List of CLI commands.

[Ray Andrews]

On 26/03/12 08:44 AM, gymka wrote:
> you can go "program menu->settings->sessions and startup" so it's self 
> explanory, it's logical to search such function in such place. i wrote 
> main application and not path how to reach it, because i'm using not 
> english xfce(it's possible that you too using not english UI) so my 
> path is not accurate. I need to translate that path which i see, and 
> if i write xfce4-session-setting it's same il all languages and in all 
> possible panel configuration.

Sure, I can use the GUI, but my question is how to do such things from 
CLI? Would these instructions be different in different languages? 
Anyway, I know that most of the time such changes are made with the GUI 
but sometimes CLI is best, for example, I want to make a script of all 
my little tweeks to Xfce so that if I have to reinstall I can just run 
that script and have everything done at once. Obviously that can't be 
done with GUI applets, but with CLI commands it's easy.   Also, with CLI 
I can keep a log of what I've done:

'xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/activate_action -s switch'

It would take a long sentence to write out how to do that via the menus. 
And with menus, you can forget where things are and have to go hunting: 
"Click, click, click, click ... Ooops, not found here. Click, click, 
click, click ... not here either.  Click click click ... Ooops, I tried 
this already.  Click click click ... Ah! there it is."