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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Ever noticed that, when you press enter in response to one of XFCE 4.4's yes/no prompts, nothing happens? Yup, you can't just hit enter for "yes" or esc for "no", you have to click, in XArchiver, Thunar, and everything else made for XFCE. It's a wonderful desktop shell as it is, but I think that it could be much improved by a bit more keyboard-friendliness.

hollywoodb

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Registered: 2003-10-03

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

try hitting <Tab> first... this should cause a button to be selected

Gullible Jones

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Thanks... Still, that is an extraneous keypress. Also if you tell XFWM that popup windows should be automatically raised and selected, it shouldn't be necessary, although it rather obviously is.

postlogic

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Registered: 2005-02-24

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Try posting a suggestion to one of the devs, then.

FUBAR

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Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Thanks... Still, that is an extraneous keypress. Also if you tell XFWM that popup windows should be automatically raised and selected, it shouldn't be necessary, although it rather obviously is.

I know in other WM's the auto focus on new windows is a customizable setting. Not sure if Xfce has it, but it probably does.

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Gullible Jones

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

It has it available as an option, and it does work.

FUBAR

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

You should probably add [Solved] to the thread's subject then.

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Gullible Jones

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

No, because it's not solved... Selecting and raising new windows is the default for XFCE, and when those options are enabled Return -> Okay and Esc -> Cancel still do not work.

FUBAR

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Oh ok, now I get it. The buttons only listen to mouse events, not keyboard events?

How disabled people-unfriendly.

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shadowhand

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/

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Galdona

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Registered: 2006-03-15

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

my one xfce gripe is that maximized windows are not truely maximized, just resized to fit to screen. many, many times a day, when using xfce, i will accidentally resize a "maximized" window with my mouse. hard to believe it has reached version 4.4 with this very obvious... anti-feature.

Gullible Jones

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Ah, my gripe seems to be solved in the latest version.

Galdona's right though, the maximization is indeed bogus...

hollywoodb

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Registered: 2003-10-03

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Never had a problem with maximization.... if you do decide to resize a maxmimzed window xfwm is immediately aware of it.... its not like you can shrink it to 50% screen size and xfwm still thinks it maximized

stavrosg

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

Galdona was implying that a maximised window should not be resisable at all.
One more everyone-has-an-opinion-on matter

Galdona

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Registered: 2006-03-15

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

ok, just like with everything linux, to each his own. i tried xfce, but just because of that one gripe i had, i am back in kde, even if it slower.

Never had a problem with maximization.... if you do decide to resize a maxmimzed window xfwm is immediately aware of it....

well, of course, that is one...advantage, but for me, even if i DONT decide to resize a maxd window, i (accidentally) resize it... much too often for my taste.

for myself, maximization means that the window contents extend all the way to the edges of the screen (this has many usability ramifications). but in xfce the window borders are still there upon "maximization", which does not make sense to me, because the borders' only practical use is resizing the window; if you wanted a non-maxd window, then you "restore" it, right?

ScriptDevil

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Re: My one gripe about XFCE 4.4...

really, if you love your keyboard so much, use RatPoison

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