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problem with panel size

#46 Post by cf13 »

First of all JB4x4 thanks a lot for your work. :D

I have a little problem with the panel size. When I'm trying to lower the size, only the icons get smaller, not the panel itself.

Another thing is that the gtk-theme of puppy gets over the xfce theme. I noticed with firefox and the puppy menu list.

I also need a tip for xfce taskbar, when I open an applications the window in the taskbar appears in the left of a previously opened applications, and I want it to appear in the right, lilke in jwm or windows.

Also, I've noticed that installing with a pet package is maybe a little bit faster than with the .sfs. I have 128 ram and a good swap partition, and I also load openoffice .sfs. Anyone notice it too?

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#47 Post by Béèm »

In fact I attached toe Xfce sfs to an installation where EZpup (icewm) was done (in the pup_safe)

In order to gain some free memory I un-installed the EZpup.
But now when I start, I am in JWM and I don't see how I can switch to the Xfce desktop.
However, the filemanager Tunar is there, as is the Mousepad.

I tried xwin startxfce, but to no avail.

How can I start Xfce?
(in fact before un-installing EZpup, I had to go in start an choose the option: Start Xfce, which brought me the desktop then.)
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#48 Post by seaside »

Béèm wrote: I tried xwin startxfce, but to no avail.

How can I start Xfce?
(in fact before un-installing EZpup, I had to go in start an choose the option: Start Xfce, which brought me the desktop then.)

Try "xwin startxfce4"


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#49 Post by Béèm »

Great seaside.
I tried xwin startxfce, but didn't know the 4 had to be added.
Works.
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Re: problem with panel size

#50 Post by floborg »

cf13 wrote: I have a little problem with the panel size. When I'm trying to lower the size, only the icons get smaller, not the panel itself.
Me too, but I found that the fspace monitor was the problem. It's font prevents the whole panel from shrinking once it gets down to a certain size. At first, I just decreased the font size, but I found a better appraoch. Just find the fspace.sh file and delete the line that echos "Free." This way, it will just show the # of MB remaining and will allow you to shrink the panel.
I also need a tip for xfce taskbar, when I open an applications the window in the taskbar appears in the left of a previously opened applications, and I want it to appear in the right, lilke in jwm or windows.
You're not alone on this one.

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#51 Post by JB4x4 »

The order of the task bar puzzles me too. I have noticed on my own installation, some apps open to the right of existing ones and some left.

After some googling, it appears this is a known XFCE bug that hasn't been looked at much.

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#52 Post by JB4x4 »

NEW UPDATES----

Please see first post.

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Re: problem with panel size

#53 Post by polygonal »

cf13 wrote:
Another thing is that the gtk-theme of puppy gets over the xfce theme. I noticed with firefox and the puppy menu list.
That happens to me, too. I cannot find a way to change the puppy default look of tabs, radio buttons, and drop-down list no matter what theme I tried to put on. None of the theme engines I tried did the trick, and the bitmap based themes change nothing at all. Does anyone know how to fix it?

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#54 Post by floborg »

JB4x4 wrote:NEW UPDATES----

Please see first post.

JB
They just released Xfce 4.4.2.

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#55 Post by JB4x4 »

As I saw... Just thought I should finish this version up, so I can apply what I've learned in the future :)

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#56 Post by Béèm »

I can't download the 4.41d.sfs
I get some weird message from a netfirms site.
Is there another place to get that sfs?
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#57 Post by Caneri »

I just checked it and seems ok now..I was overloaded for a bit this morning

oops..I see what you mean now...holdon...

ok..fixed. It will work now..sorry 'bout that.
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#58 Post by floborg »

PROBLEM: You have a small monitor and use Opera's Fit to Width function all the time. The problem is that the default Xfce keyboard shortcuts map ctrl+F11 to the selection of workspace #11. Who has that many workspaces?

SOLUTION: Add a new keyboard shortcut profile (Settings => Window Manager Settings => Keyboard Tab). The new one will start with all of the default mappings. Scoll down to Workspace 11. Double-click the entry and select No Shortcut on the dialogue that pops up. You can now use ctrl+F11 to take advantage of Opera's Fit to Width shortcut. Do the same for any other mappings that conflict with the shortcuts of your apps.

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#59 Post by Béèm »

Thanks Caneri, downloading now.
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#60 Post by floborg »

How do I get the panel/desktop to cover up the little gray square in the lower, right-hand corner of the screen?

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#61 Post by Béèm »

I bet the tray is positioned now in the middle.
You can go into the configuration of XFCE and place the panel to the right.
Don't remember if it is panel one or panel two.
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#62 Post by floborg »

Béèm wrote:I bet the tray is positioned now in the middle.
You can go into the configuration of XFCE and place the panel to the right.
Don't remember if it is panel one or panel two.
I only have one panel and it is full-width.
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#63 Post by stevenbinion »

Thanks for the work you have done with XFCE4 and making it easier for us to add this great window manager to puppy, It's by far my favorite WM. I'll be watching for your conversions of XFCE 4.4.2

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#64 Post by Cur Dog »

I have just installed the Xfce-4.4.1.pet on a clean Photon install. The system boots with icewm except that there is no background image or icons but all other functions are working. I can right click and go to window manager and click restart with Xfce and the Xfce manger will boot. I would like to know if there is a way that Xfce will boot automatically?

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#65 Post by trapster »

Puppy should remember the last wm used and boot to it. Just make sure you do a "normal" shutdown and not force the poweroff.
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