Just switched to XFCE -- some newbie-esque questions

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:30 +0000, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 1. How can I toggle a window's ``always on top'' flag?  I tried using
> metacity to get around this, but would much rather continue using XFCE's
> own window manager :-).

This option is available in Xfce 4.2

> 2. I have noticed that os-cillation do a Debian testing version of 4.2
> beta, including all sorts of useful utilities (I like the idea of trying
> ROX as a file manager, for example).  Does anyone use the os-cillation
> distribution of XFCE and, if so, do they know if it will be either
> supported after Sarge's release and/or submitted into the next Debian
> testing distribution?

I guess you should either ask that on Os-cillation forums on even on
Debian lists... We can't speek in the name of Os-cillation or Debian.

> 3. I also get the inability to shutdown problem, but will follow that
> thread for info on how to fix it.

It's a fairly common problem, but Xfce 4.0.x was not shipping with a
session manager. Again, I think it's worth upgrading to 4.2 (we should
release the first release candidate this weekend.

HTH,
Cheers,
Olivier.