[ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec Discussion: Desktop Agnostic

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:31:12 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote:
>> I have tried putting xfce's menu in there to use but was unable to
>> make is work in a seamless manner.
>
> Isn't it possible to add a shortcut? E.g. Alt+F3 to launch
> xfce4-appfinder? I don't know how long it takes to launch it for the
> first time, but at least after it run one time, executing it again is
> as fast as lightning.

xfce's appfinder would not give a menu. It is still a search thing. The 
search function in Unity is not useless. There are situations where it is 
helpful.

> Isn't it possible to use lxpanel, fbpanel or any other panel on top of
> Unity?

xfce4-panel will work. but because it is not unity's panel, applications 
can cover it. If I put it on top of Unity's panel, it ends up under and I 
don't seem to be able to make unity's panel shorter like a can with 
xfce4-panel.

I have shortened xfce4-panel to leave room for an xfce4-panel running 
remotely via ssh -Y. It works really well. I ended up with two menu icons 
beside each other, the left for remote and then the local one beside that. 
I think I started xfce4-panel on the remote with dbuslaunch so that dbus 
stuff on the remote just worked. The idea was that the remote was not 
running x (or a DE) but had the audio IF in it. I haven't had the feeling 
of a need to do that since I replaced the P4 with an i5.

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Len Ovens
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