Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Jim Lesurf <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been going though installing my preferred software and settings on a
> new box running Xubuntu 11.10. One of the 'basic essentials' of which for
> me is ROX. I installed the version of ROX provided via synaptic, and
> overall it works fine. But there are a few quirks where it doesn't match
> the versions I have on earlier *buntu distros, so want to describe them
> here are see if people can suggest the reason/fix.
> 
> The main quirk is that the ROX panel (icon bar) has a size which I can't
> alter as before. Earlier versions have a slider for the size of the panel
> as part of the ROX options. But the menus for this in the Xubuntu 11.10
> version have no such slider I can find, and I've not found any GUI way. It
> give no alternative to 'Default' for the panel.

Menu on the panel and Panel Options.  That gives you the panel width
(height) for the individual panel.

> If I look inside
> 
>  .config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/pan_Default
> 
> I find an entry width="52" which I *guess* sets the width (i.e. height) of
> the panel. But altering this value seems to make no difference. So either
> I'm totally musinderstanding, or the people who packaged ROX for 11.10
have
> 'made alternative arrangements'.

I think it's the minimum width, so setting it smaller than the smallest icon
on the panel has no effect.


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