Thanks for the quick response gapan.

Is exaile still being included in the upcoming Salix 14.2? The reason I ask is that it appears that it is disappearing from the newer debian-based distros (IIRC, it's a dependency that is not longer being supported more that a exaile issue).

Just a side note... Upgraded Firefox, started the app, everything was fine. Closed app, deleted existing .mozilla (to get a clean start with a new ESR) and restarted FF, did not start. It did however make a new .mozilla. I tried to re-start Firefox with the new .mozilla and it came up with a "R...

gaucho wrote:...someone who, in certain circumstances, has been referred to by certain other individuals, in certain other distros' communities, as being a BDFL.

Why anyone around here here would vote for Mark Shuttleworth is beyond me, but....

...is there a menu editor entry under system or settings? I seem to dimly remember a gui for menu editing...one the barely worked, sometimes, in some distros. The old-fashioned, hand edited way noted above always worked much better :) Most xfce distros nowadays appear to be moving to Whisker Menu a...

jpg153 wrote:I am still trying to find out which file I need to modify to change the entries under the start button...

If by Start Button you mean the applications menu (in the upper left, on the panel), then I'd start here: https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu

tharpa wrote:How does Mozilla's announcement that Thunderbird will no longer be maintained affect Salix, if at all?

I would say little, if any, effect, as claws is the default mail reader. But gapan, et al. could answer officially. That said, I will personally be disappointed, if and when.

jsfarinet wrote: Is there, a reasonable, way to upgrade the kernel further? And, is it reasonable to do that?

I'd start here http://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6628

Current was changed from the 3.18 to 4.1 August, so they are now going to go backward to 3.18 for a 14.2 release? I could see it happening...I seem to remember a cycle or two ago when PV wanted to use kernel X.X but couldn't make it work to his satisfaction so he backtracked to kernel X.X-Y. Plus, ...

Ah, more information...thanks. I could have sworn I read somewhere that 4.1 was already an LTS, but probably misremembered a "future LTS" as "LTS". But its all BS at this point because only PV and the inner team know for sure Personally, I think the reason that PV, et al. are so ...