List of CLI commands.

[Ahau @porteus.org]

Is this what you're looking for?

http://wiki.xfce.org/settings4.6

--prepared for 4.6 but probably the same or quite similar for 4.8

or, the man page for xfconf-query:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/xfconf-query.1.html

I've done very little with xfconf-query myself, I typically manually
edit the xml files (yes, I know this is not recommended, but if I were
to do more mods by scripts, I'd probably force myself to learn it.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 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."
>
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