Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-04 Thread Joe
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 17:25:09 -0400 wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 21:53:36 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > > > I use the Third Option, the deskbar, which gives vertical panels at > > the side and as far as I can see, no spaces between anything, unless > > you actually place a separator. I use 36 pixels fo

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-03 Thread Dan Ritter
pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 17:20:01 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > I believe The XFCE panel will go vertical, but it doesn't work right. I > just want a row of icons, period. But I can't figure out how to make > that happen; I get huge spaces between the icons. If you know how >

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-03 Thread paulf
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 21:53:36 +0100 Joe wrote: > I use the Third Option, the deskbar, which gives vertical panels at > the side and as far as I can see, no spaces between anything, unless > you actually place a separator. I use 36 pixels for the launcher > panel and 44 pixels, on the other side,

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-03 Thread Joe
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 14:58:48 -0400 wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 17:20:01 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > > Is this a matter of principle for the OP, or does the panel > > interfere with something else? I have three panels, and for me they > > are the main point of running a DE rather than just a window >

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-03 Thread paulf
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 17:20:01 +0100 Joe wrote: > Is this a matter of principle for the OP, or does the panel interfere > with something else? I have three panels, and for me they are the main > point of running a DE rather than just a window manager. But one of > them contains an analogue clock and

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-03 Thread Joe
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:39:11 +0300 Roland Mueller wrote: > XFCE4 panel ca be manually recreated by (as far as I remember) > right-clicking into empty desktop space and then opening settings. > > Other option is mentioned here: > https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/getting-started: > > Quote:

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-03 Thread Roland Mueller
XFCE4 panel ca be manually recreated by (as far as I remember) right-clicking into empty desktop space and then opening settings. Other option is mentioned here: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/getting-started: Quote: "The panel will usually be started automatically as part of your Xfce se

Re: XFCE4 without panels

2023-10-02 Thread Mike Castle
I just tried this in a VM and it seemed to work. >From a command line: xfce4-panel -q find ~/.config | grep panel Remove the xfce4-panel.xml (I also removed the empty directory just named panel.) The lack of panels seems to have survived a reboot. I don't know if it is sufficient for every va

Re: xfce4 tooltips

2022-12-05 Thread fxkl47BF
On Mon, 5 Dec 2022, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:44:33 + > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> i upgraded to bullseye >> xfce4 is 4.16 >> how do i get rid of tooltips >> i can get rid of some but not all > > You didn't say how you got rid of some of the tooltips, so I'll gues

Re: xfce4 tooltips

2022-12-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:44:33 + fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i upgraded to bullseye > xfce4 is 4.16 > how do i get rid of tooltips > i can get rid of some but not all You didn't say how you got rid of some of the tooltips, so I'll guess here. This is after a bit of searching on the Intern

Re: Xfce4: screen visible upon resume before xscreensaver locks it

2022-02-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:50:54 +0900 John Crawley wrote: > On 22/02/2022 23:12, Celejar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running Xfce4 on a recent install of Sid. I have configured Xfce4 > > to "Lock screen before sleep" (in Session and Startup / General), but > > when I use xscreensaver, when resumi

Re: Xfce4: screen visible upon resume before xscreensaver locks it

2022-02-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, John Crawley wrote: On 23/02/2022 11:50, John Crawley wrote: On 22/02/2022 23:12, Celejar wrote: Hello, I'm running Xfce4 on a recent install of Sid. I have configured Xfce4 to "Lock screen before sleep" (in Session and Startup / General), but when I use xscreensaver, whe

Re: Xfce4: screen visible upon resume before xscreensaver locks it

2022-02-22 Thread John Crawley
On 23/02/2022 11:50, John Crawley wrote: On 22/02/2022 23:12, Celejar wrote: Hello, I'm running Xfce4 on a recent install of Sid. I have configured Xfce4 to "Lock screen before sleep" (in Session and Startup / General), but when I use xscreensaver, when resuming from suspend the screen is often

Re: Xfce4: screen visible upon resume before xscreensaver locks it

2022-02-22 Thread John Crawley
On 22/02/2022 23:12, Celejar wrote: Hello, I'm running Xfce4 on a recent install of Sid. I have configured Xfce4 to "Lock screen before sleep" (in Session and Startup / General), but when I use xscreensaver, when resuming from suspend the screen is often visible for a brief period before xscreen

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/16/2021 07:13 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Thank your for your reply. I find that right click on the desktop no longer brings up the Desktop Settings. This still works in the root desktop. Your recommendation for desktop settings is what I routinely use. Ah-hah! M

