On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:17:50 +0100, Ulli Horlacher wrote: >I have heavily configured xfce: keyboard shortcuts, window action, etc >I suppose I have to redo it all with openbox? >(How) Can I replace xfwm4 with openbox and return to xfwm when I am not >happy with it?
Hi, I never tested Xfce4 with another window manager. I completely migrated to openbox without any desktop environment at all. For both, my Ubuntu and my Arch Linux install. For Arch Linux I still have Xfce4 installed. While running a Xfce4 session, for testing purpose you could try running openbox --replace and then xfwm4 --replace they've got different config files, so editing one wndow manager doesn't affect the other one. At the moment I'm running a clean openbox session without Xfce4 or any other desktop environment on an Arch Linux install, so I can launch some Xfce4 menu related apps. If I launch $ xfdesktop or $ xfce4-appfinder the menu entries look ok. You have taken a look at xfce-settings-manager.desktop, but your screenshot seemingly displays multiple exo-mail-reader.desktop entries. What is the content of the link "menus -> ../../../.config/menus​"? I've got .config/menus/, too, but no link in .local/share/applications/ . Consider to backup your home first. Then to add a new user. After that start a default Xfce4 session for that new user and at last to replace the old user's directories .config/menus/ and .local/share/applications/ with content by the default directories of the new user. "Replacing" means that you first move away the old directories with their content. This would affect other desktop environments, too, assuming you should not only use Xfce4, but since you have got a backup and the moved old directories, you could restore them. Don't forget to recursively run "chown" after coping the directories from the new, to the old user. Regards, Ralf -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
