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Re: Remaining oddity of ROX version for Xubuntu 11.10

Thomas Leonard — 2012-03-27T11:32:26

Most likely, some other program is using 0launch to run ROX-Filer
(e.g. Edit when you open the parent directory). Though given how
rarely we release filer updates, I can't imagine you see this message
very often... and even then, I'd expect 0launch to use the
distribution's version of ROX-Filer (since the default is to prefer
stable, distribution versions).

You can see which versions it has / prefers with this command:

$ 0launch -g http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer

Double-click on ROX-Filer to see the list of versions.

Remaining oddity of ROX version for Xubuntu 11.10

Jim Lesurf — 2012-03-27T11:09:32

Pleased to say that ROX is now working nicely on my new box running Xubuntu
11.10. :-) However there is one occasional 'odd' behaviour which I wonder
if anyone recognises or can suggest a fix.

Every now and then I get a pop up window telling me that zero-install is
downloading 'rox filer'. Yet I installed ROX using synaptic from the *buntu
repository lists.

The distro does include zero install as an option on the menu. But if I use
this it shows no sign of my having any zero install items.

Doesn't seem to affect day-to-day operation. But a bit of a puzzle, and
leaves me wondering what it is downloading, why. I've never (knowingly)
used zero install, so I don't know if this is normal for zero install to
'check' on apps it knows about even if installed from a distro package.
Anyone know, or can say how I can stop this?

Slainte,

Jim

Re: no sendto menu items icon

Denis Prost — 2012-03-26T20:39:42

Finally, I found that the reason was that I was running  
gnome-settings-daemon.
After removing it from the window manager autostart file, the problem was  
gone.

Denis

Le Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:26:54 +0200, Denis Prost <denis.prost< at >wanadoo.fr> a  
écrit:

Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Jim Lesurf — 2012-03-25T09:08:15

In article <gemini.m1ehiz01dxmi80407.stephen< at >kerofin.demon.co.uk>, Stephen
Watson <stephen< at >kerofin.demon.co.uk> wrote:



Yes!  :-))  The file had 'style="1"'. Changing that value to "0" fixed the
problem and the icons on the panel now all have the relevant name
displayed.

I *had* previously tried setting this via the normal ROX options menu you
can call up from the filer windows. I'd checked that a number of times as I
searched the options in vain for the 'missing' ability to alter the panel
size as well. It looks like one of the flaws in the Xubuntu version is that
this seems not to actually change the value in pan_Default.

However the result is OK, now.

Thanks very much,

Jim

Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Stephen Watson — 2012-03-24T17:49:48


That is a panel option "Image only for applications" on the window you can't
seem to get to.


Have you tried grabbing the source from the ROX site and building it?  That
cuts out the middle man and any "improvements" they may have made.

the
size

You did find it, in pan_Default and similar: <options width="64" etc>. You
could also try setting style="0" if you want text under apps.

Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Jim Lesurf — 2012-03-24T17:17:32

In article <gemini.m1cghy00pt52o0407.stephen< at >kerofin.demon.co.uk>,
Stephen
Watson <stephen< at >kerofin.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]


Yes, agreed. Now all I have to do is fix or work around it! :-)

I've put a grab of a section of the icon bar up at

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/temp/oddbar.png 

That shows the icons I've placed at the left had end of the panel.

The first four, starting from the far left, are directories. These
initially appeared as you'd expect with the 'blue folder' icon that 'Apps'
still has. But I've used the item option to add an icon for ones like
'media' and 'ROXapps'.

The rest are icons for firefox, VLC, audiacious, WAVchopper, and soxflac.
I've not yet created a directory icon for the soxflac app.

As you can see, the first four have the text under the icons, but the
others don't. This is what is puzzling me.

Now it may just be that the first ones have smaller icons. But I thought
I'd kept the icons down to a reasonable size, and all is well on older
distros.

However, my first thought

Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Stephen Watson — 2012-03-23T15:32:22


Something's broken then, you should get an options window.

Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Jim Lesurf — 2012-03-23T14:18:40

In article <gemini.m1c98r00mtjm80407.stephen< at >kerofin.demon.co.uk>,
Stephen
Watson <stephen< at >kerofin.demon.co.uk> wrote:



Afraid not.

If by 'menu' you mean the right-button on the mouse, then, yes, that does
pop up a menu which includes "Panel Options...".

But if I click on that, nothing happens (apart from the menu that offerred
it vanishing again). Nothing appears that would let me set any actual
options, etc.

If you mean the middle-button on the mouse (i.e. the RO 'menu' click) then
that does nothing at all.

Am I doing something wrong or misunderstanding?

FWIW I removed the default Xubuntu 'panel 2' as I did in earlier distros.
So just have the ROX panel at the bottom. And I'm running 'rox -S' at
startup with no ROX pinboard.



So what value, where, sets the user-chosen height ('width'?) of the panel?
If you can direct me to the file and item I can try altering the value by
editing the file. However as yet, I've not found it!  :-)

Re: Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Stephen Watson — 2012-03-23T12:55:39


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

have

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

Quirks with ROX on Xubuntu 11.10

Jim Lesurf — 2012-03-23T12:14:30

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.

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 peopl

Re: problems with roxterm 2.X

Tony Houghton — 2012-03-19T18:10:59

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 12:07:46 +0100
Richard Stoerzer <rstoerzer< at >yahoo.de> wrote:


I only just realised that I was mistakenly filtering the rox lists into
a folder I'm not subscribed to. I don't use ROX any more and roxterm is
desktop-agnostic, so please report bugs on its tracker at sourceforge.


There have been some releases where roxterm-config was badly broken like
that.


