Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-30 Thread Marv Boyes
Oops! I guess I forgot (or, perhaps more honestly, never really noticed) that I got that plugin from another source. At any rate, it's a must-have. ;) Sorry for the confusion. Marv -- Help in the research to fight devastating diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's--

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:40, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 18:08, Richard Urwin wrote: My best tip: load the command line applet and add it to the panel. You'll soon wonder how you survived without it. Do you mean the Gnome command line applet ? How can you do that ? I

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-28 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right-click on the Xfce4 panel, slide up to 'Add new item', and select 'Mini Command Line'. It'll put a little textbox in your panel for issuing commands. Thanks, Marv. Unfortunately the Mini Command Line selection that you mentioned does not seem to exist on my

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:15:37 -0500 Carl J. Bauman wrote: Thanks, Marv. Unfortunately the Mini Command Line selection that you mentioned does not seem to exist on my system. I'm now running Xfce 4.0.5 on Mandrake 10.0, installed from Charles Edward's rpm's at http://www.eslrahc.com. You

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 21 Apr 2004 5:20 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can run anything you like from within XFCE, the right-click menu should be the same as your KDE or Gnome menus Hi Joe, I didn't find this to be true in my case. I'm running Mandrake 10.0 and, since I was

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 07:08, Richard Urwin wrote: If you install from Charles' source the Mandrake menu appears as on entry in the right click menu. You'll have to ask him how he did it though if you want to stick with the compiled version. My best tip: load the command line applet and

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-20 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:39:32 -0500 mdk n00b disseminated the following: looks like if i still everything but devel i should be ok ? Easiest way to install XFCE4 is through Charles' site: http://www.eslrahc.com/ Just add his repository as a source, then: urpmi xfce4 how would i switch

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-20 Thread mdk n00b
installed. Easiest way to install XFCE4 is through Charles' site: http://www.eslrahc.com/ would i switch from Gnome to xfce4 and from xfce4 back to Gnome by only using startx ? 'startxfce4', but you can also start it with 'startx' if you have an ~/.xinitrc like so:

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-20 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:26:01 -0500 mdk n00b disseminated the following: ok i did that. it launched and i see the panel at the top. that was my only noticable difference than using startxfce4. That's easily configured in the settings for the panel. That's the main thing I like about XFCE, is

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:34:00 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Some examples here: http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de/ All those are avaiable as mdk rpms using the regular Contrib source i.e 10.0 Contrib. None of the sources have been updated so all the 10.0 contrib rpms are current and are not on my site.