On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:10:05PM +0000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 12:14, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:30:53PM +0000, Patrick Kirk wrote: > [snip] > > with it. I tried windowmaker for about a day and then came across xfce and > > xfwm (www.xfce.org). Try it: I'm sure you'll like it. > > > > Have fun. > I'm trying it now. The overall impression is nice but there are some > real oddities. > > 1. I can't change the default buttons.
Really? .xfce/xfce3rc allows you to set all the buttons you want. (remove the bak file when you're editing this, or edit it from the console). You can do it non-manually too: just right click on the icon. > 2. Menus are really difficult to edit and don't accept png images. If I > edit xfce3rc by hand, the sodding thing reverts to the default settings > next time I login. Just use the menu editor (from the menu). Also try enabling the menu modules as in the setup panel (Debian, Gnome, Kde). So what if it doesn't support pngs: the png library takes longer to load and is bigger than xpm. Just use GIMP to convert any icons you really want (not too big a job). > 3. There is no place to configure useful things like what Alt-Tab does. > Currently it shows ative windows on this desktop which really isn't much > use if the application I want is on another. Possibly not, but there is a window menu available (3rd button). Also, the debian docs for this arn't too hot. Download the src tgz from the xfce.org site and go through the docs there: there really is a lot there. > 4. It says on man xfce you can drag programs onto the Add to Menu > button. How? All I can achieve is moving the program about the > screen. ITs like the button is waitng for some event that I don;t know > about. Um, yeah, it supports DnD protocol. Just drag the icon from a DnD compliant file manager (such as Rox!). [DnD = Drag and Drop] > I like xfce but would like to see a way to sort out these bugbears. Ha! You think these ones are bad. Try using a 'minority' window manager! Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Computers under water due to SYN flooding.
