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gdesilva
offlineMember
I have been trying out xfce desktop and must say it looks much nicer than the default openbox setup. I am thinking of making xfce the default instead of openbox but would like to know whether there are any compelling technical reasons why I should stick with openbox.
Thanks.
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
None that I can really think of besides shortcut creation and adding them to the panel.
Few other things I noticed when using XFCE4 with SliTaz 3:
* You need to setup /etc/hosts if your using a non-standard hostname (mine is trixarian and looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost slitaz trixarian
* You cannot eject CD/DVDs from the drive using the eject button. You must right click them and click eject. It throws an error otherwise. You can fix the bug in the exo code and recompiling it. You can read more about it @ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=329100
* The Window Manager shortcut keys aren't properly set up. You'll have to set it to what you want.
* Thunar-archive-plugin needs XArchiver to work properly. XArchiver also needs a missing file dependency to work properly. You can grab it @ http://trixarian.net/downloads/unzip-6.0.tazpkg
That's pretty much all that comes to mind. Oh btw, SliTaz uses a mix of LXDE tools with Openbox. It's not just Openbox that's running ;)
monte
offlineMember
My apology.
I am new and cannot find the post question button, therefore had no alternative but to interrup because I want to ask Trixar_za a non related question.
I tried very hard to install flash and downloaded your firefox-4.0.
can you teach me how to delete and add a directory ?
if it is not proper way to cut in, please ignore my post.
monte
ms3811
offlineMember
@monte, the link to create a new post is located between the lines "Latest Discussions" & "Please Read This Before Posting!", where it says "Topic - Add New »". Click on the "Add New »" to start a new post.
To install packages, you can start the Slitaz Package Manager (usually under Slitaz Menu --> System Tools, although I can't see it my menu for some reason). This will give you a nice GUI to manage packages. Alternatively,
To install firefox, as root, type in a terminal:
$tazpkg get-install firefox
The current version listed in the Slitaz (cooking) repos is firefox-8.0.1. If you are using stable, you may see a different version.
To install flash, as root, type in a terminal:
$tazpkg get-install get-flash-plugin
then,
$get-flash-plugin
(the second command 'get-flash-plugin' may not be necessary since I think the latest get-flash-plugin script automatically does that for you.)
In your last question "can you teach me how to delete and add a directory ?", are you referring to creating/deleting directories in Linux? If so, the commands are (executed in a terminal):
$mkdir directoryname (creates a directory)
$rmdir directoryname (deletes a directory, empty only)
$rm -r directoryname (deletes a directory and all it's contents including files and sub-directories)
monte
offlineMember
@ms3811, thank you so much for your response, even when the question was asked in a non-related topic forum.
I was going to give up, and you gave me the exact answers.
I missed the topic-add new button, paying not to much attention to it.
to report on my mistake, I must have had a bad installation to begin with, and I typed the correct tazpkg commands, but no response.
after a long time, I gave up on the program and decided to once more re-install it again with a freshly downloaded iso.
then, it's up and running.
once again, thank you very much.
monte
ps I want to mark this link solved, but don't know how.
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
It's not your topic, so you can't mark it as solved ;)
@ms I think monte is refering to my firefox-4.0 package that can be upgraded to the newest one. It explains how to install it on my site and I've explained how to install it on these forums several times, so I didn't want to repeat it here.
@monte Google Linux command line commands for beginners and read up on the links that pop up. You'll be glad you did because the cli is very powerful and a semi-requirement for using Linux
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
Probably saw it mentioned on the forum somewhere. Some people read through the forum threads a bit before signing up and trying to make a thread themselves - I did atleast.
monte
offlineMember
I am in asia, now is early morning.
thank you all for your help and explanation.
the bad installation made some of my tazpkg commands non-responsive leading to the question of how to add or delete directories.
the adding on flash is quick tricky to beginners on version 3.0, what I wanted to share was that the file libflashplayer.so had to be added on manually to firefox/plugins, and creating firefox/plugins was not allowed in my case even with the correct command.
so I read about Trixar_za'firefox 4.0 and tried that as a last resort. But still cannot get any further.
Therefore I registered as a member on this forum, hoping to solicit some help, but was not able to find the posting question button, the reason was my carelessness. I looked at the title page of the forum and treated the title bar as the frame of title table where one will find the columns labelled as topic, posts, last poster and freshness, being not paying much attention to the add new following the word topic.
I will follow Trixar_za's advice to read up on linux command and continue to struggle with linux.
lastly, I want to thank everyone and apologise for being rude to interrupt on this link.
monte
ms3811
offlineMember
Actually, that's a bit surprising. The get-flash-plugin script works pretty flawlessly, although I haven't tested on firefox in recent times (I use iron-linux, a chromium based browser). Make sure you are running these commands as root, your errors suggest you may not be.
Since this thread is misleading (and might irritate others :)), I suggest you start a new thread with any specific issues that you might be facing. Even if it's just to reply to this post.
Don't worry about being new to Linux, everybody starts somewhere, and the best part of Linux is, being new is a good thing. You are welcomed into the community, unlike proprietary codebases where being new is an opportunity for someone else to make money off you.
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
Everybody starts as a beginner when it comes to Linux. SliTaz isn't the easiest distro to start with. If fact, it's downright hard. But if you can master it, you'll be able to use any Linux distro, easy or hard, out there.
You can install my firefox using tazpkg install firefox-4.0.tazpkg with the the package file in your home directory.
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