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WebUpd8
Launchpad
OMG! Ubuntu!
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I agree, it's my favourite DE. You might want to take a look at Whisker Menu. It's a replacement for Application Menu and has an application finder built.
If you want something different, they have xfdashboard coming. That's only available in a PPA at the moment.
I think your issue is with CSD or client side decorations. There is a fork or patch to xfwm that removes CSD and if you're using 4.16 looks like you can disabled them in some cases: https://winaero.com/disable-client-side-decorations-in-xfce-for-open-save-dialog/
Download some Bengali fonts like these here https://fonts.google.com/?subset=bengali
Create a config file /etc/fonts/conf.d/98-user.conf and put something like the below code inside:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="pattern"> <test name="lang" compare="contains"> <string>bn</string> </test> <test qual="any" name="family"> <string>sans-serif</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong"> <string>Hind Siliguri</string> </edit> </match>
<match target="pattern"> <test name="lang" compare="contains"> <string>bn</string> </test> <test qual="any" name="family"> <string>serif</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong"> <string>Atma</string> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>
Check results with:
$ fc-match $ fc-match :lang=bn $ fc-match :lang=en
Used font names are for illustration only.
Booting from USB comes before the grub menu (assuming you're using grub). So you'll need to go into BIOS to change the boot sequence or, which is preferable, find the appropriate key to bring the boot menu.
Otherwise, if you're using grub, you can try this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-reset-any-linux-password/
To expand on this: If you ever need to find something slightly obscure, you can actually search Launchpad's user-added PPA's (personal package archives)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas
Be cautious though as often times older archives can be a bit sketchy. And remember, source code isn't scary. It's your friend. Your really really difficult, crazy friend.
Yeah... I'm thinking I'm not going to like CSD once it's forced down the line to me in Slackware.
There are some not-too-happy folks discussing this HERE. There's also a way to disable CSD. It's explained HERE.
Sometimes, progress is not a good thing. One of the main reasons I love Xfce, and have been using it since KDE went beyond v3.15 into new and awful territory, is because it's SIMPLE and nice looking.
Meh... whaddya' gonna' do? I run GNU/LInux for two reasons: because it's NOT MS Winblows and because it can be endlessly tweaked and customized to make it how I want it to be.
My advice to you, and what I will probably do when the time comes, is to just disable the CSD entirely. Hopefully, that won't corrupt the usefulness of Xfce. I haven't seen any complaints from folks who have disabled it, so it must be possible with little pain involved.
Luck to you, my friend. Let us know how you manage to resolve this.
Later...
~Eric
Well yeah to be fair Crouton looks like a weird solution (I just looked it up and apparently it's far from a "normal" Linux experience). I'd recommend trying Ubuntu or Debian+XFCE as a Live system on USB but again I don't know if Chromebooks support that. If you have an old broken 2003-2010 laptop lying around somewhere, a Debian+XFCE live USB would be the fastest way to try the "real" stuff. Good luck!
Since you managed to install Crouton in the first place and it's a bit technical, I'd say you're on the right track :)
no problem, XFCE is a pretty cool guy, it's a good compromise between a light footprint and easy configuration.
many developers use it although it's slowly updated, ironically.
It's not really tiling or I mean not like a tiling window manager. Think of MS Windows where you can snap windows to the right or left using <win>+right/left. Quicktile does things like that. Included is a mapping for snapping a window to the next monitor. This link, under the "Multi-Monitor Operations" details it. http://ssokolow.com/quicktile/commands.html I've been using this script for years but at this point now that XFCE has a bunch more window-moving keybindings, I only use it for moving windows between monitors, I disable everything else.
> their insistence on my creating an account to log in, especially for this, is cheeky in the extreme.
if you dont want to , you are always free. no one insisting to make you do it.
sign up / login has nothing to do with anonymity.
we have ssl clearnet link:
so as onion link for better anonymity:
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> arandr
Going for the lazy fix now. Working on my new setup. The two monitors are mirrored, so I can watch Kodi on my 65" tv as well as on the monitor. I have also two PCs with two other monitors. I use Synergy so I need only one mouse keyboard. There is an open source version available called "barrier: but that stuttered like crazy with me and did not work.
Yup, that's perfect. Thanks.
How about a text editor suggestion? Leafpad is decent but it doesn't stand up to gedit. Bluefish and eclipse are both a bit much for simple texteditor. The real thing is that I want gray text on a black background because reading on white is no fun. On Leafpad you can't set the background color.
