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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 Bot on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:57PM

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:57PM (#467117) Journal

    I tend to use xfce as main desktop, does the job well, I also don't recall problems with thunar. I mostly use the shell for moving around files, but I recall a multifile copy operation successfully resumed after the usb cable of the external hd disconnected momentarily. I also like the multiple file rename options.

    Stay sane, xfce.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @11:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @11:54PM (#467163)

    14.04 - Had no problems with Thunar.
    16.04 - Thunar is crash happy when moving files around and renaming.

    Also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar/+bug/1512120 [launchpad.net]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:48AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @09:48AM (#467309)

      Same experience here.

      16.04 crashes when drag/dropping files from the Desktop to a folder.

      Not that it's xfce, but it also hangs on shutdown some of the time forcing a hard stop.