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nehsa

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Registered: 2003-01-14

Posts: 159

Three questions about XFCE4

I love XFCE.  I have three questions though:

1st)  I am trying to add some launchers to the bottom and was wondering if people knew any good ways to find icons?  Some (gaim and xscreensaver) put there icons in /usr/share/pixmaps which is nice.  Others like, firefox, bluefish, xmms ect I can't find anywhere?  Were they somewhere else or do I have to go online and try to find them?

2nd)  Does anyone know of it's possible to get a program to not show up on the taskbar?  I am using a really small monitor so things like XMMS take up space.

3nd)  How do you change defaults?  If I try to open a url it tries to load mozilla.

Thanks!

Skee

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From: Bucuresti, Romania

Registered: 2004-10-29

Posts: 23

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Re: Three questions about XFCE4

1. Not sure how this works, but when I type "firefox" in the icon name field, it somehow discovers it and displays it there. This works both in the panel and the menu. I only have 2 or 3 icons that don't show up this way.

3. Set the BROWSER variable to your favourite browser

export BROWSER=mozilla-firefox

aias

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Registered: 2004-06-28

Posts: 39

Re: Three questions about XFCE4

1) I remember seeing Icons also listed in the share folder of gnome.  I think it's something like /opt/gnome/share/icons/48x48? or something like that.  you could always download icon packs from art.gnome.org and put them in your  ~/.icons directory and tell xfce to load them directly from there.
2) don't really know.   I've always used the iconbox and liked it.  but don't how effective it is on a small screen.  also, you could open things in a different workspace and tell the taskbar to show things only from that particular workspace.  this way you can put the things you don't want to interact with constantly in a different workspace and have them going in the background while you work.

nehsa

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Registered: 2003-01-14

Posts: 159

Re: Three questions about XFCE4

Thanks for the quick responses both of you.  I don't understand the ""export BROWSER=mozilla-firefox"" part though, where do I put that?

aias

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Registered: 2004-06-28

Posts: 39

Re: Three questions about XFCE4

append it to your  ".bashrc" file in your home directory.

rosh

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Registered: 2004-09-01

Posts: 58

Re: Three questions about XFCE4

I have been looking for icons as well, and depending on what you have installed, these are places to look:

/usr/share/icons
/opt/gnome/share/icons
/opt/kde/share/icons/{theme}/{size}/{type}
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/icons
/opt/mozilla/lib/thunderbird/icons

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Three questions about XFCE4

XFCE4 icons: /opt/xfce4/share/icons