new user comments/ colormap bug?/ Mapping keys?

[Jay Pfaffman]

I started using xfce  last week & really like it.  KDE was getting a
bit big for my 200Mhz PPro with 128MB of RAM.  In spite of my whining,
I don't think I'll be going back to KDE any time soon.  Thanks very
much. 

I've got a few problems, one of which may be an actual bug; the other
two have to do with documentation problems or aesthetics.  I've tried
to RTFM and still can't solve them.  I'm a xfce newbie but have been
running Linux on my desktop since about 1994.

SURELY A BUG:  I have my color map like I want it.  After a while,
however, new xterms open with a white background and black text rather
the black background that I want (I've been able to change the text
color from stark white, but I'm living with that for now).  If I
change the GTK theme engine and apply (I've changed from xfce to GTK
and back again, changing either way seemed to fix the problem.  When
it's "broken" the color maps in the panel's setup app all come up
gray. 

BUG or RTFM/documentation: I've tried adding customizations to both
~/.xfce/xfwmrc and ~/.xfwmrc, but neither seems to do anything.  It
seems that some of those things get set, but when the panel cranks up,
it un-does them.  I've tried re-mapping a few keys, for example, but
nothing seems to change.

RTFM/documentation: I can't tell what the hell the eight color panels
are in Setup app.  I have tooltips turned on, but they never come up
here (or anywhere else).  I've figured out half of them by trial and
error.  I remain confused.

AESTHETIC: I'd like to see a list of *all* of the apps when I ALT-TAB,
not just the one that I'd be changing to.  It's very helpful to see
the whole list of open windows & then know that I need to hit N more
tabs to get to the window that I want.  If alt-tab gave me the window
that comes up when I mouse-3 on the desktop, I'd be happy.  Similarly,
I'd like to be able to control tab to other desktops and alt-tab to
list only apps on the current desktop.

AESTHETIC: I'd like mouse-2 and mouse-3 on the maximize window
decoration to maximize horizonally and vertially.  I don't like
pulling down a menu (worse I confuse horizontal and vertical about 25%
of the time, but I doubt you could fix that).  Perhaps I could fix
this if I could re-map keys.

Thanks for any clues.

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Jay Pfaffman                           pfaffman at relaxpc.com
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