PCMan File Manager

Hello!

Sergio has written on Friday,  6 July, at 13:45:
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>I thought that if possible pcmanfm, say, if it's handling the desktop and 'Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked' is set, then it would send inputs to the window manager like if there was no desktop window.
>But as I said, I don't know how Xfce (xfwm4) implements that feature of changing desktops with the mouse wheel.
>What maybe could be done is that pcmanfm would have a similar option in its advanced section of desktop preferences of enabling/disabling desktop switching with the mouse wheel and it would send the proper inputs to the window manager.
>pcmanfm recognizes the current workspace properly as it sets different wallpapers fine.

    It's not pcmanfm who changes desktops with mouse wheel in LXDE. It's
'pager' plugin of lxpanel. So address your suggestion rather to it. Thank
you a lot for your opinions in any case. I hope PCMan will decide what to
do with 'gksu' default.

    With the best wishes.
    Andriy.

>     It's not pcmanfm who changes desktops with
> mouse wheel in LXDE. It's
> 'pager' plugin of lxpanel.

Ah, that explains it. Then nothing to do as I'm using Xfce with xfce4-panel.

> Thank
> you a lot for your opinions in any case. I hope PCMan will
> decide what to
> do with 'gksu' default.
> 
>     With the best wishes.
>     Andriy.
> 

Thank you. I think it should be blank, like the 'terminal' field.

Regards.

>> I hope PCMan will decide what to do with 'gksu' default.

> Thank you. I think it should be blank, like the 'terminal' field.

It might be preferable to have a post-install script look for the
presence of one of a list of such "become root" utilities, and put the
entry for the first one it finds from that list into the system-wide
pcmanfm configuration.  If it finds none of them, it can leave the
field blank.

Once the list was reasonably complete, that approach should work for a
majority of end users, "out of the box", without needing their active
participation in configuring it by hand.

The same approach could also be used for the terminal field, of course.

Jonathan
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  Jonathan Marsden
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Hello!

Jonathan Marsden has written on Monday,  9 July, at 17:26:
>>> I hope PCMan will decide what to do with 'gksu' default.

>> Thank you. I think it should be blank, like the 'terminal' field.

>It might be preferable to have a post-install script look for the
>presence of one of a list of such "become root" utilities, and put the
>entry for the first one it finds from that list into the system-wide
>pcmanfm configuration.  If it finds none of them, it can leave the
>field blank.

>Once the list was reasonably complete, that approach should work for a
>majority of end users, "out of the box", without needing their active
>participation in configuring it by hand.

>The same approach could also be used for the terminal field, of course.

    This is good approach but this isn't pcmanfm level but rather package
management one so it's better to leave package-independent default config
that is shipped with pcmanfm without such default, as Sergio proposed. So
packages can insert their defaults in post-install scripts or in package
specific patch (you know about alternatives system in Debian perhaps). If
there will be no objections then I'll remove that default.

    Thank you!
    Andriy.