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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Some newbie questions (xfce-svn users)

hi my first post on the forum new to arch & got some questions (most not entirely arch related)

my desktop of choice is xfce so getting answers from xfce users would help most. i installed xfce-svn (thx for the repo) but noticed that mousepad (default xfce text editor) is not even on the extra package , nor is a part os any other repo.. where can it be found?

also been looking recommendations for some lightweight & with (preferably) not many gnome dependencies applications, packages currently developed and also maintained on arch:

a pdf viewer
an image viewer
a cd/dvd burner with gui
realplayer
openoffice (installed abiword but gnumeric has tones of gnome dependencies + my effort to install on xfce failed cause of some gnome directory which didnt exist)

thanks in advance for your recommendations

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Some newbie questions (xfce-svn users)

... where can it be found?

AUR  http://aur.archlinux.org/index.php

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Some newbie questions (xfce-svn users)

thanks for the reply

is there a reason ts not included in the prebuilt packages?

after all it is the default xfce text editor..

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There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Some newbie questions (xfce-svn users)

a pdf viewer
an image viewer
a cd/dvd burner with gui
realplayer
openoffice

epdfview for... Well, guess.
mirage / gqview for imageviewing
graveman is pretty good, only lacks cue/bin support
I belive mplayer can play realplayer with the "codecs" package installed
Also, if you use torrents you might want to check out transmission 

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Some newbie questions (xfce-svn users)

a pdf viewer
an image viewer
a cd/dvd burner with gui
realplayer
openoffice

epdfview for... Well, guess.
mirage / gqview for imageviewing
graveman is pretty good, only lacks cue/bin support
I belive mplayer can play realplayer with the "codecs" package installed
Also, if you use torrents you might want to check out transmission 

transmission is banned where i download torrents from so i use azureus at least atm.
i had graveman installed but it didnt detect my drive possibly cause i didnt have the user added to the optical group at the time ?

what about gnumeric? any similar ones besides openoffice?

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There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums.  That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Some newbie questions (xfce-svn users)

If you have problem playing real media files with mplayer, there is a realplayer PKGBUILD in AUR.

About gnumeric: You could check out siag-office. It's in the community repo. It has a spreadsheet (I don't know how it compares with gnumeric) and has no gnome/kde dependencies. There is also a spreadsheet in koffice but it depends on kde stuff.  I don't know any other spreadsheet apps. If you decide to use gnumeric, post the error you're getting.