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > Thank your for your reply. I find that right click on the desktop no longer > brings up the Desktop Settings. This still works in the root desktop. Your > recommendation for desktop settings is what I routinely use. Ah-hah! Mike Kupfer's suggestion is corr

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/15/2021 08:16 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:51:46 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: Given your second message, it is clear that this is a configuration issue that is under the control of your normal user, not an OS-wide problem. You will not need to reinstall. G'day All

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/15/2021 06:18 PM, Lee wrote: On 10/15/21, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/15/2021 09:51 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Hit send a bit too soon. The Root desktop is not affected by the problem. On 10/15/2021 09:16 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Bust

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > how do I fix the problem? > > Settings Manager - Desktop - Wallpaper for my desktop appears to be > completely grayed out and is unresponsive. Is xfdesktop running? If not, start it. It sometimes goes AWOL for reasons I've never tracked down. regards, mike

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:51:46 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: >>Given your second message, it is clear that this is a >>configuration issue that is under the control of your normal >>user, not an OS-wide problem. You will not need to reinstall. G'day All If you can't find a solution by adjusting sett

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Lee
On 10/15/21, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 10/15/2021 09:51 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >>> Hit send a bit too soon. The Root desktop is not affected by the >>> problem. >>> >>> On 10/15/2021 09:16 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Buster with th e Xfc

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/15/2021 09:51 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Hit send a bit too soon. The Root desktop is not affected by the problem. On 10/15/2021 09:16 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Buster with th e Xfce4 Desktop. This morning after a reboot the User Background

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Hit send a bit too soon. The Root desktop is not affected by the problem. > > On 10/15/2021 09:16 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I am running Debian Buster with th e Xfce4 Desktop. > > > > This morning after a reboot the User Background color was no longer the > > co

Re: Xfce4 Problem with User Desktop Background Color

2021-10-15 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Hit send a bit too soon. The Root desktop is not affected by the problem. On 10/15/2021 09:16 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Buster with th e Xfce4 Desktop. This morning after a reboot the User Background color was no longer the color that was set - black, but the entire desk

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, September 14, 2020 1:43 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: > Hi neighbor! Hi, Ralph! > I've been in Denver now for 3 yrs. As you well know, the > weather here can vary greatly by neighborhood. I like weather > und

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 9/13/20 12:49 PM, ghe2001 wrote: [snip] > That sounds like a reasonable solution -- tried it. Nice -- it answers to > either weather and weather-util. My ZIP is 30303 (Boulder, CO): [snip] > I tried a couple other Boulder ZIP codes, and they didn't exist. > [snip] > -- > Glenn English Hi

Re: xfce4 widget problem -- oops

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, September 13, 2020 6:49 PM, ghe2001 wrote: I'm in ZIP 80303, not 30303. Weather-util works fine with the correction. Sorry... -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail ws

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > To get the party started after installation, you type in "weather > --info" plus city name or zip code. There may be other ways, too. I've > only used city name until JUST NOW. That sounds like a reasonable solution -- tried it. Nice -- it answe

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 9/12/20, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Yeah, I've wondered how accurate it can be from Norway -- but it's > (sometimes) close enough for government work. OTOH, I live in Boulder, > Colorado, and one day last week it said it was sunny out. But it wasn't;

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:14, David Wright wrote: > Does anyone know why sunshine recorders are so sparse in the US? > In fact, I'd say they're virtually unknown. In the UK, they're > scattered all over, eg it was seven miles to my local one at: > http://www.weathercast.co.uk/world-weather/weathe

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 13 Sep 2020 at 03:01:15 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > On Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:39 PM, Charles Curley > charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: > > > According tohttps://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin, > > the weather source (met.no) provides forecast data only, so wh

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread Dan Ritter
ghe2001 wrote: > I buy your explanation. It clears up my total bewilderment. I'll keep that > link, too :-) > > I've looked for a better weather widget, but couldn't find one for xfce4. > Anybody know of one? Maybe even one that gets data from the known working > airport a couple miles from he

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-13 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, Same issue from my side. A bug report is already ongoing with XFCE [1]. There seems to be some API issues according to Debian BTS [2]. Best regards, l0f4r0 [1] https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/27 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925561

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sorry not to have sent to the list. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:39 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: > According tohttps://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin, > the weat