EDIT: Mousepad with the Oblivion theme selected does the trick.
Thunar is killing me. It crashes mounting USB drives and at other bad times. I like Nemo but it's slow displaying folder contents and they can't figure out why, Nautilus is just plain ridiculous now, I forget my gripe with PCManFM. I just don't know what to use anymore.
Is this on 18.04?
Perhaps you already know about this, but... There used to be an option, not sure if still works, since on 18.04 there is a new feature to make a "Minimal Install", that used to install only a bare bones Xubuntu system, I've used it a couple of times, and it worked pretty well.
i feel you on this!
it surprises me how many manufacturers have actually seemed to have gone away from implementing any sort of error code system. every frigging motherboard for the last 10 years or so should at LEAST have some LED diagnostic codes built in. i was kinda shocked to learn that most don't. the ones who still have a few beep codes hanging around aren't documented very clearly. last time i was looking up info on a board to attempt to help someone, i had to dig hard to find even a single list of potential codes. i say potential because it was from 9+ years ago and apparently maybe they're possibly still in use on some current boards, but you won't find any documentation telling you for sure, just some poor souls in a forum post speculating and wishing.
heh. i don't understand it, but, all i know is i have had https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SPYB2HF/ in my amazon cart for a few months already because why the heck not.
I haven't tried it myslef, I don't use desktop icons for aestetic reasons. Let me paste here what I've found on Ubuntuforums so Admins here won't be angry with me:
>I see the same problem, but on my host machine. It's mitigated with the xfdesktop 4.12 but still not fully fixed. I just gave up and wrote a script to deal with it -
#!/bin/ksh
# Small script to restore xfdesktop layout, which gets wiped # when a new session is started.
cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop
for i in ls;do
cat ~/.xfce-desktop-layout > $i
done
cd
# xfdesktop --reload cause it to crash after period of time after. # Workaround: Quit, then (in background) relaunch # seems to be fixed in xfdesktop 4.12... xfdesktop --reload
>Get your desktop in a good layout, then find which config file in ~/.config/xfce4/desktop has it. Copy that one to ~/.xfce-desktop-layout.
>Now, next time you see the issue, just run the script and your desktop will go back to normal.
Source (the last post): ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321773
In case you still have XFCE 4.10, here is the repository https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/xfce-4.12 after you added it just apt update.
I had recently installed Slackware - Current on my main machine, but had numerous dislikes with the new Xfce 4.16. I also experienced what you're dealing with.
I managed to get things mostly how I wanted them in 4.16, but still wasn't happy. I reverted to my Slackware64 14.2 w/ Xfce 4.12.
One of the things I most definitely didn't like about 4.16 was the Client Side Decorations -> CSD. I found that I could disable that annoying crap by following instructions in this link:
https://winaero.com/disable-client-side-decorations-in-xfce-for-open-save-dialog/
I don't remember specifically if this will resolve your issue, but you can give it a shot relatively easily.
Luck with it!
Perhaps not the answer that you're looking, but take a look at FontAwesome, they are not icons per se, but you use as such.
they look awesome (doh!!!) with GenMon and since they are a font, if you switch to a light theme, they'll turn onto a dark variant automagically.
Searching for Xfce on the Arch site does give many packages (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=pkgname&q=xfce&maintainer=&flagged=), I've checked and all the core ones like xfce4-session, xfwm4 and gtk-xfce-engine are installed. Can't comment on drivers. Then again it's Intel graphics, not something that is likely not to work.
Related to bug #14289. Solved with 0.8.7.3. See https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2018-March/000592.html
Updated in Arch 2018-03-28, see https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xfce4-terminal/.
> should I start with an bare bones distribution and install only what I want
That's what I do - Debian Testing netinstall, install only base system, run couple of prepared scripts to add all other packages that I find useful, run another script to update all configs, setup panels, custom colours and wallpapers. I'm even thinking about creating my own preseed.cfg to make it even more automated. Feels like having your own customized distro, except it's Debian with all it's gloryfull community and support.
It will be public, but not on Github (we run our own git server), probably will mirror to sr.ht too.
I will update/comment here when it's published in a halfway useful form, so you should get a notification then.
