xfce November 2011

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notes-plugin?
by Todd And Margo Chester 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

HI All, I was over at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/ and found no sign of xfce4-notes-plugin. Have you guys found a better sticky note program? If not, would you please consider adding xfce4-notes-plugin back into the repo? Many thanks, -T

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HD activity lights
by Raphael Groner 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi Todd, > Does anyone know of a plugin that will flicker when there > is hard drive activity? $ yum install xfce4-diskperf-plugin See also http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-diskperf-plugin

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Updates notifier
by Raphael Groner 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi Todd, > Is there some replacement for the package updater? As fas as I know, puplet is the systray applet for pup. Pup had been the update / package manager before it got replaced by PackageKit. Unfortunately, there's no known notification applet in PackageKit, at least not in my knowledge base. In case of Xfce, you could use a little script that uses xfce4-notify to show on-screen notification or the panel plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin that calls the script periodically. $ yum install xfce4-genmon-plugin See also http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin

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XFCE in F-16 and ssh-agent
by Ville-Pekka Vainio 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi, I'm having trouble getting ssh-agent (or something similar like gnome-keyring) working on XFCE. I know almost nothing about this stuff, but here's something I've found with Google: Bug report against GDM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632304 Upstream bug report, I wonder if Fedora is shipping these patches already: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5912 A comment on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/465996/ The latter line should probably be "xfconf-query -n -c xfce4-session -p /startup/ssh-agent/type -t string -s ssh-agent" but neither of these make any difference. -- Ville-Pekka Vainio

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Xfce window handling problem
by Jos Vos 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi, Since I switched from GNOME to Xfce I have a problem with a Java application I use. After logging in in the application, it starts a splash screen with progress bar and then a window pops up where you have to enter a security code, with an input field and OK and Cancel buttons. Under GNOME, this all works fine, you fill in the code, click on OK, the window disappears and the splash screen progress bar continues. Under Xfce (F14 and F15), you fill in the code, click on OK and nothing happens. After OK, you have to click either on Cancel or on the window manager "X" button, and only then the window disappears and the procedure continues in a normal way. This all is a fully reproducable and deterministic behaviour. Is this some xfwm4 problem? -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

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HD activity lights
by Todd And Margo Chester 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi All, Xfce 4.8 on SL 6.1 My RAID controller is not strong enough to light my hard drive LED. Does anyone know of a plugin that will flicker when there is hard drive activity? Many thanks, -T

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Updates notifier
by Todd And Margo Chester 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi All, SL 6.1, x64 Xfce 4.8 Hi All, I just migrated over from Xfce 4.4.2 to 4.8. Under the old Xfce, I had a "Package Updater" in my panel 1 (task bar). As far as I an tell it was: /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/bin/puplet I may be wrong about the above. Is there some replacement for the package updater? Many thanks, -T

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How to edit application menus
by John Jason Jordan 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

I'm new to this list. :) I have had XFCE installed for some time on my Fedora 16 x86_64 laptop, but used it only as an emergency desktop in case I messed up Gnome. But after upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 I have become a Gnome 3 refugee, and I am coming to like XFCE a lot. My XFCE application menu is pretty messed up. I have extra folders and application entries are scattered in the wrong folders. One new folder is "Other," and it appears that XFCE stuck everything it didn't know what to do with into it. Every time I go to launch a seldom-used application it takes a long time to wade through the folders trying to find it. After hours of googling none of the suggestions that I have found for editing the application menus work. For example, apparently there are desktop entries in /usr/share and in ~/.local/share/applications, but I can't find desktop files for some of the items that appear in the menu. I also can't find any place where the folders are listed. Alacarte ran briefly after the upgrade from 14 to 16, but after nearly a thousand software updates it won't launch at all. And when it did launch it showed only the menu that I was using in Gnome. I'd be happy to have the Gnome menu if there was a way to migrate it to XFCE. (I haven't ever actually logged in to Gnome since the upgrade to Fedora 16.) I really need to edit the application menus. I hope someone here can tell me the secret. I don't mind doing it manually; I just need clear instructions.

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Center lower panel?
by David 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

I asked this on the Xfce Users list and received a suggestion from a kind user there to a solution that 'almost works'. But I will ask again because what I want to do I can actually see in the Current Xfce here in Fedora. quote me. I have created a 2nd panel that is 'Launcher count sized to fit' that contains 6 'launchers' that I have placed at the bottom of the screen. But I can not seem to get it to 'center justify'. The Help says that placing it on the right, left, or bottom should automatically center it. What am I doing incorrectly and where can I find the necessary information to correct this? -- David

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gnome-panel??
by Beartooth 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

As one of the refugees from Gnome3, I'm running and trying to learn xfce under F16 -- and the xfce-panel is still a major stumbling block. I did "yum install gnome-panel," and it worked. But neither "gnome- panel" nor "/usr/bin/gnome-panel" works. I get an error message about gnome-shell which I can't even c&p here, because without gnome-panel I can't even get to it. Catch-22?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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