If for some reasons or another you noticed that your Xfce desktop became grey out of a clear blue sky, nonetheless the mouse left-right click responding in a weird manner, you better read this first. First thing you tried was…
Xfce Desktop grey
No running instance of xfce4-panel has been found
If you are using Linux with XFce4 desktop environment and you've got either a "No running instance of xfce4-panel has been found" or "Modifying the panel is not allowed" error message then probably you started digging on Internet for a…
Fix the "Unable to find or create trash directory" in Thunar
If you get the following error when you are deleting a file within Thunar then it should be the right moment to check few things, if you want it to be fixed: check if you have gvfs installed check if…
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…
Suspend laptop Linux with 1 line of code
I have Gentoo with Xfce desktop environment. It has a xfce4-session-logout command which displays a logout-suspend-shutdown confirmation screen where you can choose what you want to do. Sometimes I only need to suspend to RAM the session and I want…
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…
Alternative to Xfce calendar panel
I don't want to install and use the Xfce calendar plugin, because 99% of time I don't need it (so why should I keep the laptop memory busy all the time with something that I rarely use?) As alternative I…
Xfce reboot shutdown suspend disabled
When installing Gentoo with Xfce desktop environment it happens that Restart/Shutdown buttons are greyed when you are logged with a non-root user. Searching many forums I found many "solutions" that didn't done the trick for me. But I also found…
SLIM failed to execute login command
After installing Xfce4 and SLiM login manager I have noticed that by just entering the user name and password would not sufficient to login to desktop because I get error message "SLiM failed to execute login command" all the time.…