Re: xfce4 widget problem

2020-09-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:26:27 + ghe2001 wrote: > I have 2 computers running Debian/xfce4, and the WR widget says "? No > Data" on both of them. > > I've set it to several locations, and WR finds the locations just > fine. It just can't get the weather data. According to https://docs.xfce.or

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 20/7/20 6:40 am, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? Or is everything else readable? Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Not

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: > On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: > > > Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? > > > > > > > > > > > > Or is everything else readable? > > Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes, Synap

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? Or is everything else readable? Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes, Synaptic, vcl are readable. ftpsed, alsamixergui, and some others are not. Liam's suggestion has mad

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 iul 20, 19:01:30, hobie of RMN wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > > > If you install libreoffice-gtk3 then LibreOffice will respect the font > > settings used by XFCE4. > > Thanks, Liam - that does help with LibreOffice. :) alsamixer and probably

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:21:24 +0100 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > Hi, Folks - > > > > I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > > with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > > notably

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 at 19:01:30 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > >> Hi, Folks - > >> > >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > >

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread hobie of RMN
> On 14/7/20 10:26 am, hobie of RMN wrote: >> Hi, Folks - >> >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts >> on >> individu

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread hobie of RMN
> On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: >> Hi, Folks - >> >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger font

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 14/7/20 10:26 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Hi, Folks - I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on individual programs? Perh

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, Folks - > > I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on >

Re: xfce4-terminal appears upon log in

2020-04-01 Thread nito
Hi, On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 05:15:37PM +0800, kaye n wrote: > I'm not sure what I did, but when I log into my Debian, xfce4-terminal > opens automatically. > > Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 I'm guessing you either added the terminal to autostart on login, or you once told XFCE to save your session on log

Re: Xfce4-Terminal Prompt is Changed by ANACONDA

2019-10-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i meant not [...] man bas, section PROMPTING. but rather [...] man bash, section PROMPTING. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Xfce4-Terminal Prompt is Changed by ANACONDA

2019-10-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > or some reason the Xcfc4-Termial is: > (base) comp@AbNormal:~$ > rather than: > comp@AbNormal:~$ Check the content of the environment variable PS1. me@myhost:~> echo $PS1 \u@\h:\W> The meaning of the "\"-codes is explained in man bas, section PROMPTING. I gues

Re: Xfce4 Applications Appearance.

2019-07-12 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 07/12/2019 01:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just installed Buster with the Xfce Desktop and am finding problems with the appearance of some of the applications in tahat labels and icons are run together. I have attached a screenshot of the Pluma editor. During

Re: Xfce4 Applications Appearance.

2019-07-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have just installed Buster with the Xfce Desktop and am finding problems > with the appearance of some of the applications in tahat labels and icons > are run together. I have attached a screenshot of the Pluma editor. > > During the installation of Buster I didn't a

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

2019-07-08 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-07, Erik Dobák wrote: > > same behavior with xclip -o --selection clip-board > clip10.txt > I think you must pipe the primary to the clipboard before redirecting the clipboard to a file. xclip -o | xclip -sel clip > clip10.txt https://github.com/astrand/xclip I was unaware of this p

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

2019-07-07 Thread Nicolas George
Erik Dobák (12019-07-07): > same behavior with xclip -o --selection clip-board > clip10.txt Check the manpage better. (And blame xclip for accepting malformed options.) Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

2019-07-07 Thread Erik Dobák
same behavior with xclip -o --selection clip-board > clip10.txt On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 21:30, Nicolas George wrote: > Erik Dobák (12019-07-07): > > Hi i have this problem for some months now. If i do a screenshot and copy > > it to clipboard it does not arrive there. > > > > Checked by xclip -o >

Re: xfce4-screenshooter does not copy images to clipboard

2019-07-07 Thread Nicolas George
Erik Dobák (12019-07-07): > Hi i have this problem for some months now. If i do a screenshot and copy > it to clipboard it does not arrive there. > > Checked by xclip -o > screenshot.txt > either there is nothing or something old. This xclip command does not check the clipboard but the primary se

Re: xfce4-session launched from .xinitrc, clobbers xrandr settings

2018-08-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 07:21:55PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > OK, so I thought I'd wait 3 weeks, and yeah, I know, it's only been > 20 days, but hey, color me impatient. > > What I ended up doing is just adding an xrandr entry to my xfce4 > session, but this seems to slow the startup of the G

