On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar > placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain > my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen > through the LOWER area of my glasses.
You can either move the toolbar or create a second one at the bottom. Right click in an empty area of the toolbar (XFCE calls it a panel) and you should see options. > The second shortcoming of Xfce is (at least by it's defaults) that little > attention seems to have been given to the convenient possibilties of the > keyboard; once your fingers know their handling, they operate independently > of your brain, and you can focus on your problems instead of being > permanently distracted by those positioning demands of your mouse. There's a shortcut-key editor with quite a lot of control; no, it's not fully set up by default. > Another exemplary feature of Icewm that I would like to find again under > Xfce, are those 3 tiny 5mm-squares(!) placed next to the digital clock > into the toolbar, showing permanently the main activities of the system, > each using specially coloured top-down rsp. bottom-up indexes: > > Square One shows the load of CPU, HDD and RAM. > > Square Two shows (if active) both, the sending and receiving load of LAN. > > Square Three shows (if active) both, the sending and receiving load of WAN > (including modem activities). > > Alltogether, they use up just 2 cm of the toolbar, yet giving instantly > a detailed insight of all important system activities - and problems. If you add the system monitors to a panel, you'll discover that right-clicking on them allows a bit of configurability, including removing labels and making things smaller. Might not be exactly what you want, but it might be close enough. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150305133322.gt21...@randomstring.org
