Re: rox on ubuntu 12.10

Thierry Goubier <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:41:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 18/04/2013 16:18, Mike Hobbs a écrit :
> 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.
Which procedure? I do use rox as my default file manager, but also with 
the rox -n issue.

It launches from my home directory icon or from any connected disk.

Thierry

>
> 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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