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Upcoming XFCE Releases

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday February 14 2017, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the upgrade-treadmill dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

News for users of the desktop environment XFCE:

xfce4-taskmanager 1.2.0

This is a new release which brings a handy feature, i.e. identifying windows by clicking on them. Just use the crosshair-button in the toolbar and click on a window. This will result in the appropriate/associated process being selected in the tree or listview.
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xfce4-notifyd 0.3.5

This long-awaited feature release finally brings the persistence support I have been working on for a while. So you can now enable a notification log and get your "away log" easily this way. There are even some options to only get the log for certain apps or only with "do not disturb" mode enabled.
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Thunar 1.6.11

This maintenance release brings some important fixes that have made users complain a lot in the recent past – and understandably so. Thunar was fairly unstable with copy, rename, move and drag-and-drop operations and would simply crash. While a lot of people in the community did testing (and whining :)), several folks got to work, identified the underlying issue and submitted patches (that I pushed recently).

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  • (Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:31PM

    by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:31PM (#467108) Homepage Journal

    I've been an XFCE user ever since Gnome 3 became a thing. Honestly, it's just about everything I've ever wanted in a Desktop Environment. On occasion though, I do miss some of the visual wizardry I used to get with the compiz on Metacity. Oh well.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:31AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:31AM (#467195) Journal

    Ditto. I ran Gnome for something like 15 years. Gnome3 and Unity were a double brick wall. Switched to XFCE, with LXDE on a couple older machines, and haven't looked back. Some of the alternatives in the thread sound interesting, though, so should be fun to try out on a rainy Saturday.

    I am glad for the updates to Thunar. It has always felt a little flaky.

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    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday February 15 2017, @03:30AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @03:30AM (#467212) Journal

      Same here: ran gnome since 1999-2000

      Using xfce and i3 now due to bloat. I need speed and resources more than eye candy.

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    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:22PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:22PM (#467549) Homepage Journal

      Switched to XFCE, with LXDE on a couple older machines

      Thanks, I have an old Gateway laptop that would be very useful to me if it had an OS other than XP. XFCE wouldn't work on it, (no distro has so far) but maybe LDXE might. I'll have to try it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:20AM (#467276)

    apropos visual wizardry (XFCE + comp!z): http://paste.opensuse.org/76644865 [opensuse.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @11:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @11:30AM (#467335)

    I also switched to Xfce at the time Gnome became too bulky. And the interface has stayed mostly the same since, which is imho a good thing.