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by craigevil
Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:21 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: LXDE and KDE 3.5-applications
Replies: 3
Views: 3738

Re: LXDE and KDE 3.5-applications

No clue about kmail or knode, but I still run k3b, smplayer ,k9copy, and Bibletime. For rss/atom feeds I just use Google reader, and either web mail or Zimbra mail client, never did like the way kmail did things.
by craigevil
Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:54 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Status of lxtask, lxshortcut in Debian
Replies: 0
Views: 2179

Status of lxtask, lxshortcut in Debian

Just curious on what the hold up is getting these packages into Debian repo. The way it stands the "lxde" metapackage is not installable without them. The current work around of using Andrew's repo works for i386 but not for 64bit. Any idea when these packages will make it into the "o...
by craigevil
Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:16 am
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: lxinput errors Debian sid {Solved}
Replies: 4
Views: 4488

Re: lxinput errors Debian sid

Marty Jack wrote:Those atom_to_xatom assertions are all over the place in recent GTK releases.
yes just noticed its not confined to lxinput.

(leafpad:31179): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
by craigevil
Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:45 pm
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: lxinput errors Debian sid {Solved}
Replies: 4
Views: 4488

Re: lxinput errors Debian sid

Seems the debian package that is in incoming.debian.org has issues. I compiled it then used checkinstall to build the .deb and it works just fine. It does give an error when opened in a terminal but only at exit: $ lxinput (lxinput:14410): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertio...
by craigevil
Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:15 pm
Forum: LXDE Components
Topic: lxinput errors Debian sid {Solved}
Replies: 4
Views: 4488

lxinput errors Debian sid {Solved}

Running Debian Sid, grabbed lxinput from incoming.debian.org. It totally fails to start from the menu and from lxterminal it throws a bunch gtk errors. No other issues. $ lxinput (lxinput:20610): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_dialog_set_alternative_button_order: assertion `GTK_IS_DIALOG (dialog)' failed (lxi...
by craigevil
Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:51 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Clearing Recent opened files
Replies: 7
Views: 7966

Re: Clearing Recent opened files

Might take a look at bleachbit: Description: delete unnecessary files from the system BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy and remove junk. It removes caches, temporary files, cookies and broken shortcuts. It handles Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash...
by craigevil
Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:19 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: desktop shortcuts
Replies: 6
Views: 32367

Re: desktop shortcuts

aus9, I tried your approach and it did give me a desktop icon, but I could not execute it. Is there a way to execute a script file from the desktop? Thanks I have Firefox in my /home this is the Firefox.desktop i use: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Name[e...
by craigevil
Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:15 am
Forum: Partner Repository
Topic: Lightweight applications list - please extend it
Replies: 13
Views: 77528

Re: Lightweight applications list - please extend it

parcellite (similar to klipper/glipper) Description: A lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager Parcellite is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity. Homepage: http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/ alarm-clock Description: Alarm Cloc...
by craigevil
Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:07 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: How add Firefox, or item, to panel, move it, icon discussion
Replies: 4
Views: 10316

Re: How add Firefox, or item, to panel, move it, icon discussion

I run Debian and just recently decided to use Firefox rather than Icwweasel. So I created a Firefox.desktop , then opened pcmanfm as root and copied the Firefox.dekstop to /usr/share/applications , right clicked the panel for Applications Launch Bar Settings > Add> choose Firefox. http://img254.imag...