If you're looking for a simple editor with syntax colouring maybe you should try Atom? https://atom.io
I'm trying it right now and it's very nice and it may look minimalistic as you wanted - https://ibb.co/cEmOmy
xfce4-notifyd, the daemon that provides desktop notifications (e.g. from the browser), has a "do not disturb" feature that, like other desktop environments, prevents notifications from appearing while the feature is enabled. I would like an indicator in my Xfce taskbar that displays the status of this feature & allows me to click it to toggle the status.
Someone took it in their own hands back in 2014. A simple patch for a split view / extra pane where you just press F3 to toggle on / off.
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/split-view-patch-available-for-thunar.html
I currently like the versioning of the three most popular Linux desktop environments:
GNOME - 3;
Xfce - 4;
KDE - 5.
Until GNOME switches to version 4 (but probably they won't, as they are switching version 40 in February), and KDE switches to 6, Xfce is not switching to 5
There are close ones, but no cigar. Created your own, if you need one.
https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/Feedindicator
tickr you can run on top of your panel. You can even open up to the width of your panel. It looks like a panel extension that way.
I tested opening a random .tga image with the "Access Prompt" application (it had a shield icon similar to your screenshot, but different icon theme), and then checked ps aux to see what ran. (No GUI popped up when trying to run Access Prompt)
The binary was at /usr/libexec/gcr-prompter owned by the package gcr on Fedora. Seems to be a GNOME application for displaying certificates and accessing key stores.
I use Compiz+Xfce and I love the way tiling works. And for people who don't want Compiz, you can get the same behavior with QuickTile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF76DELEpjM
Compiz gets dismissed nowadays, but if you can look past the special effects, you'll see that it has a lot of really good window management tools. I'd love to see more of them ported to Xfce. If you want to do work on this, I would do it as a separate standalone application like QuickTile. Xfce is written in C, and unless you've done a lot of work in C before, you're going to be frustrated and discouraged.
Not to make you change things, if you are now happy. But there are options like tint2 that you might consider as well as plank. See: https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/-/wikis/home
Someone already answered you so I will just say I know the frustration of trying to figure out something that's sooo basic the information is nowhere to be found. :S And if you are interested in fun terminal prompts, check out the zsh shell which has easily installable themes that do all kinds of neato things. (And many other advantages which may or may not be or interest to you.) It is probably already installed, just type exec zsh. to get back to bash, type exit or close the window.
Or if you want to stay on bash (which yes, you are using bash inside the terminal; it will be the same if you use gnome or kde or whatever) I have heard https://starship.rs/ is good.
I've been searching forums for solutions, and ran across one that gave me a hint. It started with, "If you have too much stuff..."
The only reason that would make a difference is if everything on the applications' menu is being loaded into memory. I tested this by only clicking the button once. Then waited two minutes and clicked it again. This time, the menu opened and was fully functional.
I had the Cinnamon desktop on the laptop prior to this. The menu worked as soon as it was clicked. Then xfce isn't designed to be as heavy on resources. And, it isn't. I've monitored both using Bashtop.
Unless I find a better answer, I'll believe the only way to make it quicker would be to have less stuff in the menu. It's a small quirk. I can live with it.
Have you accessed the forum discussion? Have you read our documentations?
That will answer = what to vote for and whether if we are trustable with privacy.
(Note: Whonix is GPLv3 , so its libre OS. Code is available you can check it yourself, Also you can build Whonix from scratch)
Enjoy yourself with whatever subject you like:
>Any tips/plugins to improve XFCE experience?
You play and learn. Get your own experience and enjoy. Play and fiddle with all settings. People are afraid of breaking things if you fiddle much. Well that's another experience is fixing things after you break something.
What experience are you looking for? How are you using your computer system? Which Linux distro are you using?
I'm currently using MX-16. It's a Debian Stable(Jessie) distro and it's default is Xfce. I really like what they done with Xfce. So I'm enjoying the defaults mostly.
> It seems awfully complicated to set up, this doesn't seem like the kind of task that should be this difficult to accomplish
Well but it isn't at all. Not sure what you are trying to do.
All you have to do is to install conky:
sudo apt install conky conky-all
And then you can change/create the theme by editing the hidden file .conkyrc that should be in your home directory, you ca literally just chose a theme from the official repo and just copy paste to your config file if you don't want to write your own. THEMES
Before I forget, I also recommend that you add conky to your start up applications so it is always running when you turn on your pc.
Right now, besides GenMon (as suggested) I'm also having a blast using FontAwesome as icons for the few launchers I have on the Panel.
They look rather sober and minimal, IMHO.
