If you have a system with two or more displays/monitors and are using a Linux XFce desktop environment then there are at least three methods for dual monitor setup in Xfce: Use the built-in Xfce Settings -> Display configuration utility.…
How to patch a baobab
For those who were around Linux in the last years the Gnome utility called Disk Usage Analyzer (aka baobab) is not a secret anymore. It is a gnome-utils, which perhaps works perfectly with the Gnome desktop environment, but in Gentoo…
Gentoo + Xfce = 98 MB of RAM
I succeed to tune my system so tight as it need only 98 MB of my 2GB of RAM to boot and run Xfce desktop. I am using a custom compiled kernel 3.2.2 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux which starts in top…
X11 volume control
In Ubuntu I had a volume control applet that allows me to change the volume or to toggle the volume (mute/unmute). There are many plugins/applets capable of doing this (on almost any Linux DM) but if you are like me…
Xfce auto login
Usually Linux provides a graphical login and that works via a login manager (such as slim,xdm,gdm,kdm,etc). Also there exists an alternative that is used for console login: agetty. To enable auto login in Linux (this is an independent of display…
How to disable xfce screensaver
Everything about starting a Xfce session is defined in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc. If you need to disable disable Xfce screensaver (xscreensaver) is better if you just change the global xfce4 property that is called "/startup/screensaver/enabled". In case that this property is not…