# Xfce 4 Settings Manager Plugins

### François Le Clainche

`<fleclainche@wanadoo.fr>`

### Benedikt Meurer

`<benny@xfce.org>`

### Jasper Huijsmans

`<huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>`

This manual describes the `xfce-mcs-plugins` package, version 4.1.x

Copyright © 2004 François Le Clainche

Copyright © 2004 Benedikt Meurer

Copyright © 2004 Jasper Huijsmans

## Introduction

The Xfce 4 settings manager provides access to the settings of all Xfce 4 components. This package provides dialogs to change settings for mouse behaviour, keyboard and user interface (including themes). All modifications will have an immediate effect on the behaviour of the selected module.

## Mouse Settings

Figure 1. Mouse settings dialog

Button settings

  Choose your mouse buttons setting, depending on whether you are left- or righthanded. This action swaps the left and the right button actions.

Motion settings

  Acceleration — this slider allows easy control of the speed of the mouse pointer when you move it.

  Threshold — Controls the threshold (in terms of distance) from which acceleration is applied to the mouse pointer.

Drag and drop

  Use this slider to fix the threshold (in term of distance) from which the environment considers that you are dragging an item while you are moving it with the mouse.

Double click

  Use this slider to choose the speed of the double-click action. "Slow" will increase the delay that can pass between mouse clicks when you double-click. "Fast" will decrease this delay.

## Keyboard Settings

Figure 2. Keyboard settings dialog

Select GTK key theme

  Select the type of keyboard shortcuts you want to use : Default or Emacs.

Keys

  When you press and hold a keyboard key, the corresponding action will be repeated if the "Repeat" option is selected.

  Delay — Use this slider to specify the delay between the first action of the pressed key, and the moment this action will begin to repeat itself.

  Speed — This slider determines at which speed an action will be repeated.

Cursor

  Select the "Show blinking" option if you want the cursor to blink in text boxes.

  Speed — Use this slider to specify at which interval the cursor will blink.

## User Interface Settings

Figure 3. User interface settings dialog

Theme tab

  Select in this list the GTK theme you want to see applied to the entire environment (all GTK2 based applications).

Icon tab

  Select in this list the icon theme you want to see applied to the entire environment (all GTK2 based applications).

Font

  The "font select" button shows the font family currently in use in your environment. Click this button if you want to change it, and a "font selection" dialog will appear.

  Figure 4. Font selection dialog

  This dialog allows you to choose a font family, its style and its size, with the help of a preview box at the bottom of the window. Just click the "OK" button to apply the new setting and close the dialog.

Toolbar Style

  There are four toolbar styles available to change the layout of toolbars used by compatible applications : Icons (icons only), Text (text only), Both (icons and text) and Both horizontal.

Font rendering

  In this section you can configure the font rendering. The first checkbox allows you to enable anti-aliasing, an effect that is applied to the edges of characters to make them look smoother. If you enable anti-aliasing, you can choose to use hinting, a font-rendering that improves the quality of fonts at small sizes and at low resolutions. You can select full, medium and slight hinting. Moreover, you can choose the sub-pixel color order for your fonts, using the "Use sub-pixel hinting" option and one of the four available hinting technics in the chooser, especially if you have a LCD or a flat-screen display.

## Display Preferences

Figure 5. Display Preferences dialog

Resolution

  Select the resolution and the refresh rate that you want to use for the current display.

Gamma correction

  You can adjust the gamma correction of your display color by color using the three red, green and blue sliders. There is an option to synchronise the three sliders, so moving one of them will change the gamma correction for all colors.

Availability

  Please note that the display plugin only works with XFree86 >= 4.3.0 or Xorg >= 6.7.0. In either case the `XFree86-VidModeExtension` must be enabled in the Xserver to change the gamma correction and the `RANDR` must be enable to change the resolution and refresh rate. Check the output of `xdpyinfo` to see if your Xserver supports these extensions.

## About Settings Manager Plugins

This package was written by Olivier Fourdan (`<fourdan@xfce.org>`), Jasper Huijsmans (`<jasper@xfce.org>`) and Benedikt Meurer (`<benny@xfce.org>`). To find more information, please visit the Xfce web site.

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, use the bug tracking system at http://bugzilla.xfce.org/.

If you have questions about the use or installation of this package, please ask on the xfce mailing list. Development discussion takes place on the xfce4-dev mailing list.

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.