Frequently Asked Questions - Razor-qt/razor-qt GitHub Wiki

How can I change the window manager ?

razor-qt is a Desktop_environment that runs on top of a Window Manager that runs on top of X Windows. Razor-qt works with various Window managers, most of Razor developers use Openbox, but it's not a problem to take any modern WM from fwwm2 to kwin (yes, KDE without Plasma Desktop is possible too).

You can set your preferred WM in:

Menu > Preferences > Razor-qt settings > Razor Session Configuration

How do I customise the task manager ?

Right-click on an empty space on the task manager and click "Configure." You will be presented with a window allowing you to select

  • Show windows from current desktop
  • Show windows form all desktops
  • Button style (Icon and text, Icon only, or Text only)
  • Max button width

How do I add a application to the quicklaunch panel

You can simply drag and drop applications to the quick launch panel from the main menu.

For example if you wish to add the qtFM file manager to the panel you first need to locate it in the menu.

Razor Menu > Accessories > qtFM (Qt File Manager)

The drag it down to the panel.

You can change order of the items on the quicklaunch panel by right clicking on the icon you wish to move and select either Move left or Move right

How do I change the date and time format in the clock ?

You can right click on the clock plugin and select clock then Configure. The Razor Clock settings window then presents a number of options including

  • Show seconds
  • 12 hour style
  • Show date
  • Show date in new line
  • Date format drop down with some common selections

If you wish to have a different format, for example "2012-10-04" for date and "16:38:09" for time, then you can modify some entries in the file ~/.config/razor/razor-panel (this may be ~/.razor/razor-panel in versions less than 0.4.1). Modify the value of the keys dateFormat and timeFormat in the [clock2] section.

[clock2]
dateFormat=yyyy-MM-dd
timeFormat=HH:mm

Further information on the format can be found here

How do I change the time in the clock to display other time zones ?

Unfortunately the clock applet can only display local times issue.

There is also "worldclock" panel plugin which supports multiple time zones, but it requires additional external library ICU and therefore its presence on all systems is not guaranteed.

When I click on menu in the mount plugin disk is opened in the browser.

This is a bug in the xdg-utils, this bug was fixed on last stable version of it. So ask maintainers to update package in the your distributive. Just now you can fix it run the next commands

For Dolphin

$ xdg-mime default dolphin.desktop application/x-directory
$ xdg-mime default dolphin.desktop inode/directory

Chromium browser not opening downloaded files correctly in Razor

This is a bug in the xdg-utils, this bug was fixed on last stable version of it. So ask maintainers to update package in the your distributive. Now Razor-qt contains own fixed version of xdg-mime and xdg-open. (/usr/lib64/razor-xdg-tools).

In some distos Chromium use your own xdg-mime (for example /usr/lib/chromium-browser/xdg-mime in Ubuntu) so our fixed versions of the xdg-utils don't work. Just now you can fix it run the next command (in this example we associate zip file with ark application):

$ xdg-mime default ark.desktop application/zip