On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:56:33 -1000 Jeff Mings <je...@lava.net> wrote:
> Interesting comments. > > I noticed an irritating anomaly in XFCE behavior under Ubuntu > 10.04. I was unable to copy something from the desktop and then paste > it into a sub folder using Thunar, the default file manager. When I > opened the desktop in Thunar and copied from there, the operation > worked. I haven't had the time to look into this problem, but it's on a > machine serving as a sort-of-remote-desktop machine for a few users to > run Thunderbird from whatever location they're at. I like the small > memory / cpu footprint of XFCE. Any idea of a suitable resolution? Thunar got better in version 4.8, but I still don't use it. I use PCmanFM. With both XFCE 4.6 and 4.8 I could not duplicate the problem. I created a folder in Thunar off of the desktop. Dragging some other file to the desktop folder within Thunar worked. Dragging the file directly from the desktop into the new folder I created in Thunar worked. I then did the same using a VNC connection to another machine (which also ran XFCE). It ran as expected. Ubuntu uses version XFCE 4.6 by default. The distributions running 4.6 were Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Lucid. If XFCE acts flakey, what some people do is delete the content of the ~/.cache/sessions directory. That helped me in one instance. If you want to try 4.8, you can add this to your sources.list file: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexx2000/xfce/ubuntu lucid main _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
