Knowledge Base (Posts about xfe)

Touch file with XFE Script

bgstack15 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:53:00 GMT

I use an empty file with the modification timestamp to indicate the last time I manually synced my SyncThing-ed directory of my mobile phone pictures to my backup location.

I set up an alias to touch in my ~/.config/xfe/scripts directory.

$ ls -l ~/.config/xfe/scripts
total 3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bgstack15 bgstack15  14 Aug 13 14:42 touch -> /usr/bin/touch

So now I can just right-click the file and update the timestamp, now that I have re-synced. Because I keep some images on my mobile phone, I won't need to bother with any older than this synced-here file.

xdg-mime command for window managers

bgstack15 — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 14:36:52 GMT

I don't use a desktop environment for most of my desktop systems, I use the fluxbox (my blog posts) window manager. It hasn't changed since before I started using it, and probably won't ever. I think it's mostly dead, but that also means it won't ever change! I did start packaging the latest (probable) upstream (github) along with a patch I wrote for myself though.

So, because I don't use a desktop environment, and I had forgotten I could use my package of mime_types_editor or anything similar, I had a small problem when I try to use the "open directory" function beside a downloaded item in my web browser. So this command solved that for me:

xdg-mime default xfe.desktop inode/directory

And also to help myautomount tray icon menu:

xdg-mime default xfe.desktop inode/mount-point

Update 2023-11-08

For dvds, particularly with myautomount:

xdg-mime default vlc.desktop x-scheme-handler/dvd

Which adds to your mimeapps.list:

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/dvd=vlc.desktop

xfe spec Fedora 26 with proper build dependencies

bgstack15 — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:57:13 GMT

See the spec file at https://gist.github.com/bgstack15/ec1677daa1d19a9e1f5124068619e813. The wonderful X File Explorer does not properly describe what is needed to compile it. So here is my research to help anyone else trying to compile it on Fedora 26.

dnf install rpm-build intltool fox-devel glib-devel libpng-devel libXft-devel freetype-devel gcc-c++

https://gist.github.com/bgstack15/ec1677daa1d19a9e1f5124068619e813