Help and default browser (XFCE4)

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at moongroup.com> wrote
(on Thursday, 31 July 2003, 11:16 AM +0200):
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:33:49 +0530
> Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > BTW, we need to remove dependencies on env vars. They need to be more
> > dynamic so that we can provide a GUI to handle this sort of thing.
> > 
> Well a solution could be to create an mcs dialog with terminal and
> help browser, and make xfhelp and xfterm C utilities.

I like that idea -- my wife doesn't exactly understand about ENV vars,
and while it's fairly simple for me to change, she'd change it herself
if there were an MCS plugin for it.

> Are there any other helper programs? lock screen perhaps?

xflock actually executes:
 1) xscreensaver-command -lock OR
 2) xlock

so it doesn't rely on ENV vars. 

However, I wouldn't mind seeing this as part of the MCS dialog -- I've
been on machines where I had *both* xscreensaver and xlock, and had to
either modify xflock4 to use xlock, or simply call xlock by itself via
its own launcher. If it were in the mcs dialog, I'd say to have it be a
text fill-in, too -- that way laptop users could map it to 'apm -s' or
whatever their suspend command might be.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/