Re: xfce4-session launched from .xinitrc, clobbers xrandr settings

2018-08-22 Thread Zenaan Harkness
OK, so I thought I'd wait 3 weeks, and yeah, I know, it's only been 20 days, but hey, color me impatient. What I ended up doing is just adding an xrandr entry to my xfce4 session, but this seems to slow the startup of the GUI starting - i.e. it seems like XFCE4 does some internal default monitor (

Re: Xfce4 - uninstalled pulseaudio - no volume control for alsa for the panel

2018-07-05 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:08:05 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > you might want to have a look at pnmixer. > > It works with both pulseaudio and plain alsa and should work with any > > DE's system tray. > > Sounds great. By default, it simply starts, in XFCE, in the tray. > > The man page needs a p

Re: Xfce4 - uninstalled pulseaudio - no volume control for alsa for the panel

2018-07-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 11:27:07PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:54:35 +0200 > Aldo Maggi wrote: > > > As for the Subject, I' ve uninstalled pulseaudio because after an > > upgrade I couldn't hear anything from the speakers (it happened already > > in the past more

Re: Xfce4 - uninstalled pulseaudio - no volume control for alsa for the panel

2018-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:54:35 +0200 Aldo Maggi wrote: > As for the Subject, I' ve uninstalled pulseaudio because after an > upgrade I couldn't hear anything from the speakers (it happened already > in the past more than once). > > Now I have audio again but it appears that there is no plugin

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:42:08PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:31:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:35:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > This, dear reader assumes you are reading in monospace (Zenaan, I > > > know you do, but thi

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:31:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:35:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > This, dear reader assumes you are reading in monospace (Zenaan, I > > know you do, but think of those poor souls boun

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:35:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This, dear reader assumes you are reading in monospace (Zenaan, I > know you do, but think of those poor souls bound to a Web interface ;-) They are already in hell. Nothing I can do to save them. > > ← ↑ ↓ → ⋱ ⋰ ⇄ ※ >

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:25:40AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [...] > Tomas - I will try your Liberation font suggestion, but xfce term is > giving me a rock solid "Fixed" experience, AND the fancy character > dancing... for me, this is peak produ

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:41:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:52:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I'm using font "Fixed SemiCondensed" 8 pt in xfce4-term - and it > > seems xfce4-terminal has some fallback to either some other font(s?) > > but in any case, displa

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:52:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I'm using font "Fixed SemiCondensed" 8 pt in xfce4-term - and it seems xfce4-terminal has some fallback to either some other font(s?) but in any case, displays all Unicode chars I've tried to display, whereas xterm fails on some cha

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:52:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:38:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > A couple of years ago or five, I switched back to xterm (from a random > > walk which included gnome-terminal at so

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:38:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > A couple of years ago or five, I switched back to xterm (from a random > walk which included gnome-terminal at some point). Xterm had fixed its > UTF-8 problems, could use modern fonts and all that. > > Reading your accounts remim

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:13:47PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:33:01PM +0300, Reco wrote: [...] > > --disable-server removes xfce4-terminal ability to talk to DBUS, which > > is intended be used, presumably (too lazy to

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:33:01PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:11:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > >From t

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:11:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > >

SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal &

Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal & > > Now from those terminals, run: > > echo $MYVAR > > > In x

Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal & > > Now from those terminals, r

Re: xfce4 user switching with kdm as the display manager

2015-05-18 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 17/05/15 18:24, Iain M Conochie wrote: Hi all, I have recently switched my desktop (environment?) from KDE to xfce on a jessie install. I am still running kdm. I have noticed that the Switch User functionality within the action buttons on the top panel (Panel 1) is grey-out. Is there a

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-09 Thread Jape Person
On 10/09/2014 07:13 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/06/2014 09:41 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: ... What needs to be added or configured to get a brightness slider or other brightness control for the backlight? ... I think at this version they switched from u

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-09 Thread Lars Noodén
On 10/06/2014 09:41 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: ... What needs to be added or configured to get a brightness slider or other brightness control for the backlight? ... I think at this version they switched from using a notification area applet for the powe

Re: XFCE4 Power Manager Brightness Panel Plugin

2014-10-06 Thread Jape Person
On 10/06/2014 10:49 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: I've got xfce4-power-manager 1.4.1-1 in xfce4 on jessie and would like to find a way to dim the LCD backlight. I'm not seeing a brightness panel anywhere like this one: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/brightness nor does the back

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-26 Thread Lars Noodén
Thanks. On 09/26/2014 01:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: Maybe X isn't getting the correct resolution from the monitor. Check the xorg log file and see if that helps. The Xorg log file ( /var/log/Xorg.0.log ) shows no relevant errors and only a few items that seem to relate to the resolution.

