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gaah

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2003-09-12

Posts: 124

Desktop icons in xfce4

This should be possible, but how??? I read in their forum that I should startup rox instead of xfdesktop in xinitrc, but it didn't work. I tried to do it in at least two different xinitrc since it didn't say which one... And I started thinking, the "rox" package for arch, is it the whole rox, or just the rox-filer? If this isn't the problem, how can I do this?

Dreameen

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Re: Desktop icons in xfce4

You can add <whatever_you'd_like_to_start_at_boot> to a 'script' located in ~/Desktop/Autostart.

The script may look like this:

#!/bin/bash
rox -p=Default

You can then add any program you like to start like that:

#!/bin/bash
rox -p=Default&
gkrellm&
<whatever_you_like>

Hope that helps.

gaah

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2003-09-12

Posts: 124

Re: Desktop icons in xfce4

I didn't write it to the file but I did as root:

killall xfdesktop
rox -p=Default&

in a terminal and I got some icons on my desktop! Three other problems accurd now... How do I change the background? How do I change the fonts to be used? (and will those two setting affect the standard rox-filer too? I don't want that if it's doable...) And three, all minimized applications shows an icon on the desktop, how can I get rid of that?