I can't reproduce that in 2.5.3 (GTK3 version).

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Re: MIME Type incorrectly applied

2012-03-17T13:06:21


Looking at the source directories, it appears to be using the XDG MIME
libraries, including xdgmimeglob.{c,h}  which suggests to me that yes, it
does consider filename extensions. (or should).  Whether ROX is actually
using the information returned by those routines rather than depending on
the file magic information is the question.
--Victor Wren


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Re: MIME Type incorrectly applied

2012-03-17T12:30:52


No, the file is not zero length.  If I open it with Audacious instead of
ROX, it works exactly as it is supposed to.  These are the same kind of
files auto-generated by any of a dozen different CD rippers.


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Re: MIME Type incorrectly applied

Stephen Watson — 2012-03-17T09:28:52


Just confirm that the .m3u file is not empty.  Zero length files are always
classified as text/plain.

Re: MIME Type incorrectly applied

Alex Austin — 2012-03-16T22:26:05

I suspect it's using libmagic (the file command) to get MIME info. I've
found that, under ROX, file extensions don't matter.

- Alex

MIME Type incorrectly applied

2012-03-16T16:57:00

I'm a new ROX user, and I'm setting up my various configurations.  I've
run across at least one incorrectly applied mime-type, though.  In my
music folders, I have an *.m3u file which holds the playlist for the
directory.  When I try to apply an action to it (Audacious, in my case),
ROX wants to change the action for "text/plain"  I looked up where *.m3u
might be referenced in /usr/share/mime, and found these entries:

/usr/share/mime/globs:

audio/x-mpegurl:*.m3u
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl:*.m3u

Also, in /usr/share/mime/audio:

x-mpegurl.xml:  <alias type="application/m3u"/>
x-mpegurl.xml:  <alias type="audio/m3u"/>
x-mpegurl.xml:  <alias type="audio/x-m3u"/>
x-mpegurl.xml:  <glob pattern="*.m3u"/>
x-mpegurl.xml:  <glob pattern="*.m3u8"/>

So clearly the mime type should be "audio/x-mpgurl" based on globbing.

I used the ROX MIME-editor, and when I pull up audio/x-mpegurl, it, too,
shows, right in the first section ("Name matching")
Match "*.m3u"
Match "*.m3u8"
Match "*.vlc"

On the (far-fetched) theory

Re: Auto running rox -S at bootup

2012-02-23T22:56:54

While I don't use "rox -S", I do use "rox -p" to start a pinboard. The
place to put the command would probably be ~/.xinitrc or
~/.xsessionOne system I ran used the first method, but my current
system uses the second method.You also might want to check out the
contents of "startx", but I'm assuming that this is the command used
to start the desktop.Cheers,Nomer
P.S. I'm new to using mailing lists (I'm more into web forums.) so I'm
not sure how to format my post.
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Jim Lesurf  wrote:I've been
happily running and using ROX on three different linux boxes
(Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and Crunchbang) for a few years. I am shortly going
to
get a new machine and intend to use ROX on that as well. However I
have
forgotten how to set up the system so that rox -S runs when the
machine is
booted up! Nor can I find all my notes.

What is the simplest way to do this? I had thought that adding "rox
-S" to
the etc/rc.local file might do the job. But that doesn't work on a
Ubuntu
install I trie

Auto running rox -S at bootup

Jim Lesurf — 2012-02-23T12:10:09

I've been happily running and using ROX on three different linux boxes
(Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and Crunchbang) for a few years. I am shortly going to
get a new machine and intend to use ROX on that as well. However I have
forgotten how to set up the system so that rox -S runs when the machine is
booted up! Nor can I find all my notes.

What is the simplest way to do this? I had thought that adding "rox -S" to
the etc/rc.local file might do the job. But that doesn't work on a Ubuntu
install I tried this morning. I'm fairly sure that adding a file like this
did work OK for the systems that I have doing this. but I can't recall the
details and haven't yet found the file (or my old notes).

I'll keep experimenting, but would welcome an explanation.

FWIW I plan to run Xubuntu (or maybe Mint or Crunchbang). And I prefer to
have one Xfce panel at the top of the screen with the rox panel at the
bottom.

Slainte,

Jim

problems with roxterm 2.X

Richard Stoerzer — 2012-01-08T11:07:46

I've just tried to switch to a newer version of roxterm - without luck.

I have two problems with roxterm (2.4.2 from
https://launchpad.net/~h-realh/+archive/ppa, oneiric ) and 2.0.1 from
source code:
- roxterm-config segfaults when I try to edit a profile ("properties")
(2.4.2 only)
- roxterm segfaults if "scrollbar_pos" is set to zero

Both work fine with 1.13.5 


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problems with roxterm 2.X

Richard Stoerzer — 2012-01-08T11:07:46

I've just tried to switch to a newer version of roxterm - without luck.

I have two problems with roxterm (2.4.2 from
https://launchpad.net/~h-realh/+archive/ppa, oneiric ) and 2.0.1 from
source code:
- roxterm-config segfaults when I try to edit a profile ("properties")
(2.4.2 only)
- roxterm segfaults if "scrollbar_pos" is set to zero

Both work fine with 1.13.5 


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problems with roxterm 2.X

Richard Stoerzer — 2012-01-08T11:07:46

I've just tried to switch to a newer version of roxterm - without luck.

I have two problems with roxterm (2.4.2 from
https://launchpad.net/~h-realh/+archive/ppa, oneiric ) and 2.0.1 from
source code:
- roxterm-config segfaults when I try to edit a profile ("properties")
(2.4.2 only)
- roxterm segfaults if "scrollbar_pos" is set to zero

Both work fine with 1.13.5 


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