XFCE4 4.2.3.2 - Window Manager in less than 1 mb !

[puppian]

How can I add new gtk themes?
Do I need this?
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2907

[MU]

yes.

[Cerryn]

Thanks for the help. I finally figured out why I couldn't run XFCE. I was running it in XVesa. I tried it on a new installation that I setup with Xorg and is working flawlessly. and is gorgeous too!

[kitty]

A new version of Xfce is relaesed: it includes a brand new file manager: Thunar. Would that make a sense to compare:

*the size and RAM/CPU requirements of RoxFiler + JWM
*the size and RAM/CPU requirements of reduced version of xfce including Thunar.

[klhrevolutionist]

When I add applets to the panel after reboot they do not appear. Why does it not save my changes ?

I did manually add the entries to the /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/contents.xml

And this seems to work, but should'nt the file update itself ?

[Pizzasgood]

Because it's mean. I added many things then ran into that and had to re-add and re-configure them all. What you need to do is right-click the grabby-thing with dots on the left or right, then select "exit". Then when you come back it should have it saved. If not, you might need to fiddle around with the session section of the configuration. Also, the "restart" option might work too, I don't know.

[Béèm]

Nice, works on puppy2a 24may06

But, do the little applets like nini-volume selector and freemem still settle in the system tray?

I don't see them anymore.

[Pizzasgood]

They aren't compatible as far as I know. XFCE has its own plugins already, though.

http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de/
That's the site with the "goodies" for XFCE, including but not limited to plugins.

I don't know anything about writing them, but they have information availible so it may be possible to port the JWM ones over to XFCE.

[Dougal]

When I add applets to the panel after reboot they do not appear. Why does it not save my changes ?

I did manually add the entries to the /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/contents.xml

And this seems to work, but should'nt the file update itself ?

This was discussed in the past:
xfce uses a contents.xml.active file for your changes during a session and saves it when you finish the session- but only if you finish it properly (with the "quit" option, which in puppy [du to the lack of sudo] only allows to exit to prompt).

I have posted in the past special shutdown and reboot scripts to use with xfce to avoid that problem.

My xfce dotpup contains such scripts and all the menu entries refer to them.

[Tailsfan]

How do you set up XFCE to work with Xvesa, I can't run Xorg with mine.

[wow]

Try with 24 bit color dephs.

[Dougal]

You can also try opening a terminal and typing "xrandrshell", then selecting the resolution you want from the list it gives you.

[NoobieDoobieDo]

Everytime XFCE loads the resolution is 320x200 or something really small like that and I have to use xrandshell to change the resolution (which is really hard).

Even though I tell it to save the settings it never does, this in turn makes XFCE more or less unusable for me.

[Dougal]

Everytime XFCE loads the resolution is 320x200 or something really small like that and I have to use xrandshell to change the resolution (which is really hard).

Even though I tell it to save the settings it never does, this in turn makes XFCE more or less unusable for me.

Have you tried exiting xfce and saving the session? It usually will save the resolution along with the other settings.