone else seen this behaviour??? Can it be fixed?? Colin, Just a comment on Marks' reply about CPU cycles. I think he'd

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-19 Thread C. CLOSE
Hi All, Thanks to Benjamin for the tip on XFCE it's quick and clean but I have one small problem with it. I am not sure whether specific to my installation or whether anyone else is seeing it; I open the file manager and open say /usr/bin when I try and scroll the list of files

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Colin and friends: Best thing to do if you have any problems with XFTree, xfce's limited file manager, is to add a menu entry to the toolbar/panel for Konqueror. In the command line type: kdesu /usr/bin/konqueror If you just type /usr/bin/konqueror, you will only be able to use Konqueror

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-19 Thread Stephen Horton
Hi again Benjamin, Thanks for the tip about the extras for XFCE - I downloaded them and my desktop is looking very cool. Thanks again. Stephen -- Q===Q | Stephen Horton:-) | | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Website:

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Stephen: You are very welcome. And you are welcome to join my xfce-new mailing list. See my letter to the Mandrake lists. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-19 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:36:27PM -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS: If you are interested in trying out XFCE, please do NOT use the by now old version in LM7.2. Instead, download the latest RH xfce-3.7.2-1.i386.rpm. That's what I am using. I got

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-18 Thread Mark Weaver
Ben, Thanks for the heads up on this...up until reading your post I had never used this WM. It's quite nice and indeed light. And it's even part of the menu on the graphical login. I don't know how I missed all this time. Mark

RE: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-18 Thread Peter FREIMANN
Thanks for the heads up on this...up until reading your post I had never used this WM. It's quite nice and indeed light. And it's even part of the menu on the graphical login. I don't know how I missed all this time. Hi ! Yes - this is indeed a very promising and powerfull WM !! (this is

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-18 Thread Stephen Horton
Hi Benjamin and All, I've been using XFCE for about two months now and have just upgraded to the latest version. Excellent bit of kit - fast, small, stable and pretty. I think it is definitely worth a try. Regards, Stephen On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: We all

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-18 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Stephen: Welcome aboard! By the way, you can download a file of extra pallette textures for your Setup, Palette. Go to the http://www.xfce.org home page and look for the file somewhere at the bottom of the page. It is in tar.gz format. But very easy to install. Just copy it to

Re: [expert] XFCE -- the little engine that could!

2001-03-18 Thread Gary
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:35:12PM -0600 or thereabouts, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Stephen: Good call guys. This is really nice, am d/l it now... good find.. thanks Welcome aboard! By the way, you can download a file of extra pallette -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: