GnomeVFS Support in XFCE.

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Mar 19 20:53:23 CET 2009


Pat Suwalski wrote:
> 
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
 >
>> Unfortunately, it's not possible to *add* new XSETTINGS properties to 
>> either Xfce 4.4 or 4.6 without hacking some source.  It's a bit easier 
>> to do in 4.6, though.  (Actually, it's possible that 4.6 already 
>> supports Gtk/FileChooserBackend, but my gut feeling is it doesn't.)
> 
> In all of my experimentation I had already rebuilt Xfce 4.6 from 
> experimental. All in all, I would rather stick with the GTK 2.12 from 
> Lenny, so if you could give me any more information about playing with 
> the XSETTINGS I would appreciate that. Also, I don't mind patching code, 
> since I am set on using 4.6 anyway.

Ok, you'll want to look around in xfce4-settings/xfsettingsd/.  There 
are a couple places that have lists of xfconf properties that get 
exported as XSETTINGS.  You'll need to add one there for 
Gtk/FileChooserBackend and then set it manually using xfconf-query.

	-brian



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