icons on the desktop

[Olivier Fourdan]

Neat :) Works pretty well here...

Kudos Edscott!

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 08:58 -0500, Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> The xfce development team is please to inform that the feature of icons
> on the desktop is now implemented for xfce and will appear sometime in
> the next few days with the release of xffm-4.3.3.
> 
> The implementation consists of a very minimalistic filemanager that runs
> on the root window and uses the xffm libraries for simple stuff like
> copying and rendering icons and processing double click.
> 
> To run you execute xffm-deskview. 
> 
> The following questions are probably going to arise, so I take a moment
> to answer in advance.
> 
> Q. Why doesn't the pop up menu appear?
> 
> The default is to let oldstyle window managars (like xfwm3 and fvwm)
> handle the popup menu.
> 
> Q. How can I make the heavier popup menu used by xfdesktop appear?
> 
> Define the environment variable USE_DESKTOP_MENU from the mcs manager
> plugin. This feature can be turned on and off on the run and requires
> that libxfcegui4 be installed previous to the installation of xffm.
> 
> Q. I don't have the mcs-manager running and still want the same
> xfdesktop menu, how then?
> 
> Execute something like this: "USE_DESKTOP_MENU=sure xffm-deskview"
> 
> Q. I can see the xfdektop menu, but why can't I see the icons alongside
> the menu entries?
> 
> The icons make the menu heavier, and are off by default. To enable, use
> the mcs manager to define the environmente variable
> USE_DESKTOP_MENU_ICONS.
> 
> Q. How do I set the background color?
> 
> Use a named color (like brown, seagreen, navyblue, etc.) listed
> in /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt. The default background color is black.
> 
> Q. How do I use a png image for the background?
> 
> After xffm-deskview is up and running, execute your favourite program to
> set the root background. In particular, fvwm-root works fine (soon there
> may be a similar program in the xfce-distribution).
> 
> Q. How can I make the background image change at timed intervals?
> 
> Just write a script that executes your favourite program to set the root
> background at the timed interval. Xffm-deskview will look out for
> changes in the root background and update accordingly.
> 
> Q. How can I set the background image upon xffm-deskview startup?
> 
> Set the environment variable (either by mcs-manager or your usual way)
> DESKTOP_BG_COMMAND with the instruction you would normally use for your
> favourite background setting program. In particular, I use ""fvwm-root
> -r /path/to/background/image.png". 
> 
> 
> Q. I just want to install xffm-deskview, but not xffm-treeview nor
> xffm-iconview nor xfdiff nor anything else. How then?
> 
> In future versions this will be configurable, but not today. You might
> try a "make" and then a selective "make install" on individual
> directories of the xffm distribution.
> 
> 
> Q. When will xffm-4.3.3 be released?
> 
> In a few days time. Currently a few pending issues are being closed at
> the svn branch 4.3.3.0 where development is taking place.
>  
> enjoy (soon),
> 
> 
>