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How Do I customise the xwindows appearance, mainly can I change the tab at the bottom of the screen to be the full width of the screen and use a larger font ?

also how do I add / remove things to what I believe is called the slit (the set of controls on the right hand side.

Finally !

I'm running a frugal HD install (I believe pendrive will have the same problem...) only root can have full control to the files on the hard disk so if I go and download something I have to launch emelfm as a super user to move it.

Would there be a way to script it to either reset permissions on boot (I think i understand frugal a little :-) ) or to make dsl a member of the root / admins group on boot to solve this - would this break anything ?

I think you can change the tab at the bottom of the screen by editing /home/dsl/.fluxbox/init. The fonts are controlled by the fluxbox style - if you want to change them copy one of the styles from /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/ to /home/dsl/.fluxbox/styles and edit it to suit. The slit applications specified in /home/dsl/.fluxbox/slitlist. There should be documentation on all of this at the fluxbox home page.

As for the second part of your question maybe adding

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mount -o remount,umask=000

to /opt/bootlocal.sh will work?

the "tab" width is controlled by this option in .fluxbox/init...
session.screen0.toolbar.widthPercent: 100
(that would make it 100%, the whole width of the screen)

.fluxbox/slitlist does not control which dockapps are loaded; it controls only their order. By default, the applications are started from /usr/bin/enhance, which is started from /home/dsl/.xinitrc. The standard way of defining what is loaded with a window manager is to add/remove them in .xinitrc, above the window manager command (fluxbox), with each command followed by '&'.

Quote (friedgold @ July 25 2005,18:39)

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mount -o remount,umask=000

to /opt/bootlocal.sh will work?

I can't get the

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mount -o remount,unmask=000

to work i've tested running a shell as root and it

I also found that man mount won't work through my proxy !

Thanks for the links on Fluxbox, both of you - I'll have a nose and play

Thanks This is cool,

Is there an easy way to add new icons to the desktop, I think it's a .lnk file somewhere, I'd like to add emelfm as super user as I use it at present :-)

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