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

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 tekk on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:59PM

    by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:59PM (#467119)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @10:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @10:11PM (#467125)

    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

      by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:34AM (#467196)

      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

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @04:12PM (#467428)

      For values of "every so often" less than 8 days...

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:08AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 17 2017, @05:08AM (#468090)

        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.