key bindings to start applications

[Dmitry DELTA Malykhanov]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> This works, but you wouldn't know it from the example.
> >> Key e A CS emacs -fn 10x20 .
>
> He he.. I accidently found something that worked when it shouldn't.
>
> Don't know if I should consider that a weakness in xfce or a sign or
> robustness. ...

That's closer to weakness. :(

> > That may have something to do with session management. xfwm never got a
> > chance to cleanup things if someone using Ctrl-ALT-BS. Plus I'm not sure
> > how all components are plying together when managing x resources: you can
> > use your .Xdefaults files to specify x resources, you can put them in
> > xfwmrc and xfce panel is modifing resources too. Also, xfpager is xfce
> > module, maybe xfce is starting it before processing the resources?
>
> That may explain it since it seemed to work twice, then started
> getting ignored, we'll see what happens with a clean restart, now I
> know how to invoke it.  Are there files in ~/ I should delete to get
> a clean start.  I have so much gnome crud in there, its hard to tell.
>
> Is `restart' already available on a menu somewhere?  If not, does
> anyone think it should be?

By default the Restart function is in the pop-up menu (left-click on the
root window), submenu "Quit XFwm". The one called "Restart" :) (another
one is "Quit").

And if you want to get a clean start, meaning "get rid of old session if
any", just log out (shutdown XFCE/xfwm) first, login from console (no X)
or using another window manager, and then delete (or move) file
$HOME/.xfce/xfwm-session. Also you may wish to check your $HOME/.Xdefaults
file (if any) to see maybe there are few lines for xfpager there too.

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