xfce4 rc3 + icons + idesk

[Todd Slater]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:17:01PM -0400, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:32 +1000
> Stephen Kuhn <skuhn at telpacific.com.au> uttered:
> 
> > 
> > Sorry to  jump into the thread half-way, but has anyone tried using
> > ROX as the desktop yet been able to access the XFCE4 "right-click" to
> > get a menu on the desktop? 
> 
> there's an option in ROX filer to pass right clicks to the window
> manager. I do not know for sure if it works in XFCE, but it should. Open
> a filer window, right click, select options, then compatibility.

It will not work as xfdesktop draws over the root window. Killing
xfdesktop kills the menu but lets you see the root window. One solution
might be to use ROX pinboard with a ROX menu--I think I read something
about that on the ROX list a while back, though I'm not on it anymore.

Todd