Copyright © 2006 Jasper Huijsmans
Copyright © 2004 Benedikt Meurer
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Table of Contents
The xfce-utils
package provides the general 'About Xfce 4' dialog, a run dialog
and several useful scripts that are also used by other Xfce components such
as the panel and the desktop menu.
The run dialog allows the user to launch applications. Applications can be run in a Terminal emulator (Terminal by default, see xfterm4 script below). In a default Xfce environment, the Alt+F2 key combination will open the run dialog.
The About Dialog is used to display information about Xfce 4, including a list of components, a credits page for all people who helped to create Xfce 4 and license information.
The startxfce4
is a convenient script to
start an Xfce 4 session from the console. It will give you a session
with two panels and with the desktop manager and window manager
running.
To customize the behaviour of startxfce4
,
copy the file ${sysconfdir}/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
to
your personal ~/.config/xfce4/
directory and edit
that file. If you install from source,
${sysconfdir}
defaults to
/usr/local/etc
; for binary packages it is usually
set to /etc
.
With the inclusion of a session manager in Xfce 4.2, the preferred way to change startup behaviour is by using the "Save session" option in the logout dialog.
This script is used to open the local Xfce 4 documentation in a
browser. By default it will try to use
exo-open
from the libexo library. You
can change the preferred browser from the Xfce Settings Manager
dialog. If exo-open
is not available, the
script will try a number of well-known browsers, like firefox, galeon
or konqueror, but you can change that by setting the $BROWSER
environment variable.
If there is documentation installed in the language of your current locale, xfhelp4 will open that instead of the default English documentation.
This script is used by the panel to lock the screen using xscreensaver if available and falling back to xlock.
xfce-utils
was written by
Jasper Huijsmans (<jasper@xfce.org>
),
Olivier Fourdan (<fourdan@xfce.org>
) and
Benedikt Meurer (<benny@xfce.org>
).
To find more information, visit the
Xfce web site.
To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, please use the bug tracking system at http://bugzilla.xfce.org/.
If you have questions about the use or installation of this package, ask on the xfce mailing list. Development discussion takes place on the xfce4-dev mailing list.