Also, if you haven't already, take a look at r/unixporn and r/UsabilityPorn, there are some really tweaked setups on those subreddits (specially the first one).
Catfish, Thunar, XFCE4 Terminal (in quake mode). The panels, and quite a few of the plugins for it (weather, clock, system tray, sound, notifications, whisker menu). And basically all of the system utilities (ie, settings manager, color pallette, etc.).
IMO - This seems like a silly question. The other applications are generally shipped with XFCE, but are generally not seen as part of the desktop environment, and as such are frequently swapped out by distributors in order to provide a consistent set of applications across desktop environments, or because they feel application X is better than application Y.
In large, the XFCE developers don't really look at anything beyond the desktop environment itself as being part of the core of XFCE, see: https://xfce.org/about
A cursory search for xfce "failure to launch shortcut" didn't turn up much - and that related to programs actually missing. As the fullscreen option is part of xfwm (or isn't it?), I think that can't be the problem here. If nobody here comes up with a solution, you could try the Xfce forums.
> 14.04 is a LTS release so it is not EOL. https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life > > Long Term Releases are supported for 5 years. > > 14 + 5 ==> 19 so Trusty is not EOL until April of 2019
I was just broadcasting Simon answer :D https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2017/04/07/releases-releases-releases-part-2/#comment-900
A great choice! This has become my favorite as of late.
Whether or not that was the intent, the SkeuOS theme is a decent imitation of the old Milk theme for Mac, which I still think is the best looking UI I've ever seen on any device, ever.
This week is an excellent time to help with translations! You can look up the projects here: https://www.transifex.com/tag/xfce/ and join at https://www.transifex.com/organization/xfce/. Not sure who the contact point for Spanish translations is though.
Any error messages when you launch FF in Terminal firejail firefox?
I used to have a warning message about download folder, but it didn't cause any problems. I made the message vanish after editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file and changing
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/" to
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
Insert your actual downloads folder name.
Another thing. Old firejail has been compromised recently. Uninstall it and download a new version https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/ and install it.
Yet another approach if the above fail. Backup your ~/.mozilla folder just in case. Then refresh your Firefox. In the address bar type: about:supportand in the upper right corner click Refresh Firefox button. You won't lose your browsing history or saved passwords or bookmarks. But you'll lose all your addons and you'll need to reinstall them.
Not from what I can tell. It uses a program called catfish.
However, you can set a shortcut to run command to run query catfish with a string from the whisker menu. So far I have !cat <<search string>> to use this command: /usr/bin/catfish %u. But it only gets me part of the way. It opens catfish and enters the search string, but does not actually execute the search. So, I still have to press enter in catfish. I still haven't figured out that last piece.
My other search command work really great, such as:
a google search with !g <<search string>> that uses this command: exo-open --launch WebBrowser https://www.google.com/#q=%u
a bing image search with !bi <<search string>> that uses this command: exo-open --launch WebBrowser https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%u
It's a pretty cool feature I too often forget when I am on the command line.
FYI, it can also bulk rename:
Audio Tags (plugin) Insert Date or Time Insert or Overwrite characters Numbering Remove Characters Search & Replace characters Convert to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Camelcase or Sentence case
It is a bug reported by a Xfce developer months ago and not fixed. The Xfe file manager is more modern, silent and has more features.
It is available at least in Debian.
Bunch of comments.
There is a split view patch for Thunar, which I don't think has been released yet, but you could start here: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/split-view-patch-available-for-thunar.html
Not sure if you're using xfce4-notifyd or notify-osd. The Xfce daemon doesn't support not being shown in fullscreen, as far as I know. It should be easy to implement though, you could ask for the feature on http://bugzilla.xfce.org/ or code it yourself :-)
There is an option to choose where windows appear, in "Window Manager Tweaks" -> Placement.
Wrt. the power manager, I do sometimes have this issue, but I believe it's the video apps not always giving the hint that the computer is not inactive.
Xfce.org is not down!
Yeah, the only integrated clients that are worth using are Evolution and Thunderbird, and though I've used them both extensively and they both have many things to like, they have things that drive me crazy too.
Using Geary or Mailspring (or even Claws, when it comes to calendaring) require that you use multiple apps to accomplish PIM features. Gnome Calendar and Gnome Contacts work decently enough in a GTK ecosystem. On the QT side, things are a bit more bleak, at least until Kube comes to fruition.
Mailspring is a Nylas N! derivative: https://getmailspring.com/