hi,
just started using antiX M7.2 on an old Dell Inspiron laptop and I'm very impressed but I'm fairly new to Fluxbox and Rox-filer, and there's something that's driving me mad.
How do you make Rox-filer stay the same size when it opens - the size you manually set it to by grabbing the bottom right corner and dragging - instead of it reverting to a size that's just big enough to display the folders it contains?
cheers in advance

Try this. Right click on the window title bar>>remember>>dimension. This should work with any window. Rox usually auto resizes as needed.

Thanks for that eriefisher, will try it when I get home.

Home now - and that works, to an extent. It opens the Rox filer window in the same size and location as last time, but what it doesn't do is open any subsequent folders (ie those within my home folder) in the same size/location - and setting each folder in home in a similar way doesn't work. Any other ideas? I checked both the Fluxbox and the Rox wikis/manuals and couldn't find an answer.

Ok this seems to work.

Do whateriefisher suggested once you have it set to the dimensions you wish.
Then open ~/.fluxbox/apps file and edit the Rox part to read (keeping your dimensions of course)

[app] (name=rox) (class=Rox)
[Dimensions] {652 566}
[end]

Rox is"unique" but it gets the job done. I have been using pcmanfm and now I prefer it. It also has the ability of controlling the"desktop" for icons and what not. Red devil mentioned he tried to install thunar in his review. I think he would really like pcmanfm.

eriefisher wrote:Rox is"unique" but it gets the job done. I have been using pcmanfm and now I prefer it. It also has the ability of controlling the"desktop" for icons and what not. Red devil mentioned he tried to install thunar in his review. I think he would really like pcmanfm.

Having read the review i was somewhat surprised at the Thunar problem. as i have Thunar installed on all of my antiX installs and none of the installs have caused any problems that i'm aware of.

But that's exactly what i thought, that if Thunar's a problem and Rox isn't going too well, then he's almost certainly going to like PCmanFM, which is just getting better & better with every release. __{{emoticon}}__

Is that a simple install from Synaptic? If not, is there any dependency problem?

Jerry wrote:Is that a simple install from Synaptic? If not, is there any dependency problem?

Hi Jerry.

I'm pretty sure that it was a pretty straightforward install. I used this http repo address


that's given on the lxde.sf.net website, and installed from there. All went pretty well, and i don't remember any dep probs. I know that it's for debian sid, but it worked fine on deb testing. PCmanFM is great. Solid, stable (even the experimental version) and tabbed browsing is fantastic! __{{emoticon}}__


The only thing i did have to do was disable all other repo (except the pcman one) lines in the sources.list (temporarily) because otherwise it would default to installing an older version from deb testing. But apart from that it was straightforward.

Thanks, it looks good.

Edit: no, the package is not on that site. The website sends you to another location for pcmanfm where you download the source code.

When I tried to compile that, I ran into dependency problems, namely no gtk+-2.0. Looked for that without success through Apt.

Stuck.

Give
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a try...... It's built for debian testing & should work, and AFAIK it's the latest (experimental) release.

I know that when you compile PCmanFm from source you need to have both HAL & GTK+ devs installed (As well as FAM or, preferably, gamin). They're both in the repos, but the names are a bit different. I usually search in synaptic (search for GTK+ dev) and that brings up a whole slew of names, then i'll pick the one(s) that i want then close synaptic & get them using apt-get. __{{emoticon}}__

Anyway, let me know how you get on with that deb if you get a chance. If you browse the page
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, you'll also find pretty much the whole collection of LXDE related debs etc, in case you're interested. LXappearance in particular works extremely well, and has just been adopted by the latest TinyMe release.

Version 3.2 is in stable, 3.6 in testing and 4.4 has to be downloaded from the lxde site as DJinn pointed out.

Thanks to both, but I keep running into an error that gtk+-2.0 is not installed, and have not had luck solving that.

Check for libgtk2 or 1 or maybe both. And maybe the devs and bin.

Jerry wrote:Thanks to both, but I keep running into an error that gtk+-2.0 is not installed, and have not had luck solving that.

Do you get that error even when installing via dpkg? As eriefisher said, it's possibly the libgtk libs that you need, although i think i only got that error when i was compiling, not when installing the deb.

Yup, got it with both.