New to Xfce - questions

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:52:06 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 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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I have been using medit instead of gedit. It allows all the tabs and
even can use gedit styles, but does not require all the gnome
dependencies.

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