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 20:48:59 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in > >LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's > >an X thing, plain and simple. > > There are st

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:59PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in > >LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's > >an X thing, plain and simple. > > There are

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's an X thing, plain and simple. There are still some configuration options I have missed that are needed to try L

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:08:54 +0300 Lars Noodén wrote: > In XFCE4, on Jessie, I am getting a display resolution of 1400x1050 > instead of 1680x1050. If I go to the XFCE Menu -> Settings -> > Display, it gives me only a single choice, that of 1400x1050, not > higher or lower. > > xrandr seems to

Re: Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

2014-05-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/18/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 5/17/14, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 17.05.2014 04:27, schrieb Zenaan Harkness: >>> I have no display manager. >> >> [..] >> >>> Also, I would like to see Shutdown and Suspend enabled, of course. >> >> Most likely related to [0]. >> Make sure you have libpam

Re: Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

2014-05-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/17/14, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 17.05.2014 04:27, schrieb Zenaan Harkness: >> I have no display manager. > > [..] > >> Also, I would like to see Shutdown and Suspend enabled, of course. > > Most likely related to [0]. > Make sure you have libpam-systemd installed and enabled and when > start

Re: Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

2014-05-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.05.2014 04:27, schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > I have no display manager. [..] > Also, I would like to see Shutdown and Suspend enabled, of course. Most likely related to [0]. Make sure you have libpam-systemd installed and enabled and when starting the X session to use the same tty as your co

Re: Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

2014-05-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Happy to receive guidance on new vs old threads... On 4/1/13, Brian wrote: > On Sun 31 Mar 2013 at 20:23:39 +0200, Armin Maisch wrote: >> When I want to log off from Xfce by using the xfce-dialog I find three >> buttons there: logoff (which is working as it should, reboot, which is >> just grey a

Re: Xfce4 - drags open browser from other desktop..........

2013-12-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Dec 2013 at 07:59:54 +1100, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: > > Using Debian Jessie - Xfce4 > > When I click on a URL in my mail program, my open browser window is > dragged from it's position on another desktop, over my open mail program > window rather than wha

Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

2013-12-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Sunday 15 December 2013 09:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. I logout (save session

Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

2013-12-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Sunday 15 December 2013 09:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. I logout (save session

Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

2013-12-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/15/13, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? >> I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. >> I logout (save session on exit), shutdown. >> Un-dock the laptop (disconnec

Re: xfce4-panels - bottom panel disappeared off the screen, after reboot without docking the laptop

2013-12-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Sunday 15 December 2013 07:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea if there is some way to bring back my bottom xfce4-panel? I started with two external monitors, 1920x1200. I logout (save session on exit), shutdown. Un-dock the laptop (disconnecting both monitors). Now reboot (laptop only)

Re: XFCE4 DateTime applet - custom timezone

2013-12-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 12 Dec 03:05 -0600, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I would like a second copy of DateTime in my panel, with a custom > timezone - UTC for now. > > Is this possible with xfce4-panel ? I just added the Orage Clock Applet to my panel and can select the timezone and configure it to display the ti

Re: XFCE4 DateTime applet - custom timezone

2013-12-12 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Thursday 12 December 2013 02:34 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I would like a second copy of DateTime in my panel, with a custom timezone - UTC for now. Is this possible with xfce4-panel ? Seen this? http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23218/how-to-add-a-custom-timezone-clock-to-an-xfce-pa

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/10/13, Kailash wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2013 07:48 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 9/5/13, Nate Bargmann wrote: >>> * On 2013 05 Sep 05:48 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: > > (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING *

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-10 Thread Kailash
On Thursday 05 September 2013 07:48 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/5/13, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * On 2013 05 Sep 05:48 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/5/13, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2013 05 Sep 05:48 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> > Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: >> > >> > (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: >> > Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. >> > >> >

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 05 Sep 05:48 -0500, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: > > > > (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: > > Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. > > > > Evince error: > > > > (evince:15620): Gtk

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Turns out, they both produce almost identical errors. Gedit error: > > (gedit:15593): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: > Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'. > > Evince error: > > (evince:15620): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:101:18: > Not using units i

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/5/13, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 01 September 2013 08:24 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. >>> >>> Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have >>> been happy since. >>

Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks

2013-09-04 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 01 September 2013 08:24 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/1/13, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. >> >> Another vote for xfce. I switched to it quite a while ago, and have >> been happy since. > > I find it adequate; ~8months now

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