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**How to pronounce Xfce and what does it mean?** | **How to pronounce Xfce and what does it mean?** | ||
- | "Ecks Eff See Eee". The name Xfce originally stood for XForms Common Environment, | + | "Ecks Eff See Eee". The name Xfce originally stood for XForms Common Environment, |
**What does the logo mean?** | **What does the logo mean?** | ||
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Alternatively you can run the command **xfce4-appearance-settings** from a terminal or from the Alt-F2 run command instead of using the menu to get to the appearance settings to enable accelerators. | Alternatively you can run the command **xfce4-appearance-settings** from a terminal or from the Alt-F2 run command instead of using the menu to get to the appearance settings to enable accelerators. | ||
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+ | Menu accelerators let you set a keyboard shortcut to a menu item or entry. To enable menu accelerators go to the main menu and select: | ||
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+ | Settings -> Appearance -> Settings tab | ||
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+ | and select the ' | ||
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+ | Alternatively you can run the command **xfce4-appearance-settings** from a terminal or from the Alt-F2 run command instead of using the menu to get to the appearance settings to enable accelerators. | ||
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+ | A number of Xfce applications (Xfce Terminal and Thunar for example) support the standard GTK+ way of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to. | ||
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+ | To delete a keyboard assignment, press the {key> | ||
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+ | If the shortcut doesn' | ||
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+ | * You can enable {gui> | ||
+ | * If you are running GNOME then you can enable {gui> | ||
+ | * Otherwise put the following in your ~/ | ||
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+ | <note tip>In the case of Xfce4-terminal, | ||
===== Kiosk ===== | ===== Kiosk ===== | ||
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====== Development ====== | ====== Development ====== | ||
- | === How can I report bugs? === | + | ==== How can I report bugs? ==== |
You can report bugs [[http:// | You can report bugs [[http:// | ||
- | === How often are new releases made? === | + | ==== How often are new releases made? ==== |
Whenever we feel like it is ready to be released. If you are unhappy with this you can always choose to hire the whole Xfce developer crew and pay us (we accept VISA/ | Whenever we feel like it is ready to be released. If you are unhappy with this you can always choose to hire the whole Xfce developer crew and pay us (we accept VISA/ | ||
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2 possibilities: | 2 possibilities: | ||
* Give it time. Maybe the responsible developer is on vacation, maybe he didn't check the mailing list / bugzilla yet. Keep in mind that someone may be having a bad day and may not care to respond at all. Time can help. | * Give it time. Maybe the responsible developer is on vacation, maybe he didn't check the mailing list / bugzilla yet. Keep in mind that someone may be having a bad day and may not care to respond at all. Time can help. | ||
- | * Try givng more detailed information. | + | * Try giving |
* Maybe you have been disrespectful when asking your question / reporting a bug. While you are totally allowed to rate a product just as you please, you do have to realise that in the case of open source products you didn't pay for the product or the support on the product, and the developers may not value your feedback. So when you report something that affects you, you are actually asking a favor. When reporting such a problem you can improve your chances on goodwill of the developers by asking your question in a polite, respectfull way. Do realise that even if you do so the developer might not be interested in/lack time to implement the feature/fix the bug you reported. A patch that fixes the issue might still convince him to spend time on it. [[http:// | * Maybe you have been disrespectful when asking your question / reporting a bug. While you are totally allowed to rate a product just as you please, you do have to realise that in the case of open source products you didn't pay for the product or the support on the product, and the developers may not value your feedback. So when you report something that affects you, you are actually asking a favor. When reporting such a problem you can improve your chances on goodwill of the developers by asking your question in a polite, respectfull way. Do realise that even if you do so the developer might not be interested in/lack time to implement the feature/fix the bug you reported. A patch that fixes the issue might still convince him to spend time on it. [[http:// | ||
* When you are reporting a legitimate issue, it is understood that you are taking your valuable time to offer feedback to the developers. | * When you are reporting a legitimate issue, it is understood that you are taking your valuable time to offer feedback to the developers. |