[arch-general] Xfce4 utils

Leonidas Spyropoulos

9 Nov 2012 9 Nov '12

9:57 a.m.

Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

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anti

9 Nov 9 Nov

11:24 a.m.

On 09/11/12 09:57, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

Did you install (parts of) the group xfce4-goodies? There's a great selection of plugins for the panel that should cover most of your needs. For wifi management you can just use nm-applet, you might need to add it to the startup applications.

Leonidas Spyropoulos

1:23 p.m.

OK I will take a look at them. I want to probably use netcfg instead on network manager as I am using systemd. So it was be handy to have a simple panel app for connecting to wireless networks.. On 9 Nov 2012 12:10, "anti" wrote:

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On 09/11/12 09:57, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

Did you install (parts of) the group xfce4-goodies? There's a great selection of plugins for the panel that should cover most of your needs. For wifi management you can just use nm-applet, you might need to add it to the startup applications.

Leonid Isaev

10:12 p.m.

On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:23:56 +0000 Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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OK I will take a look at them.

I want to probably use netcfg instead on network manager as I am using systemd. So it was be handy to have a simple panel app for connecting to wireless networks..

But please remember that managing networks in real-time with netcfg requires root. Netcfg is supposed to work autonomously, not controlled via a panel plugin. If you want to use such thing, I think you'll be better off with NM/wicd as they use dbus for communications between user frontends and the main daemon.

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On 9 Nov 2012 12:10, "anti" wrote:

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On 09/11/12 09:57, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

Did you install (parts of) the group xfce4-goodies? There's a great selection of plugins for the panel that should cover most of your needs. For wifi management you can just use nm-applet, you might need to add it to the startup applications.

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Eliseo Ocampos

11:46 a.m.

Hi Leonidas, On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

In the Unofficial Beginners' Guide you have two secctions that talks about wireless configuration: 0. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Wireless , and 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Wireless_2 If you want something more deep for wireless setup, check: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup , be sure to take a look to xfce4-xfapplet-plugin in AUR. Regards, Eliseo.

rafael ff1

11:54 a.m.

2012/11/9 Leonidas Spyropoulos :

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

http://wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_Applications

Christos Nouskas

8:10 p.m.

On 9 November 2012 10:57, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

For wifi connectivity wicd and wicd-gtk are probably all you'll ever need in xfce4. X.

Whiskers

10 Nov 10 Nov

12:13 a.m.

On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:57:43 +0000 Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

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Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

Wicd works well for me with Xfce; it sits in the 'notification area' of a panel. There's a 'network monitor' plugin for the panel, but it offers no controls. There are various other panel plugins for monitoring aspects of the system, but they are inclined to be limited in scope. GKrellM also works well with Xfce, if you want more configurable monitors. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~

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