Use XFCE? What apps could you not live without?

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Naveg · Post by **Naveg** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:09 am

I just got into gentoo and I'm using XFCE. I'd like to know what all your favourite applications are that work well with XFCE and dont pull in tons of gnome or kde dependencies. Everything from filemanagers to media players and system monitors, what could you not live without?

M1Sports20 · Post by **M1Sports20** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:57 am

of course rox file manager. I love the tab completion along with a gui, I don't use the desktop, although you could if you want a desktop with xfce4

ziggysquatch · Post by **ziggysquatch** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:18 am

xfce-extra/terminal

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:31 am

I was a long-time Xfce user before switching to GNOME, so here's my list:

xfce-extra/xfce4-diskperf: A disk I/O monitor (panel applet)
xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload: A CPU/RAM/Swap/uptime monitor (panel applet)
x11-terms/rxvt-unicode: A fast and good-looking terminal with support for Unicode (UTF-8, etc.) and, optionally, tabs .
rox-base/rox: Rox is a light desktop environment but in its default mode you can use it as a simple and highly configurable file manager

Cheers.

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:56 am

My list with xfce:

adesklets -- weather-forecast + yab
gkrellm2 -- system stats + mail notification
root-tail -- tailing log file
(g)mplayer -- playing movies
rox -- file manager
rxvt-unicode -- as a terminal (used aterm previously)

revertex · Post by **revertex** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:19 pm

I'm not a xfce user but as a fluxbox user i'm even looking for apps that have a very few dependencies but still cool and useful.

here some sugestions:

rox of course
wheatherforecast adesklet
feh (just embed in rox menu)
xosd to pipe tons of things to my screen
idesk
dillo
gftp
giftcurs
linneighborhood
amule
bittornado
qtorrent
screen
beep (useful in some scripts)
gqview
gtkdiskfree
vim /gvim
cplay
alsamixer (curses)
xmms
gvidcap
quickrip
drip
avidemux
gmplayer
realone
adobe reader (for ebooks)
xpdf (for small files)
graveman
abiword
scribus
inkscape
xchm
xpad
tkpassman
unclutter
gkrellm
root-tail
torsmo
gtk-theme-swich
gtk-chtheme
porthole (just to browse packages)
iftop
ethercap
mtr
netwach
nmap
nethogs
nc
wmix
wmdrawer
wmfire
asmem
wmnd
wmtop
aterm, eterm, xterm, mrxvt, xfce terminal
plus a bunch of bash scripts

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:06 pm

Apps I couldn't live without

, the same goes for my Fluxbox session:

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firefox
rox
graveman
gtkpod
bmp
gmplayer
gqview 
gimp
gaim
conky (if only it could start up with XFCE4 :( )
aterm

thomasvk · Post by **thomasvk** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:50 pm

Must be a noob question, but I can't seem to find gmplayer.

I find mplayer ofcourse and kmplayer frontend for KDE. I enabled the gtk use flag for mplayer but I don't seem to have a gmplayer program.

I hope you can help me.

Noyan · Post by **Noyan** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:44 pm

M1Sports20 wrote:of course rox file manager. I love the tab completion along with a gui, I don't use the desktop, although you could if you want a desktop with xfce4

yeah

rox rocks

aaronf0 · Post by **aaronf0** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:37 pm

well it was konqueror, but that looks rather ugly.
nautilus is pretty nice, but pisses me off somethimes.
ill be downloading thunar as soo as it reaches a sort of pre beta state. (thunar will be the official xfce file manager)

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:55 pm

aaronf0 wrote:ll be downloading thunar as soo as it reaches a sort of pre beta state. (thunar will be the official xfce file manager)

Yeah, and it'll rock, if all this will be done

forceflow2 · Post by **forceflow2** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:18 pm

geniux wrote:Apps I couldn't live without , the same goes for my Fluxbox session:
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conky (if only it could start up with XFCE4 :( )
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I have torsmo running fine with XFCE4,was so much changed that it doesn't work anymore, because I was thinking about switching shortly.

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:26 pm

forceflow2 wrote:
geniux wrote:Apps I couldn't live without , the same goes for my Fluxbox session:
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conky (if only it could start up with XFCE4 :( )
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I have torsmo running fine with XFCE4,was so much changed that it doesn't work anymore, because I was thinking about switching shortly.

I got it working, finally, had to set the time-delay at 7seconds. But now it works, so I'm not complaining

carpman · Post by **carpman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:08 pm

geniux wrote:
forceflow2 wrote:
geniux wrote:Apps I couldn't live without , the same goes for my Fluxbox session:
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conky (if only it could start up with XFCE4 :( )
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I have torsmo running fine with XFCE4,was so much changed that it doesn't work anymore, because I was thinking about switching shortly.
I got it working, finally, had to set the time-delay at 7seconds. But now it works, so I'm not complaining

Could expand on how you got it to start with xfce4?

cheers

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:34 pm

carpman wrote: Could expand on how you got it to start with xfce4?

cheers

Put this in your .xinitrc:

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exec startxfce4 & wmpid=$!
sleep 5s
conky &
wait $wmpid

You may have to change the delay to a higher value if it doesn't show, or lower if it takes to long

carpman · Post by **carpman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:54 pm

Thanks for quick reply, tried up to 9 and low as 2 secs and it does not load?

any ideas?

/var/log/messages show nothing!

cheers

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:00 pm

Hmm, that's weird. Does it start if you run conky from the terminal?

carpman · Post by **carpman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:24 pm

geniux wrote:Hmm, that's weird. Does it start if you run conky from the terminal?

Yep runs fine from console, using it now.

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:39 pm

carpman wrote:
geniux wrote:Hmm, that's weird. Does it start if you run conky from the terminal?
Yep runs fine from console, using it now.

Ok, and there's no typos in .xinitrc or so? If not, do you have any WM that you know conky starts up with?
Haven't had this problem myself though, so it's a bit tricky to find out what's causing the problem, but you could ask here. Since this guy built conky, he might know

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:25 pm

@carpman
Were you able to solve it?

aaronf0 · Post by **aaronf0** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:51 pm

put a link to conky in ~/Desktop/Autostart ...

MmmmJoel · Post by **MmmmJoel** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:45 am

I'm now hooked on wxMusik. There used to not be a good Gtk2 Rhythmbox-style player that wouldn't drag in all the Gnome deps (and could handle 10k+ FLACs). Now there's an ebuild in Bugzilla that works fine and I'm not turning back.

carpman · Post by **carpman** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:04 am

works fine with autostart solution !

thanks