XFCE4 at last: queries

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hey Philip,

Op do 09-10-2003, om 15:09 schreef Philip Webb:
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> however, i have a few problems: (1) how do i get the workspace buttons
> to show the names i have assigned them? they do in XFCE 3 :

The thing you see in the panel is the graphical pager, it doesn't do
workspace names. What you want is the desktop switcher which you can add
to the panel from the right-click menu.

> (2) how can i get a larger font in XFterm ?  it's too tiny ;

xfterm4 is a shell script that starts xterm or another terminal if you
set the TERMCMD variable. So, e.g. in ~/.bash_profile you can add 

  export TERMCMD="xterm -fn 10x20" 

and you should get large fonts in you terminal the next time you log in.

> (3) Mutt is not using the right colors (they're ok in XFCE 3 ):

No idea. Could be some environment settings I suppose.

> is it something i have to set for XFterm ?
> (4) how can i change the rather silly choice of desktop mouse-buttons
> -- middle-click gets a workspace list & right-click a menu of commands,
> while L-click does nothing -- : surely, one sb able to choose what does what;

Not currently. I'm thinking about adding an option. And it's not that
silly, considering that most desktops have a menu on right click.

> (5) a puzzle AD FIN : a screensaver started up while i was absent,
> but it wasn't one of those set by  .xscreensaver : does XFCE 4 have its own ?
> i want to have a full serving of Xscreensaver via my well-tuned config file.
> 

No idea. Xfce just starts xscreensaver, or xlock if that fails. So, this
should have worked for you.

> and a simple feature request, surely easy to implement:
> can we get to set different colors for each workspace background ?
> esp i want to make the background fire-red/yellow for my root terminal,
> but also it wb much pleasanter to have varied colors for instant recognition. 
> i do like the mouse on the lined background, but not all the same color.

The phrase "surely easy to implement" never seems to be spoken by the
people actually implementing that feature ... ;-)

I welcome all patches, this would be a nice feature indeed. Be sure to
include a patch for the settings dialog.

	Jasper