[plug] File browser

[Timothy White]

On 6/11/06, Adam Davin <byteme-its at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:28:35 +0800
> "Daniel Foote" <freefoote at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Currently I am using xffm the XFCE4 (XFCE4 is my WM) file manager.
> <snip>
> > Sounds like you're running an old version of XFCE then.
> >
> > Debian Unstable over the last few weeks has been packaging a SVN
> > version of XFCE4 currently marked as "4.3.90.1 (Xfce 4.4 BETA1)".
> >
> > XFCE4 was always good... as was XFCE3 before it... but the newer one
> > is great. Same lightweight WM that we're used to, but on steroids (I
> > run it on everything here from a PII 400MHz/64MB RAM through my
> > AMD64/1024MB RAM box (4 machines total). Feels almost identical in
> > terms of speed across these machines).
>
> I agree, I was running it on about a 600mhz processor with 512mb ram, I
> think I now have it on a PIV 2g with 1g ram but it was very usable
> before, as it is now..
>
> > It now has unlimited panels and you can do what you like with them
> > (ie: full monitor width, span all monitors, etc). It also comes with
> > "Thunar", the replacement filemanager for XFFM. It's a lot like
> > Nautilus - but lighter. (Still a bit more work to go, but quite usable
> > right now - I also wasn't really a fan of XFFM. The command line still
> > does 99% of stuff for me, though).
>
> I moved from Enlightenment a while ago to XFCE4, I still miss the
> different wallpapers for different virtual desktops, this allowed me to
> remember "where" I was in the list of desktops without referring to the
> pager (which is on autohide). The Pagers for "E" which gave live
> desktop snapshots were great too. E had a couple of issues when I moved
> to a Xinerama desktop though and started hiding windows that popped up
> or shrinking them to as small as they can go etc..
>
> > Other features of note in the new version:
> > - Built in multimonitor wallpaper spanning (not too many window
> > managers or proprietary OSs with that out of the box).
> > - XFCE can for the first time have icons on the desktop - either
> > minimized programs, nothing, or file icons (from ~/Desktop/). I've got
> > rather used to not having desktop icons, so that doesn't make much
> > difference for me.
> > - Complete, smooth, simple session management - instead of manually
> > running various XFCE processes from my ~/.xsession, now I just run
> > "startxfce4" (from ~/.xsession) - and that handles starting everything
> > else - including starting Xscreensaver. I'm not used to running with
> > session management, which gave me a surprise this morning when I
> > logged back into my desktop PC after yesterdays update.
>
> My session stuff broke a while ago, I am not sure what happened, it
> still remembers my sessions, but I seem to have multiple sessions
> running or something as I have to quit, and then quit again to get XFCE
> to shut down. I know its something to do with my config directory
> because if I delete it and start again, it all works fine. I just don't
> want to go through my preferences again at the moment so I am putting
> up with it.

If you don't mind setting up your session again (not everything, just
the running applications), remove files from ~/.cache/sessions/ and
it'll clean it up. You can poke around if you want, remove the
sessions you don't need, and edit the session you want. Of course,
there is also now a session manager that does some funky stuff.

Tim
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