Newbie

[David Mohr]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi to all.
>
> I am new to Xfce after years of using KDE (bloat city).  So far I love  the
> program,
> (xfce-4.4.3 on a freebsd system), but I'm having a little trouble learning
> some basics.
> Is it possible to create desktop icons to launch programs?  Also, I just

Have a look at xfce4-appfinder, from which you can drag and drop to
the desktop (or the panel).

> finished installing
> Skype, and while the Skype icon shows up in the menu under network (along
> with
> Firefox3 and Thunderbird) I can't launch the program from there.  Th only
> way that I can
> launch Skype is from the command line as root.  I'd appreciate a heads up on
> these two issues.

You should never run skype as root! If it does not work as a regular
user, then that's probably the reason the launcher does not work for
you. For me the launcher works just fine.

~David