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crimesaucer

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 103

What does the 'xfce4-settings-helper' do?

I just noticed it in my Autostarted applications and was wondering what it does. Then when google searching about it all I could find were some bug posts where some people turned it off to get a faster boot up time?????

So I'm wondering what the Xfce Settings Manager does when running: xfce4-settings-helper

Wapush

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Registered: 2006-12-14

Posts: 140

Re: What does the 'xfce4-settings-helper' do?

Hi

According to the description of the Debian package:

xfce4-settings is the Xfce settings manager front-end. It comes with several different components for configuring application-independent settings inside xfconf. It contains multiple tools:

- xfce4-settings-manager (which replaces the old mcs settings manager),
   which executes the various (provided) settings dialogs
- xfce4-settings-helper: a daemon which provides special features, like
   keyboard shortcuts,  AccessX notification and update of keyboard and
   mouse-pointer data
- xfce4-settings-editor, a tool for editing ALL settings within xfconf, the
   graphical counterpart of xfconf-query.
- xfsettingsd, a daemon for exporting XSettings to applications.

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crimesaucer

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 103

Re: What does the 'xfce4-settings-helper' do?

Hi

According to the description of the Debian package:

xfce4-settings is the Xfce settings manager front-end. It comes with several different components for configuring application-independent settings inside xfconf. It contains multiple tools:

- xfce4-settings-manager (which replaces the old mcs settings manager),
   which executes the various (provided) settings dialogs
- xfce4-settings-helper: a daemon which provides special features, like
   keyboard shortcuts,  AccessX notification and update of keyboard and
   mouse-pointer data
- xfce4-settings-editor, a tool for editing ALL settings within xfconf, the
   graphical counterpart of xfconf-query.
- xfsettingsd, a daemon for exporting XSettings to applications.

Thank you Wapush. I had turned it off in my autostarted apps for a day so far and it didn't affect my default keyboard shortcuts, and it didn't seem to effect my mouse (which uses the xf86-input-synaptics driver). My keyboard seems fine, my keytouch multimedia buttons still work perfectly, and I'm not sure what 'AccessX' is so I can't say if everything is still the same.

BlackTornado

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Registered: 2009-04-26

Posts: 7

Re: What does the 'xfce4-settings-helper' do?

Hi

According to the description of the Debian package:

xfce4-settings is the Xfce settings manager front-end. It comes with several different components for configuring application-independent settings inside xfconf. It contains multiple tools:

- xfce4-settings-manager (which replaces the old mcs settings manager),
   which executes the various (provided) settings dialogs
- xfce4-settings-helper: a daemon which provides special features, like
   keyboard shortcuts,  AccessX notification and update of keyboard and
   mouse-pointer data
- xfce4-settings-editor, a tool for editing ALL settings within xfconf, the
   graphical counterpart of xfconf-query.
- xfsettingsd, a daemon for exporting XSettings to applications.

Thank you Wapush. I had turned it off in my autostarted apps for a day so far and it didn't affect my default keyboard shortcuts, and it didn't seem to effect my mouse (which uses the xf86-input-synaptics driver). My keyboard seems fine, my keytouch multimedia buttons still work perfectly, and I'm not sure what 'AccessX' is so I can't say if everything is still the same.

Hi...
I have turned it off too... But it is always present in system-monitor, and if I kill it, it will revive in few seconds...
Did you kill it permanently?

crimesaucer

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 103

Re: What does the 'xfce4-settings-helper' do?

Hi

According to the description of the Debian package:

Thank you Wapush. I had turned it off in my autostarted apps for a day so far and it didn't affect my default keyboard shortcuts, and it didn't seem to effect my mouse (which uses the xf86-input-synaptics driver). My keyboard seems fine, my keytouch multimedia buttons still work perfectly, and I'm not sure what 'AccessX' is so I can't say if everything is still the same.

Hi...
I have turned it off too... But it is always present in system-monitor, and if I kill it, it will revive in few seconds...
Did you kill it permanently?

I just checked it and it seems to be running..... so maybe it gets started some other way? I haven't tried to kill the xfce4-settings-helper process yet, I'm going to research this some more first.