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 […]
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
OR
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 […]
I struggled for a about an hour today with S-kp-home trying to bind it to something that would work properly in emacs (i.e select the text between cursor and start of line) before I figured out that although the problem manifested itself in Emacs, it is really due to the way Xwindows maps the Shift+Home/End… […]
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 – […]
For those of you wondering how to make Fedora Linux boot into text mode – here’s how to disable the graphics boot/login screen:
If you are running an older distribution you need to edit the file /etc/inittab (must be root) and change
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
If you […]
Usually this problem means that the var XDG_DESKTOP_DIR got somehow set to $HOME instead of “$HOME/Desktop”…
FIX: Edit the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and fix it:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”
… typically this file should look like this:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=”$HOME/Download”
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=”$HOME/Templates”
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=”$HOME/Public”
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=”$HOME/Documents”
XDG_MUSIC_DIR=”$HOME/Music”
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=”$HOME/Pictures”
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=”$HOME/Videos”
It may sound like a dumb question, since X-CD-Roast is a GUI tool for writing files and images, but it’s logic is so user-unfriendly and unnatural that in reality it’s not at all simple to create a CD or DVD from ISO using this app.
Ok, so how do you write an ISO image […]
This was something which I found to be quite annoying on the Xfce Desktop Environment version 4 (4.4.3), it probably is the same for some other Xfce versions too…
The XFCE Window Manager defines the so called global Window shortcuts, meaning that when this key-combo shortcut is pressed, no matter where (from which application), the […]
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