xfrun4 is a little Xfce program that allows to run commands, without having to open a terminal window. Since Xfce 4.10 it also works as a application launcher. It is summoned using Alt+F2 , and usually it pops right up, but lately it takes several seconds, sometimes almost a minute, to open. When trying to run it from the terminal, it prints this error: (xfrun4:6232): xfce4-appfinder-CRITICAL **: Failed to open window: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. This bug has been reported and there's a workaround: use the --disable-server option. Fix So to fix this we'll replace the command for the Alt+F2 shortcut with " xfrun4 --disable-server ". Open a terminal window and run: xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p '/commands/custom/<Alt>F2' -s...
I went with xubuntu for better slideshow feature than windows and better autoscroll PDF. Ristretto installed from an Ubuntu ISO of breezy badger onto xubuntu, now I'm trying to install other unix programs sans online connection of compute
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