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Side note: You can move large windows around and off screen so you can see what is hidden by holding down the ALT key while dragging the window. With the ALT key pressed, click anywhere in the window (not the header bar) and drag. The cursor cannot go off the edge of the screen, so you might have to pan twice to see everything.


VVarwick

 

good tip warvick

 

Compositor gives nice effects, but I found that video in VLC was blank. :|

 

Re: How to: get the Linpus XFCE desktop to stay after reboot

With reference to your post on Sep 28, I think I should be able to see a picture when I click on Screenshot-2small.png but nothing happens.
Am I doing something wrong?

Also, I notice not too many others have uploaded screenshots.
Is there a reason why?

Thanks in advance
Stephen

 

For some reason all the uploaded images got erased, I have uploaded and appended a new image to the first post.

 

thanks for the great tuto
finaly i got 'win xp' desktop style

 

I also installed the KDE desktop, and it works good when logged in as root (or if you create a new user while logged in as root in the KDE environment). But the KDE control panel doesn't work, it seems there is some kind of crash. Has anybody had the same experience (and perhaps found a fix?)

Cheers!

 

I wonder is there a way to change the distance between the icons on the desktop and how to remove the "white" background behind the the text? I really like the icons to be size 48 - it's just the right size, but the distance between them is just too big...

 

Got it working nice, this is so much nicer than the Acer mods, what a dis-service to Linux.

http://www.machado-family.com/images/LinpusXFCE.png

Thanks for the info..

Joao

 

Thanks you! nice effort

 

Hey Guys!

First, I'm a total newb to Linux so please bare over with me. I have however managed to tweak this little beauty with the advanced menu.

I tried to run the command-line in the first post but got a warning saying:
"Warning, you are using the root account, you may harm your system"
What I really want is to remove the ash-ugly search-bar only. My desktop is pure and clean and I want my pics to be shown without the disturbance of the dang thing.

Any suggestions people?

Best regards,
HanDerre

 

No worries. I wanted the same appearance also.
Just perform step 3 of the original post, i.e.

3. Disable the Acer search bar.

You will get the warning but the change you are making is a simple change and you can undo it later on if you choose. The change you are making is putting the comment symbol (#) in front of the code and therefore the code (instructions) are ignored by the machine and therefore the acer-search-desktop search bar is not displayed.

As I remember you have to reboot.
Hope this helps.
stephen.

PS Thanks a lot to rjm for originally starting this post and providing these instructions.

 

A big thanks indeed!

I love these adjustments. I'm only having trouble with point 8:

cat > ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/xfdesktoprc

This does nothing for me when I run it in terminal. What am I doing wrong?

 

Not sure why rjm included this step. If you DON'T do it you will have Home, File System, and Trash icons on the desktop which, for me, is not a bad thing. This is just my personal preference, though.

Anyway, you can do the same thing by opening mousepad (or gedit or nano if you have those installed, or vim) and entering the text as specified, and then doing a "Save" operation, navigating to .config/xfce4/desktop in your home directory, then saving the file with the name xfdesktoprc. Or save it anywhere you want and then move it to the desired place.

Another thought -- you should be able to create the file with the touch command:

Code:

touch ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/xfdesktoprc

I'm not on my One right now, so I'm assuming that the touch command is included. Touch is designed to change the timestamp on a file, but if you issue the command

Code:

touch <filename>

it just creates an empty file.

 

Hello capactus-
You're not going to see anything happen.
What you're trying to accomplish is making a file called xfdesktoprc that is located at /.config/xfce4/desktop/
and this file will have the following contents:
[file-icons]
show-filesystem=false
show-home=false
show-trash=false

Here's how I did it on my computer:
Open a terminal session
type in
cat > ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/xfdesktoprc
then hit enter
(cursor moves to next line waiting for your input)
type in or paste the following 4 lines using Enter at the end of each line
[file-icons]
show-filesystem=false
show-home=false
show-trash=false

then ctrl+z to close the editor.
close the terminal.

To see what you did:
open the File Manager
go to /.config/xfce4/desktop/
and you should see the file named xfdesktoprc in the right side window pane
if you dbl-click on that file it will open and you can see the contents.

Hope this helps.
Stephen.

I can figure out what rjm is doing, but I have no idea how he knew to make that file and where it had to be. :shock:

 

In this step you've told the system to make a new file. It won't confirm it nor will it display the new file, it will only give you a text message if there's an error. The next command "mousepad..." opens the file for editing.

"I can figure out what rjm is doing, I have no idea how he knew to make that file and where it had to be."

I'm not making this stuff up, I just compiled some of the known tricks out there into a (for most people) working set of instructions. That particular one came from Jorge, but if you Google xfdesktoprc you'll see it's reasonably well known.

 

I was hoping the above would allow me to show a screenshot, but I don't think so.
Can someone tell me what I need to do?

Thanks in advance
stephen.

 

Thank you guys for helping me out

I will try the above later tonight. I'm sure it will work out fine.

 

You need to upload the pic to a website like photobucket.com or somthing like that.

 

From photobucket:


I also tried using picasa web albums, but could not get the image to display. hhhmmm :?: