Kill, must kill!

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Tue Oct 30 13:01:46 CET 2007


On 10/29/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Jonathan Hepburn wrote:
> > On 10/30/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >
> > All I want is to
> > be able to prevent Firefox jumping up on a different (focused)
> > workspace, which I believe to be possible but haven't ever tracked
> > down (granted, I haven't put a massive amount of time in).
>
> That's actually an xfwm4 setting -- I don't recall if it's in 'window
> manager settings' or 'window manager tweaks', though.

It is hidden since 4.4.1, you are right about trunk though.

>
> > Incidentally, which config file is used to store options in XFCE4.4?
> > I'm trying to make all instances of mplayer universal, but the options
> > I've found haven't worked (I'm at work now, so I can't check).
>
> Almost everything is in ~/.config/xfce4/ (more correctly:
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/, where $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to ~/.config/).
>   For various dubiously-valid reasons, there's also some stuff in
> ~/.config/sessions/ and ~/.config/xfce4-session/.  Non-core-Xfce apps
> (like mousepad, xfmedia, xfburn, Terminal, etc.) tend to put their stuff
> in ~/.config/$APPNAME/.
>
> > (there is no complicated and ferocious argument in computer
> > science which cannot be reduced to a simpler and more ferocious
> > argument - apologies to just about everyone).
>
> I'm not sure whether to laugh (it *is* funny), or just sigh
> (unfortunately it's all too true)...

If i just knew what that ment... :-p

Stephan



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