xffm v rox and changing default programs

[Ondrej Mihalyi]

I installed from oscillation debian packages and I also found weird that "File Manager" in the desktop menu launches rox (well, not that weird, because I don't have xffm4 installed)
But than I looked into the menu configuration and it was set to launch rox directly with command "rox", I expected something like "xfce-filemanager" which would then launch rox, if it could not launch xffm.
Maybe the installation script of the package updates the menu file so that it would be set to xffm, if it was installed, but I don't believe it.
Others say, that xfld also works with rox by default, it could mean that oscillation just don't like xffm and choose rox wherever possible...

I think you could press on them to change thier mind, if you care.

By the way, the new xfce4.2 really rocks :)

Cheers,

ondro

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:54:23 -0500
Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:10:58 -0800 (PST), Larry Fiske
> <thegreatlarro at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > i've browsed the user manuals and can't find anything about these 2 items:
> > 
> > 1) i'd like to use xffm as a file manager, but rox-filer seems to load, how can
> > i change over to xffm?
> 
> In what context does Rox load - what do you open it from? Is it a
> launcher on the panel? Folder on the Rox desktop? How do you launch
> your filemanager?
> 
> > 
> > 2) where can i change default programs for certain actions?  the help files
> > come up using mozilla-browser, i'd like to use firefox instead, where do i make
> > that change?
> 
> Since Xfce is very moduler, the script that launches the browser
> cannot depend on xffm being there. As such, it actually doesn't use
> xffm to determine the default browser - instead it checks the BROWSER
> environment variable, and if that isn't there, tries mozilla, then a
> couple of other defaults. You could set your BROWSER environment
> variable to solve this.
> 
> > 
> > =====
> > --
> > Later (c),
> > Larry Fiske
> > thegreatlarro at yahoo.com