Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xfce (10 mails)

["Rupert Horstkötter" <rhorstkoetter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

2008/7/2 Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm a noob when it comes to the ways of XFCE, I'm predominantly a GNOME
> user although I do also use KDE.  I would love to use XFCE on my eeePC,
> and also hopefully create a usb image for others to use.  I do have a
> few questions with this in mind:
>
> 1. As the standard eeePC is very limited on space I would really like
> to hear of people's recommendations for applications.  Ideally I would
> like to have as close to a full blown desktop providing all the
> functionality that I would see in a full sized laptop.  I think the
> basics for this list are - RSS reader, IRC client, IM client, e-mail
> client, calendar client, VoIP client, webcam client, Office apps (Word
> Processor/Spreadsheet/Presentation/PDF), Media client (video and audio),
> codecs, network management, Image viewer.  I appreciate that some of
> these are provided by default XFCE and also the Community repo.
Zenwalk Linux has a smoothly integrated Xfce desktop. Their philosophy
is to have one application for one task - pretty lean and productive
system. Maybe you could get some inspiration there
http://www.zenwalk.org

> 2.  Does anyone have a link to or could they provide a KIWI control
> file for creating an XFCE live CD or similar?  Obviously having the
> application list first would help in the creation of the xml.
Nope. But I'd be very interested in this as well - especially in an
USB image. I'm unfortunately extremely busy atm, but I'll think about
it later on.

> 3. If I choose to use NetworkManager under XFCE how would I enable it
> to start automatically when I log in? At the minute I have to run
> nm-applet manually to be able to get my network status and connect to
> wireless APs.
Maybe this not what you're looking for, but what if you'd use Xfce's
autostart function? Simply place the nm-applet.desktop into
~/.config/autostart (if I remember right) - there is also a GUI
available for Xfce, similar to GNOME's "sessions".

Hope that helps!

Best,
Rupert

> Many thanks,
>
> Andy
>
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