[arch-general] Gnome is Working But Missing Apps

Ionut Biru biru.ionut at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 11:18:02 EST 2010


On 02/01/2010 06:15 PM, Carlos Williams wrote:
> I have Gnome Desktop Environment up and running perfect on my Arch
> x86_64 system but I elected to not install "gnome-extra" packages
> because it installs too much junk I don't want and or need. My
> question is I am missing two applications from Gnome and don't know
> what they're called and or what to search for.
>
so do pacman -S gnome-extra, answer NO and then chose whatever you want
or you can do pacman -Sg gnome-extra to see packages in gnome-extra.
> 1st - I can't open any JPEG or PNG images because Gnome does not
> appear to have the proper application to manage displaying those types
> of files. Can someone tell me what the name of the package is Gnome
> uses for default image viewing? I don't want Gimp for editing images,
> just to plainly view them.


>
> 2nd - I need the ability to RDP into a Windows XP workstation and I
> installed "rdesktop" packages via Pacman but I think that is the back
> end package and I am looking for the Gnome GUI application which
> allows me to do so. I don't know the name of that package. Can anyone
> please point me in the correct direction?

tsclient or something like that and is in aur.

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Ionut


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