XFCE Startup

Recently my battery died. Well it was about to die so I got it replaced. But it got me thinking about setting up a bare bone lightweight desktop to use for browsing and coding when battery life is important.

I setup XFCE 4.4.2 with conkeror and emacs, happily ran emacs and type "XS".

Damn Caps_Lock key. I had it remapped to be another CTRL in Gnome. It was a simple option in the settings program. Nothing like that in XFCE, so I scripted it using xmodmap

xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "remove Control = Control_L"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Control_L"
xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L"

So I put it in a file ~/.xmodmap

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keycode 66 = Control_L
add Control = Control_L

and then started looking for a way to call "xmodmap ~/.xmodmap" at startup. I was directed to ~/.config/autostart by one post. But this is not true.

I put it in the .bashrc but that required starting the terminal for the script to run and Ubuntu does not use bash_profile.

So I was searching for XFCE 4.4.2 specific setup when I came across this post. So if you are looking to autostart anything with XFCE, create a ".desktop" file in the /etc/xdg/autostart folder.

Conkeror Rocks!!!

Would you rather use your keyboard than your mouse?

Are you unhappy about having to use your mouse while browsing?

Do you use plugins for mouseless browsing on firefox (I am assuming you don't use IE obviously) and are not happy with them?

Go checkout Conkeror now!!! It's amazing!

Conqueror is an emacs inspired, keyboard driven browser. It's a good way to learn emacs too, for those of you who want to start using it. The shortcuts are all almost the same.

So go check it out... and enjoy!!!

P.S. Remap your caps-lock to ctrl. Who needs caps-lock anyways?