New to Xfce - questions

Sun Dec 28 17:40:27 CET 2014

Glad I was at least of some help... lol

Regards,
Marshall Neill

On 12/28/2014 10:06 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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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