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Window short cuts for XFCE4

Hi, This is not a programming question per se, but this is certainly about something which would help increasing my programming productivity. In KDE, one can assign short-cuts to particular windows. This eliminates alt-tabbing completely and, is very very convenient when multiple apps(browser, console, emacs etc) are open. My question ...

Moving from Gnome to XFCE

Hi. I'm using Gnome now and want to install XFCE. Nothing complicated but just curious - do all applications, installed previously on Gnome will be also removed or they would work on XFCE properly after installing XFCE and removing Gnome ? OS: Linux Mint 7 ...

Flash Characters on Screen in Linux

Hi, I have a XFCE 4.6 on kernel 2.6. Is there a quick and easy way to flash a message on the screen for a few seconds? My Thinkpad T60 has 3 volume buttons (up, down, mute). When I pressed the buttons, I would like to flash the volume on the screen for a second on screen. Can it be done with Python? ...

Smallest Xwindow for Linux

Hi, What is the smallest, friendliest Window Manager that I can run on Linux. I currently use Gnome which is a bit heavy. All I would be needing it for is to run Firefox. Xfce? ...

Create a xubuntu remotely through an ssh session instead of an xfce4 session

I'm attempting to startup a xubuntu session remotely though 'ssh -X' and I'm able to execute startxfce4 to bring up the standard xfce4 session but when I log in locally there is a 'Xubuntu session' choice which looks different then xfce4. What is the correct command line statement to bring up the full xubuntu display? ...

Hiding xfce4-panel from command line

Hello, Is there a way to hide xfce4-panel from command line. If no any other solutions how to hide it from terminal ? Regards, Levon ...