Desktop icons in xfce4

This should be possible, but how??? I read in their forum that I should startup rox instead of xfdesktop in xinitrc, but it didn't work. I tried to do it in at least two different xinitrc since it didn't say which one... And I started thinking, the "rox" package for arch, is it the whole rox, or just the rox-filer? If this isn't the problem, how can I do this?

I didn't write it to the file but I did as root:
killall xfdesktop
rox -p=Default&
in a terminal and I got some icons on my desktop! Three other problems accurd now... How do I change the background? How do I change the fonts to be used? (and will those two setting affect the standard rox-filer too? I don't want that if it's doable...) And three, all minimized applications shows an icon on the desktop, how can I get rid of that?

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  • [Solved] wy i can place xfce4 desktop icons in a "grid" only?

    hello archers!
    im in love with xfce4 DE, but the annoying thing is that i can place the desktop icons only in a invisible "grid" of tiles.
    i changed the display manager to gdm, but it didn't help. i tryed changing the WM, but didn't not find out how to do that.
    Yes, i dont understand how DE's working internal, cause there are so many parts, as DM, WM, session-manager, and so on, which confuses me.
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    Thanks in advance!!
    Last edited by xfce-tux (2011-09-12 21:13:34)

    Another way to adjust the desktop grid size settings and more. 
    Source:  http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README
    HIDDEN CUSTOMISATIONS
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    If you're using the icon view, and would like to change how the text looks,
    you have three things you can change: the opacity (transparency) of the
    rounded text background, the color of the rounded text background, and the
    color of the text itself.
    You'd want to add something like this to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:
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    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 75
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 100
    XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#ff0000"
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 2
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 2
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#00ff00"
    XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5
    base[NORMAL] = "#00ff00"
    base[SELECTED] = "#5050ff"
    base[ACTIVE] = "#0000ff"
    fg[NORMAL] = "#ff0000"
    fg[SELECTED] = "#ff0000"
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#ff0000"
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    (truncated) to fit on one line. (The 'selected-' version controls the
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    with the icon labels. The offsets are in pixels. Setting them to 0 (the
    defaults) will disable the shadows entirely. Again, the 'selected-'
    versions apply to icons that have been selected with the mouse.
    The third four entries set spacing and sizing for individual icons on
    the grid. The 'cell-spacing' property specifies the spacing between each
    'cell' in the grid of icons. The 'cell-padding' property sets extra
    padding placed around each icon+text. The units for these two are in
    pixels. The 'cell-text-width-proportion' property specifies the maximum
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    not have keyboard/mouse focus.
    The final three entries set the color of the label text. See above for the
    differences between NORMAL, SELECTED, and ACTIVE.

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    hi all,
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  • Help! Desktop icons gone, no right click ... and Nautilus crashes!

    I have a fully upgraded Gnome-based system, and all of a sudden my desktop icons disappeared, clicking on the desktop does nothing, and every time I use Nautilus it crashes with the error (from bug report):
    Distribution: Unknown
    Gnome Release: 2.24.3 2009-01-20 (Archlinux)
    BugBuddy Version: 2.24.2
    System: Linux 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 18 20:17:17 UTC 2009 i686
    X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
    X Vendor Release: 10503000
    Selinux: No
    Accessibility: Disabled
    GTK+ Theme: Glider
    Icon Theme: Foxtrot
    Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
    CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0
    ----------- .xsession-errors (6 sec old) ---------------------
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    ** (nautilus:9421): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
    --- Hash table keys for warning below:
    --> file:///home/user
    --> file:///home
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    (nautilus:9421): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 2 elements at quit time
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    Last edited by ninian (2009-01-21 09:35:05)

    Uh-oh, seems like this problem could go wider than I thought. There's a fairly lengthy thread on the Ubuntu forums which smells the same, for example:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … stcount=42 =>
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    Got it! I can get a crash with this:
    Code:
    mkdir ~/test
    cp /usr/share/applications/compiz.desktop ~/test/
    nautilus ~/test
    I'm going to leave a comment in the bug.
    And in fact, I was mucking around with .desktop files when I think my icons went AWOL.
    Anyone else brave enough to risk losing their desktop to try this out?!

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    Question
    When trying to create a desktop icon, it does not go to the URL.....instead I get 'script' and not a website......the script has http//etc but I am not directed to the website......I previously had IE 8 (on Vista).....is that the problem?I do not have any installed plugins....at least none that I know of.....remember I am a new user......Basically, the desktop icon is not going directly to the Mozilla FF to get me to the web site I need to go to.....FF works when I use the Mozilla FF icon.....just not the icons I create.....THANKS!!! I have also tried reinstalling FF and get the same results.....HELP!!!

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