New to Xfce - questions

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/28/2014 05:05 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> 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.

No medit in the Fedora repos.  Would have been nice to look at it.