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The Cinnamon Desktop Environment for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Preferred Applications -> Removable Media check "Never prompt or start programs on media insertion"

The Xfce Desktop Environment for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. broken symbolic .bashrc stops Xfce from login to GUI I guess this is a common problem

Shortcuts

  1. Set a shorcut for Xfce App Finder which is frequently used.

  2. Set a shortcut …

Manage Autostart Applications

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Autostart *.desktop configuration files are located in directories /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart/ . By default, autostart applications in /etc/xdg/autostart are not shown to users in …

Lightdm Tips

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. it seems that you can choose to enable VNC while starting lightdm. Does this solves the problem of auto-login? If you are allowed to login into the computer via VNC without …

Shortcuts for KDE

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. KDE supports the Win/Super key to bring up the application launcher now. If you are on an older KDE distributions which does not have it by default, you can get …

Desktop Environments for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ different DEs might have different format. At least I know that a desktop file created by Xfce cannot be used in GNOME, not sure the …