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stifiling wrote: yes the permissions are all taken care of. sorry about the inconvenience.

No worries, these things take time. It's not an inconvenience at all. Thanks for all your hard work to give us XFCE,

Stifiling, the settings manager is missing some categories (see screen shot below). It seems that personal and hardware .directories are missing from /usr/share/desktop-directories. I copied them from one of the old sfs's and I'll edit this sfs later. Other than that,no issues so far.

rg66 wrote:Stifiling, the settings manager is missing some categories (see screen shot below). It seems that personal and hardware .directories are missing from /usr/share/desktop-directories. I copied them from one of the old sfs's and I'll edit this sfs later. Other than that,no issues so far.

thanks for finding that fix, rg66.

Here are some handy right click custom actions for thunar installed with a script, customized for archpup with xfce..

Rc-actions are from Saluki/Carolina, it includes: create symbolic link, create tar.gz, gzip file(s), permanently remove and show full path.

Calculate md5sum: allows for multiple files an copy/paste.

Copy to and move to: copy and move files and folders

Make executable: make files executable

Uca.xml must be put in /root/.config/Thunar first, unless you have already made a custom action which will generate it.

*Make the script executable and run it. Restart thunar for them to show up in right click menu and restart X to get them to show on the desktop.

the mate desktop was rather difficult to put together because it isn't officially supported by Arch Linux. According to 'my' tests though...it's stable. if there's any problems with it....please report.

Hello stifiling, I'm testing mate desktop and it is really great , maybe even better than the xfce
Boot without save file(pfix=ram), on start it uses only 130 MB of RAM
One minor problem - some icons in the menu are missing, and reason is this; on boot rc.sysinit will launch .. but only if /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache does not exist, for next version you may want to delete that file

simargl wrote:Hello stifiling, I'm testing mate desktop and it is really great , maybe even better than the xfce
Boot without save file(pfix=ram), on start it uses only 130 MB of RAM
One minor problem - some icons in the menu are missing, and reason is this; on boot rc.sysinit will launch

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gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor

.. but only if /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache does not exist, for next version you may want to delete that file

ok i'll do that. and i was thinking the 'exact' same thing. never thought twice about messing with mate, because xfce is so nice. but when i decided to try it out i got to thinking "Wow, mate is really nice." It seems to be just as fast as xfce though it's bigger. can't say the same for KDE. KDE is a big floppy jalopy, but also nice if you got the processor for it.

i'm not crazy about Marco window manager with mate....so I've got mines mix and matched using xfwm4-tiling window manager. so i can tile the open windows by dragging them to the sides.

Many thx stifiling, mate here is really GREATE.
I've test it for a day and it work well without any crash.
Really a strong desktop.

Stifling

How easy is archpup + Xfce for a novice linux user?

Does for example wireless work out of the box?

I don't know if you tried Carolina puppy? If so how do you rate ease of use between the two?

Hi, I am using stiflings' MATE desktop with Archpup 13.2.2 and I am having trouble getting a screen shot of my desktop. When I press the PrintScreen key on my keyboard, I get an error message saying that mate-screenshot cannot be found. I'm wondering whether I need download a different program to take a screenshot.
@Scooby-Try Archpup with any of the window managers. I tried XFCE before MATE (I prefer MATE or OpenBox) and I can tell you that wifi (for me) worked out of the box. I haven't tried Carolina, but give Archpup a try first.

How come that Grub4DOS is included in Openbox version but not MATE (I haven't checked for XFCE). Or am I blind?

Never mind. I found a solution myself.

Sorry all, I've been messing around with AlphaOS lately and there's things about it that makes it work better than ArchPup. It does everything that ArchPup can do plus more. So i'm planning to do the desktops on that one.

I know there's been a lot of frequent changes but we should be stabilized there. Pacman works in it. Frisbee works correctly, the kernel is able to be changed without having that one issue where the modules wasn't loading, and wine appears to work better also.