[rox-users] Installation and use of the ROX Desktop

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Hi!

Firstly thank you to Will Godfrey, Delcides F Sousa Jr, and Thomas Leonard
for your replies.  I am progressing slowly.  Below is a summary of how
things stand at present.

I did as Delcides suggested (typed rox -b=mypanel -p=mypinboard) and, lo and
behold, an iconbar appeared at the bottom of the screen, just above the
openSuse panel.  On this were two directories - Home and Apps.  Opening the
Home one showed that it duplicated the openSuse Home directory.  Opening
Apps disclosed a plethora of directories, some of which I recognised, many
of which I didn't.

Taking the "bit between my teeth", I found KMyMoney2 in the appropriate Home
directory and after finding it in the openSuse KMenu and dragging the icon
to the ROX Filer KMyMoney2 icon all worked well.

Now, that is satisfactory where Icons appear in the KMenu but what do I do
for something like Gemini, an email/newsreader application which, in the
Linux version, does not have an icon?

I did as you suggested, Thomas, and it worked, inasmuch as when I then went
back to my user directory and typed rox the Home directory appeared.  I
cannot determine whether the iconbar appears because, as it is present, the
program may be written that if it is there do nothing.

So, what I now need to do is to:

(a) Setup ROX Filer so that it, and it alone appears as the Window Manager
when I boot the computer

(b) Before I do (a) find some way to get the apps in KMenu working under ROX
- those that have icons in ROX and KMenu do not present problems but those,
like Gemini, do.  And what of programs that have no icon in ROX, how do I
copy them to the ROX Apps folder?

(c) As in RISCOS, am I able to make new folders and drag and drop the 
programs where I want them?

(d)  A lot of the directories in ROX I do not require.  Is it safe to just
delete them?

I am aware that some of these questions are probably very basic but I want
to get it right, 'cos I can see ROX being my Window Manager of choice.

And, lastly, I am going to see my youngest daughter tomorrow and will be
away for about ten days.  She does not have a computer, so I will be having
withdrawal symptoms for that period.  I look forward to booting up again
when  I return home.

Oh! to answer your question, Thomas, "YES, ROX Filer appears to work under
openSuse 10.2"

Regards from New Zealand on a very cool and wet Monday morning.
-- 
David Love