Help me get settled with Xfce

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MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham

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For performance reasons I have moved from kdemod to xfce. I am slowly starting to like xfce and I want to have a long and healthy relationship with it. Please help me get started. I use Arch i686 and my rig is in my siggy.

I installed xfce4, xfce4-goodies, xchat, firefox and xine. Anything else ?
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

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^It would be helpful if you specified clearly what you need.
But here are a few apps i use.

Bluefish/Geany - Lightweight IDE.
GQView/Mirage - Image Viewer.
Sonata/Gimmix - MPD Clients.
 
M

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18 Till I Die............
I surely remember giving the following URL to someone on the IRC channel - *wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps
 
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MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham

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I also installed lxde. Is it good ? I don't think LXDE is very great, but with the exception of OpenBox, its apps rock.

And yes, I installed Graveman! disc burner. It rocks, except for the fact that it can't verify written discs. :mad:
 
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MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham

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OK, LXDE kissed goodbye.
GPicView rocks.
Graveman! rocks.
I use md5sum to verify discs.
Xine-UI is sweet, but is there something better ?
Kazehakase is AWSSOME. Its very light compared to Firefox, but it lacks some features.

HOW do I install THEMES in Xfce ??
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

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Extract the theme file to ~/.themes/ or /usr/share/themes/

Alternatively , you could write a custom action using xarchiver to do it , if you find it irritating to do it manually.
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

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It should be if you extracted properly.

Order shud be
Code: 
~/.themes/<Theme-Name>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

If its like that , the theme will be shown in User Interface Settings.
 
ray|raven

ray|raven

Think Zen.
^They are xfwm4 themes.
They can be set in Settings>Window Manager

Still order persists.
Code: 
~/.themes/<Theme-Name>/xfwm4/<theme-files>
 
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