New to Xfce - questions

[Marshall Neill]

HI, I hope the following will help with some of your issue as I run Xfce 
4.11 on Manjaro which shouldn't be all that different from XXfce 4.10 as 
I ran that on Debian Sid with virtually the same configuration.

I do a blkid to find out what UUID is of the USB drive(s) are and then 
pur the information in /etc/fstab
Works great for me as I have 2 USB drives, 1 NTFS and the other EXT4.

I have my screen set to go off after 10min on Batt and 12 mins on AC.  
It is in the Power Manager > Display tab.

I was able to access my Samsung Galaxy S3 on first try.  No idea why not 
for you.

I looked around for the option to display Item count in a directory but 
to no avail.  Maybe someone else has the answer.
I recall someone else with the same issue of apps starting upon login.  
Darned if I can remember the solution as it has never happened to me.

The Editor that I use is Geany. Supports Tabs, remembers exactly where 
you left off and since I modify themes a lot and it show 'auto-complete' 
for many of the functions.  I had use Medit previously  and Sublime.  
Medit was ok, but auto-complete and Sublime kicked out numerous errors 
to '.xsession-errors' file.

I hope this was of some help.

Regards,
Marshall Neill

On 12/28/2014 08:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am running Xfce on Fedora 21 - Xfce 4.10.1
>
> I came to Xfce as it was the desktop on the Fedora-arm 19 remix and 
> liked what I saw.  So with the move to F21, I made the transition from 
> Gnome.  I have a lot 'solved', but a lot still not working as I need it.
>
> I want automount of usb drives.  I changed the setting values, but no 
> change in mounting status.  Drives still come up unmounted.  Do I have 
> to logout and login to get this change to take affect?  Is there a 
> reload feature (Gnome has one, but it does not always work).
>
> I want to access my Samsung Galaxy via USB.  This worked, wierdly, on 
> F20 and Gnome.  It is not working with F21 and Xfce.  Some digging in 
> the Fedora archives shows that this is an MTP device and I need 
> simple-mtpfs.  I installed this and 'simple-mtpfs -l' shows the phone, 
> but it is not being mounted.  What else do I need?
>
> Thunar does not show how many files are in a directory.  I am spoiled 
> with both Nautilus and Nemo telling me how many files, rather than the 
> size of the directory node.  Is this available.
>
> A biggie is I do not like Xfce starting all my apps from my last 
> login.  It gets many wrong, and sometimes the reason for the reboot 
> was things were not going right and I WANTED a clean start!  I run 4 
> copies of Thunderbird, each from a script pointing to their mail 
> directories; autostart gets this wrong.  Multiple copies of Thunar all 
> start up in one window.  Although it tries to get all of my copies of 
> Firebird into the proper workspaces, many end up in the wrong 
> workspace.  Etc.  So I want to turn this off. The settings control for 
> startup does not offer the option to NOT startup what you had last 
> session.
>
> Leafpad is nice, but I am use to gedit that supported tabbed windows 
> for many files opened  in one copy of gedit for editing. I may have a 
> dozen files open at any one time in just a couple of copies of gedit.  
> Leafpad does not seem to support tabbed windows.  Am I missing a 
> setting?  Is there a good option to Leafpad for editing text files?
>
> I am running this on a Lenovo x120e and I have heating problems when 
> both cpus are full out, so I want the sensors panel plugin. But when I 
> select 'show' a setting, it does not.  And when I open sensors again, 
> whatever sensor I selected to 'show' is not selected.
>
> A bigger problem is that screensaver is NOT turning off my display 
> backlight.  The screen is blanked but still lit.  I cannot find any 
> setting in power management about this.  Do others have this problem, 
> or is this a Fedora 21 implementation issue?  F21 with Gnome Live CD 
> does turn off the backlight on screensaver.
>
> Generally I have figured out most things to get stuff how I want it.  
> The above items will get me well along the way to be fully operational.
>
> thank you
>
>
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