XFCE/Fedora questions

Ben Steeves bcs at metacon.ca
Thu Feb 12 13:55:32 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:27, Jan-Thomas Czornack wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
> > I want to run XFCE as my default environment, but it doesn't seem to
> > "stick".  GDM says I need to use "switchdesk" to change my default
> > desktop, but XFCE doesn't appear in the list (only GNOME, KDE, and TWM).
> 
> Have you tried to make an XFCE file in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions ?

D'oh!  I knew that!!! :-)

> With FireBird0.7 (and probably also with FireFox0.8) you can use the 
> remote command. For example:
> 
> MozillaFirebird -remote "OpenURL(http://fedora.redhat.com, new-window)"

Works great if there's already a session running, but doesn't start one
if there's no session running.  I'll hack my way through the archives.


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