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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

xfce4 users please report

i'm thinking of making a switch from gnome to xfce4 and would like to know what file manager, terminal, archive manager (if any) and e-mail client you people are using. i'm asking xfce4 users b/c i'd like to stay gtk if possible.

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: xfce4 users please report

File Manager: ROX-Filer (xffm is confusing as hell)
Terminal: Terminal
Archive Manager: Command-Line (haven't searched around for this yet)
Email Client: Thunderbird

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: xfce4 users please report

I'm the same as elastic dog... when im using xfce

grandmouse

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From: germany, bonn

Registered: 2005-05-14

Posts: 90

Re: xfce4 users please report

file-roller for archives works great with ROX-Filer via drag and drop.

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

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Re: xfce4 users please report

OK,

mail-client: sylpheed-claws(gtk2-version from testing since it is really usable and feels even better that the old gtk1 version), it's the only that configurable GUI client I know. Mainly I'm using muttng now, cuz I need a console program running on the server. The shortcoming of gtk2 sylpheeds is that you're condemende to use MH.

file-manager: ROX - cuz I use it for years, the only nice feature of xffm is the smb browser imho

term: since ALL gtk2 based terms are really memory junkies, I prefer mlterm, which basically has a gtk2 canvas and a gtk2 config-gui, but it uses way less memory, especcially if you run it as a deamon

Archive manager: well, this is where things suck. Sometimes I end up using file-roller(which is heavy gnome) the next in line is midnight commander. Thes are the only apps you can use to browse through your archives. Someone really should write a gtk2 based app for that. Or does onyone know of such a thing? (there is a pygtk based rox-archiver which can be used for zip/unzpping, but not browsing)

neri

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: xfce4 users please report

Files - mc or cli mostly, although I do use xffstab in xffm every now and then. I'll be having a look at xfe sometime soon, adter seeing it in Archie.
Terminal - Eterm, with a nice transparent theme.
Archives - mc or cli again.
Mail - thunderbird.

tom.deb

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From: manchester/UK

Registered: 2005-06-20

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Re: xfce4 users please report

files: gentoo (love dual display)
archives: CLI
term: mlterm
monitoring: gkrellm

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neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

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Re: xfce4 users please report

files: gentoo (love dual display)
archives: CLI
term: mlterm
monitoring: gkrellm

yeah, finally, an mlterm user
go buddy, go

-neri

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: xfce4 users please report

Ditto what elasticdog said, but I sometimes use aterm instead of terminal.  Both work very well, however.

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grandmouse

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From: germany, bonn

Registered: 2005-05-14

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Re: xfce4 users please report

neri wrote:

Archive manager: well, this is where things suck. Sometimes I end up using file-roller(which is heavy gnome) the next in line is midnight commander. Thes are the only apps you can use to browse through your archives. Someone really should write a gtk2 based app for that. Or does onyone know of such a thing? (there is a pygtk based rox-archiver which can be used for zip/unzpping, but not browsing)

xarchive,  a lightweight gtk2 frontend to packer scripts that features tabbed archives.

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

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Re: xfce4 users please report

xarchive,  a lightweight gtk2 frontend to packer scripts that features tabbed archives.

haha, initial release 2005-06-10. So it's not really around for a long time...
Anyway, good to know that it is there. Gotta check it out. Thanks for
pointing me.

-neri

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: xfce4 users please report

File Manager: xffm (i hide everything to make it as simple as possible, works great)
Terminal: rxvt
Archive Manager: cli
Email Client: thunderbird

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: xfce4 users please report

thanks guys! i'll give all these suggestions a whirl when i've got some free time and don't need my box for anything else.

citral

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Registered: 2005-05-07

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Re: xfce4 users please report

file manager: Just switched from xffm to rox, but I use the cli most of the time anyway. Also I use gqview for pictures.
terminal: Terminal (the awesome xfce terminal, the only thing that can beat aterm for xfce)
archive manager (you mean a GUI app for .tgz .zip etc. right?): cli here too
e-mail client: sylpheed-claws GTK2

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keevn7

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From: Lancaster, OH, US

Registered: 2005-06-09

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Re: xfce4 users please report

File Manager: ROX-Filer
Terminal: urxvt
Archive Manager: Archive
Email Client: Thunderbird

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Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: xfce4 users please report

Files: emelfm2
email: sylpheed

codergeek42

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From: Anaheim, CA (USA)

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 90

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Re: xfce4 users please report

File Manager: ROX-Filer
Terminal: urxvt
Archive Manager: Archive
Email Client: Thunderbird

I was using the same setup until I tried GNOME 2.10 and realized that everything I disliked about GNOME in earlier versions was fixed. 

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pomj

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Registered: 2005-05-06

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Re: xfce4 users please report

i'm thinking of making a switch from gnome to xfce4 and would like to know what file manager, terminal, archive manager (if any) and e-mail client you people are using. i'm asking xfce4 users b/c i'd like to stay gtk if possible.

Filemanager: vifm and cli

Shell: Zsh

Terminal: xfce4 Terminal

Mail, browsing, bittorrent, irc :opera

/michael

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: xfce4 users please report

File Manager: ROX-Filer
Terminal: urxvt
Archive Manager: Archive
Email Client: Thunderbird

I was using the same setup until I tried GNOME 2.10 and realized that everything I disliked about GNOME in earlier versions was fixed. 

What did you dislike about GNOME? I've used GNOME for awhile and now find myself somewhat restless with it.

Lowe

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Registered: 2005-07-11

Posts: 89

Re: xfce4 users please report

File manager: nautilus --no-desktop
Archiver:xarchive
Terminal:xfce4 terminal (in pacman as terminal)
Image viewer: gqview

I'm forced to use nautilus because i can't find a file manager with the same features or one that just opens the damn files i tell it to open, rox failed miserably with .ogm and other formats for some reason. xarchive isn't that great either, but it's still 10x better than file roller. file roller = slow as hell.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: xfce4 users please report

Yeah, file-roller sucks. I'm new to rox so I can't comment about your troubles with it.

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: xfce4 users please report

rox failed miserably with .ogm and other formats for some reason.

If you don't already know... you have to set the "run action" in rox.

open rox, right click file to be opened, select / File 'filename' / Set Run Action... / enter the command that opens the file

HTH 

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neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

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Re: xfce4 users please report

Yeah, file-roller sucks. I'm new to rox so I can't comment about your troubles with it.

file-roller has more over a really nasty bug, not showing empty directories in archives. This is especially annoyining since it is known for a couple of month now.

-neri

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: xfce4 users please report

file mgr: rox
term: rxvt or aterm
archive: cli
email: t-bird

hth
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Lowe

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Registered: 2005-07-11

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Re: xfce4 users please report

If you don't already know... you have to set the "run action" in rox.

open rox, right click file to be opened, select / File 'filename' / Set Run Action... / enter the command that opens the file

Sorry i should of went into further detail. When i set the run action for ogm it makes my .txt files open with my media player. If i set the .txt files to my text editor, then when i try to open a ogm it trys to open it with the text editor. Couldn't find a fix so i had no choice but to use nautilus.