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nazgum Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 111 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject: merging xfce4 and gnome 2.4 - rocks |
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I just wanted to share a feature here.
I really like gnome as my desktop - but I was somewhat disappointed with not being able to customize some things (or maybe more realistically - not knowing how to customize some things)
And I tried xfce4 - and didn't really like it. - But I really like that you could change the right click menu easily (edit ~/.xfce4/menu.xml) and that you could scroll the mouse wheel on the desktop to change workspaces.
So keeping with gnome - I disabled nautilus to draw the desktop - opened a terminal and did:
xfdesktop &
Restarted gnome so the session manager knew to keep it - and voila - exact same gnome 2.4 as before except now I can swing mouse wheel to change workspaces and I can customize my right click menu.
I thought it was nice so I figure I would share. |
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astika Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 131 Location: /usr/local/src
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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do you still get icons on the desktop as well? _________________ even now in heaven, there were angels carrying savage weapons |
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caffeine_junkie Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 133 Location: Vienna, Austria
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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how do you tell nautilus not to draw the desktop? |
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astika Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 131 Location: /usr/local/src
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Code: | $ nautilus --no-desktop & |
_________________ even now in heaven, there were angels carrying savage weapons |
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merlinBSD Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 122 Location: cairns FNQ Australia
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: |
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or u can just use openbox instead of metacity as ur window manager
no need to tell nautilus not to draw the desktop mouse wheel will then work...
And u will still have desktop icons |
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