rox on ubuntu 12.10

Installed rox and it runs, but...

1. it can only be started from the command line
   (e.g. rox -n &)
   I've tried numerous suggestions as to how to launch it from
   the Unity launcher or gnome desktop launcher, or a backdrop
   icon. None work.

2. as rox-filer is running as a detached process it produces
   (rox:14926): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment 
with non-zero page size is deprecated

3. curiously, when running rox from sudo su root session
   it is not necessary to use the "-n" option on the
   command line, but when running as another user, I have
   to use "rox -n" otherwise nothing happens.

4. Ideally, I'd have rox-filer as the default file manager
   but the procedure someone published for changing the
   default filer from nautilus to some other filer didn't
   work for rox-filer.

5. I found the installation pages on the web site very
   confusing and could not get them to work. In the end
   I used "apt-get install rox-filer" and it worked. Perhaps
   its time to update the web pages, which iirc mentioned
   Rox-All 1.3 and when I followed the links to download
   it lead me to Archive 2.3 (and not Rox-All).

Any answers/pointers would be welcome

Mike

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