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Symptom:
– Your default File Manager is e.g. Thunar but Firefox uses Nautilus when saving files which is driving you bananas.
Solution (for XFCE):
1. Firstly make sure that your default Applilcation for that particular mime type (in this case it is the ‘inode/directory’ mime type) is actually setup properly. Open the “Preferred […]
Summary:
To find the PID of a running UNIX/XWindow process:
$ xprop _NET_WM_PID
If that fails:
$ ps -ww -fp <PID>
$ pwdx <PID>
Detailed explanation:
So How can you find the PID (not Window ID!) of a running UNIX/XWindow process?
Method 1 (simple):
$ xprop […]
Using Kdiff3 tool as example action to add to the SendTo menu of Thunar.
Create the following file in ~/.local/share/Thunar/sendto and name it <whatever>.desktop (I named mine ‘kdiff3.desktop’) :
# kdiff3.desktop – Integrate kdiff3 into
# the “Send To” menu.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
TryExec=kdiff3
Exec=kdiff3 %F
Find the files in ~/.local/share/applications
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Download and install lxmed. However lxmed was not designed originally for the XFCE menu and so it does not see some of the menu entries and generally speaking does not always work.
… and why the otherwise awesome XFCE has no standard menu editor out of the […]
Yep, that happens from time to time – you start XFCE and you notice that all the window decorations are lost and your windows look like this:
Luckily fixing this is pretty easy. To get back your window decorations simply delete all the files in ~/.cache/sessions! 🙂 There is also directories in there – […]
