On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:11 PM, David Dooling wrote: > Simply installing gnome-terminal should made xfce4 spawn it by > default when > you click the terminal icon (it is handled through the > /etc/alternatives structure and gnome-terminal has a higher priority > than xterm). To increase the size of the font in gnome-terminal, just > use the menus: View -> Zoom In.
That sounds like a good solution. I'll give it a try later. > You should be able to install firefox using > apt-get/aptitude/synaptic/dselect (when you are installing > gnome-terminal). Once you have that installed, you can simply > right-click on the panel and select Add new item -> Launcher. Then > enter the location and icon for firefox. It may even be easier than that. I did an apt-get install and followed your instructions. Then I noticed that I have two icons on the panel which both start FireFox. I'll have to play with xfce a bit more to get comfortable with it. > If you want to do it more automatically, doing the above adds a > section like the one below to > ~/.xfce4/xfce4rc: > > <Group> > <Control id="-2" popup="0"> > <Command term="0" sn="0">/usr/bin/firefox</Command> > <Tooltip>Web Browser</Tooltip> > <Icon id="-1">/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png</Icon> > </Control> > </Group> > > You could create a standard xfce4rc with this (and other stuff in it) > and put it in /etc/skel/.xfce4. Sweet! Thanks, Dave. That's exactly the kind of examples I'm looking for. Will give that a shot. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
