New to Xfce - questions

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/28/2014 10:39 AM, Marshall Neill wrote:
> 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.

That is what I use, and it is not 'switching off' the display.  I have 
filed a bug on this to Fedora.

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

It seems there are a set of things you need to install, and these are 
not in the basic install of Xfce on F21.

>
> 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.

Geany looks very powerful.  I did start it once, but backed off. Now I 
am trying to customize it to my needs...  Thanks.

>
> 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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