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 0.3.5This 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 1.6.11This 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).
(Score: 2) by tekk on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:59PM
You definitely want to go with compton. Compton is specifically a fork of xcompmgr to fix some memory leaks in xcompmgr, otherwise you have to restart it every so often.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @10:11PM
That's not a problem for me.
$ ps uaxw|grep -E "xcompmgr|PID"
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
acoward 2578 0.2 0.0 29732 1208 ? S Feb06 24:37 xcompmgr -n -d :0
(Score: 2) by tekk on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:34AM
Huh, nice. I used to have to kill it every week or two before I moved to compton.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 15 2017, @04:12PM
For values of "every so often" less than 8 days...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:08AM
That's not the longest I've run it for, and I've never noticed a problem with it. I have noticed the X server consuming a lot of RAM.