On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:19:44AM +1000, David wrote: > On 20 July 2013 03:35, Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> wrote: Can't tell if I replied to this or not. No indication of it in mutt. > > > > My apologies if my reply sounded insulting. I didn't intend that. I just > > wanted to correct what seemed to be a misconception on your part. > > Your reply did not sound insulting. :) > It is too easy to have minor misunderstanding in email communication, > so if there's any doubt I always assume good faith. I find unnecessary > hostility is a ridiculous waste of attention. > > > Thanks again for putting me onto the wiki link. > > After using gnome 2 for several years I changed to lxde a few > months ago. I find the lxde project is simpler in ambition, and > that suits me better. I've found that the docs that helped me > most are not hosted on lxde sites, and it took some effort to > find them. Here are the ones that I found useful, which allowed > me to create a gnome-2-like desktop with launch icons in the > top panel (toolbar), and a task switcher at the bottom. > I mention them here in case they might interest you also. > > http://lkubaski.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/adding-lxde-start-menu-and-desktop-shortcuts/ > http://lkubaski.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/understanding-file-associations-in-lxde-and-pcmanfm/ > http://lkubaski.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/restarting-lxde-when-it-freezeshangs/ > http://lkubaski.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/adding-lxde-start-menu-sections/ > http://lkubaski.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/adding-lxde-taskbar-shortcuts/ > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE > http://wiki.debian.org/LXDE > http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox Thanks for these. Except for a couple of them I hadn't run across them in my searches. The wiki.debian.org/Openbox site says to edit shortcuts in the rc.xml file, not the lxde-rc.xml. Looking at them I couldn't tell the difference except that the rc.xml seems more extensive. I'll have to jump on the lxde list and try to find out what's going on. If nothing there, I'll look for an openbox list. Oh well, the hunt goes on. > > and a couple of commands that are sometimes useful: > $ lxpanelctl restart # immediately reloads changed > config files > $ pcmanfm --desktop-pref > > The last one is how you can recover after you've set the lxde desktop > context menu to be the openbox one, and the openbox one > does not give any way to change it back to the lxde one! > > The last point might be relevant to you because you might want to > take a look at the openbox menu. If I recall correctly, it is defined in > the same xml file. It seems that lxde uses the xdg menu system (which > requires .desktop files as lkubaski explains), whereas openbox seems > to use the debian-menu system which is different. Consequently on this > pc I see many more applications available in the openbox menu > than in the lxde menu. I imagine that all of these applications would > be potentially available for you to create (in openbox) hotkeys, and > I'd expect these hotkeys to work in lxde, even though you can't necessarily > see those applications in the lxde menus. But, I haven't tried this myself, > because I use launch icons here, not hotkeys. > > Anyway, good luck with lxde! > > Regards > David -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped Homeland Security agents who fail to see the humor in Doctor Strangelove
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