Foldes in Desktop and Files

[Member gusi]

Hi
That is not good, that i can not directly create folders (with the right Mouse-key like in XFXE)
on the Desktop , or must generate Links for that.
My wife would never akzept this Desktop.

and good bye
(im still waiting for that, before i do use Anti-x)

[Member Xecure]

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Disable right-click uses WM menus in the preferred desktop-icon manager (be it ROX or Spacefm).
For similar experience to Thunar (from XFCE), use Space-icewm session and change the preferences as I mentione, so right-click on the desktop doesn’t launch the Window Manager menus.

Explore the preferences windows for each and experiment. If you cannot find it, we will point you in the right direction.

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[Moderator BobC]

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The default desktop is Rox-IceWM. I would suggest trying changing it from Main menu > Desktops menu > Other Desktops to Space-IceWM.

After you do that, any files or folders created in ~/Desktop should appear on the desktop, and you could just click them. If you don’t like the result, its easy to try a different desktop or change it back to Rox-IceWM.

[Member gusi]

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hi,
thanks for u answers Guys
This System has the minimal ram, i have sever seen
130 MB vs 310 MB (XFCE, after Start, when no notify or Powermaneger)

I have seen that BobC , and try out before
Fact is, u must create with a File-Manager a Folder in the Desktop
and then , u can use this ‘Folder

*But* you can not create a Desktop-Folder DIRECTLY in Interaction with the current Desktop
And this is not good !!! i say to you: this is a Dead-criteria for many people.

if i change from XFCE to Antix, i want to use for all my supportet PC /laptops in Family and Friends
from the lowest old PC to the high-end Performer.
thats are 30 people, 80% have Beginner-Status , i cannot give them this desktop,
i know their skil-level , that would produced problems, if my Wife says : “not good”
so 80% from them say this also
i have in installed on my test-VM Wine 6,17 , VM-Ware-player , scanner-software
all does running , very fast , the ram-handling is better compare to systemd
But with this Desktop more for profis

i m have a current a XFCE Master-Client (Debian , nonfree) for that with all xorg-Drivers from Vesa, ibm , ati , amd. noveau,,,
make a image from this VM-Ware Client and play it to these PC’s
Boot- Manager is REFind , on Secure-Boot, AIO-with REFind
The other pc start to 99%
the only i have to do on nvidia-Cards , is replace the noveau with the correct nvidia-Driver

Best Regards

sorry for my bad english

[Member Xecure]

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Open the File Manager, go to View > Preferences > Desktop and disable the right-click launches WM menu (as I explained before).

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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@gusi – welcome!

Only to add that the default ‘desktop’ (rox) is tightly integrated to the file manager (rox-filer) and works really well with ‘drag and drop’.

In the olden days, people created files/folders in the file-manager (hence the name) and then dragged the folder/file to the desktop.
I always use this method and find your way (the ‘modern’ way) ‘back to front’

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member gusi]

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ok, guys
u re are so loyal to this linux-Version !!!

so , i will make a deeper try ,
and test it with my Friend on an ext. ssd
he use wine-staging and play Wow-shadowlands

(in debian xfce , this is faster then with windows 10.
on his PC , TRUE
Windows make all PC’s lame

after the Tests , then i must find a way for the Desktop.
i write again in 14 days

[Moderator BobC]

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gusi, If your system is otherwise setup with antiX default options, try what Xecure suggested here:

Xecure wrote:

Disable right-click uses WM menus in the preferred desktop-icon manager (be it ROX or Spacefm).
For similar experience to Thunar (from XFCE), use Space-icewm session and change the preferences as I mentione, so right-click on the desktop doesn’t launch the Window Manager menus.

[Moderator BobC]

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Xecure, How did you make the GIF file and is there a way to change the timing to make it change the pictures more slowly?

I tried creating a WEBM file and it took 9.4 mb, too big…

[Member gusi]

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OK Xecure
u has forget , im new on Antix

Call the filemanger = wrong , then come Rox, these horrible Thing
because after a fresh Install , a Rox-Desktop is default
in this enviroment the real Desktop has nothing to do with the “Rox-Desktop”
u must copy filoes from u “pseudo-desktop” to u real Desktop ~/Desktop
Rox and i would be never Friends , i swear
and i do not know , what for people use this , all seems very chaotic to me

First , i have choose the Desktop “Space-Icewm”
and in this Environment is spacefm the filemanger
and this works so how u written .
I can now like in XFCE copy, create Folders and ‘files in the Desktop
and there is no difference what the Filemanager show and was real is in the Desktop -Folder
the whole Thing with this Desktop and spacefm is for me more symphatic

Ok, thema Desktop is ok

#excuse my bad english

[Member Xecure]

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BobC wrote:

Xecure, How did you make the GIF file and is there a way to change the timing to make it change the pictures more slowly?

I used peek (from the repos) to record a section of my screen and it converts it automatically to a gif. The speed of the gif is “real time”, but you can set the framerate inside peek (so maybe you can later change the gif properties to reduce the speed or something).

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[Moderator BobC]

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Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

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