Copyright © 2003 The XFce 4 Development Team
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The xfce-utils package provides a taskbar, a nice about box, a run dialog and several useful scripts that are also used by other XFce 4 components such as the panel and the desktop menu.
The taskbar is either at the top or the bottom of the screen and shows all running programs. The behaviour of the taskbar can be changed from the settings manager. Run xfce-setting-show taskbar, or start the settings manager from the panel. In addition to the tasklist, the taskbar also features a simple graphical pager and a notification area (also known as the system tray). Both can be disabled from the settings dialog.
The run dialog allows the user to launch applications. Applications can be run in a Terminal emulator (xterm by default).
The About Dialog is used to display various informations about XFce to the user. These are basic information about the XFce 4 desktop and its components, the list of developers and contributers that made up XFce 4 and legal information.
- startxfce4
The startxfce4 is a convenient script to start an XFce 4 session from the console. It will give you a session with a taskbar and a panel and with the desktop manager and window manager running. All programs, or symbolic links to programs, in ~/Desktop/Autostart/ will be run by startxfce4 on startup.
To customize the behaviour of startxfce4, copy ${sysconfdir}/xfce4/xinitrc to your personal ~/.xfce4/ directory and edit that file. If you install from source, ${sysconfdir} defaults to /usr/local/etc; for binary packages it is often set to /etc.
- xfhelp4
This script is used to open the local XFce 4 documentation in a browser. By default it will use mozilla, but you can change that by setting the $BROWSER environmental variable. For instance in your ~/.bashrc put the following line:
export BROWSER="galeon -w"
If there is documentation installed in the language of your current locale, xfhelp will open that instead of the default English documentation.
- xflock4
This script is used by the panel to lock the screen using xscreensaver if available and falling back to xlock.
- xfmountdev4
xfmountdev4 /dev/mountpoint will mount the given mountpoint and open xffm in that location. When you close the xffm window the filesystem will be unmounted. Note that you can use xffstab provided with xffm for the same purpose.
- xfterm4
This is a convenient terminal script. It uses the $TERMCMD environmental variable as terminal command if available and falls back to using xterm. Especially useful in the panel where you can drag file or directories to it that will be viewed by the appropriate console application (less for text files, lynx for html).
xfce-utils was written by Jasper Huijsmans (<huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>), Olvier Fourdan (<fourdan@xfce.org>) and Benedikt Meurer (<benedikt.meurer@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>). To find more information, please visit the XFce web site.
To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual send an e-mail to the xfce4-de mailing list or use the bug tracking system at the XFce SourceForge project site.
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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