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Damned, have I not already told you to just stick to Seamonkey in another thread of yours!
Seamonkey is good man, and does not contain al the crap that comes with newer firefoxes. Also the telemetry is off by default in Seamonkey. And you want it light? Well, disable javascript manually or with an addon, and it's light.
I don't have good results with midory. If you want really light, netsurf might be a better option. It's actively developed, and I think it used the fltk toolkit, which is pretty light.
Bahaha! Yes... but it is an obsession... I just can't accept that it won't work! It has to work.... I just don't understand. It works on my elementary OS machine... so it must be something I am doing.
Last edited by poetgrant; 08-11-2019 at 09:48 AM.
Reason: Adding screenshot
It's kind of funny that they're waiting till the 11th hour since they even had the luxury of a pre3. Still, I'm sure it's going to drop pretty much any minute now, after which I wait with bated breath for it to be moved into -current.
Following that, all we need is the new LTS kernel and I'm sure we'll be miles closer to the fabled 15.0 beta.
Xfce 4.14 released
AUG
12
2019
Today, after 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.14, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.12.
In this 4.14 cycle the main goal was to port all core components to Gtk3 (over Gtk2) and GDBus (over D-Bus GLib). Most components also received GObject Introspection support. Along the way we ended up polishing our user experience, introducing quite a few new features and improvements (read below) and fixings a boatload of bugs (read changelog)......
Thank you for the packages. Greatly appreciated.
So far, gKrellm is having trouble. It crashes and returns the following error:
Quote:
The program 'gkrellm' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)'.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Update:
I've encounter the same three problems originally reported back in May with the pre-1 release.
1. The panel/preferences/appearance section is now missing the "Alpha" option, making it impossible to have a transparent panel, yet maintain brightness and color in the icons on the panel.
2. The icons within the "Notification" area are minuscule to nearly too small to notice.
3. It makes a real mess of XSnow. Santa is a moving blur and the 'snow' looks like string confetti falling down the screen.
I've encounter the same three problems originally reported back in May with the pre-1 release.
1. The panel/preferences/appearance section is now missing the "Alpha" option, making it impossible to have a transparent panel, yet maintain brightness and color in the icons on the panel.
2. The icons within the "Notification" area are minuscule to nearly too small to notice.
3. It makes a real mess of XSnow. Santa is a moving blur and the 'snow' looks like string confetti falling down the screen.
Back to the "stable version" for now.
For #1, I don't think I understand, but file an upstream bug.
For #2, nobody else has reported that, and it's definitely not occurring here. I'm (still) inclined to blame your GTK theme.
For #3, I can't even. File bug(s) upstream at one or both - I don't even know which one.
In this 4.14 cycle the main goal was to port all core components to Gtk3 (over Gtk2)...
Well, it seems it is time for me to look for an alternative. It's a pity, I've been using Xfce since version 4.2 and really liked it all these years. I can tolerate individual GTK3 programs, but a whole GTK3 desktop environment is way too much for me.
Well, it seems it is time for me to look for an alternative. It's a pity, I've been using Xfce since version 4.2 and really liked it all these years. I can tolerate individual GTK3 programs, but a whole GTK3 desktop environment is way too much for me.
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It has to work.... I just don't understand. It works on my elementary OS machine... so it must be something I am doing.
