Xfce for Slackware Users

Regnad Kcin · 07-11-2020, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SCerovec

Are people copying Apple again at bad design?

I was replacing Grub with WalrusGum so I could have walrus gum boot but i can't get it all to come together right now the mojo filter is smoked; it's a bad production.

cwizardone · 07-11-2020, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regnad Kcin

I was replacing Grub with WalrusGum so I could have walrus gum boot but i can't get it all to come together right now the mojo filter is smoked; it's a bad production.

Brilliant!
Here you go,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oolpPmuK2I8

The .gif image below is an animated parody of the classic album cover. Doesn't seem to work here (on this site).

cwizardone · 07-16-2020, 09:51 AM

xfconf-4.15.0, has been released.

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tag name xfconf-4.15.0 (bb53d4b246af28672ac9352204a9ab2ad2abb722)
tag date 2020-07-16 11:37:20 +0200
tagged object commit f207ba8c25...
download xfconf-4.15.0.tar.gz
4.15.0 release

- Implement custom test driver
- Use 'gsettings' as a common channel name for the GSetting backend
- Bug #14789 Fix GSettings backend assertion error, when probed but not used
- Enable GSettings backend build by default
- Add Bash completion for xfconf-query
- Bug #15960: Add some missing xfconf_shutdown() in xfconf-query
- Bug #15951: Fix 'xfconf_get_error_quark' introspecting warning
- Remove perl bindings
- Fix vala binding in dist tarball
- Translation Updates..........

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfconf/tag/?h=xfconf-4.15.0

cwizardone · 07-20-2020, 10:16 AM

A recent Xfce blog update about,

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Xfce infrastructure in 2020

July 18, 2020Skunnyk

Oh boy, 3 years without any blogpost ! So much things happened in the Xfce world!
First, we finally released Xfce 4.14 in August 2019, more than 4 years of effort, a migration to gtk3, and so much new things, but you already know that, and you surely already run it. We are now working on Xfce 4.16 , with the hope to release it this year (yes, in 2020) !
You can read more development news on our blog.
Some buzzwords: new icons, CSD, drop of gtk2 support, UI revamp, and tons of other stuff......

The full story can be found at, https://blog.xfce.org/

cwizardone · 07-21-2020, 10:34 AM

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-2.4.5 has been released.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x...n-2.4.5.tar.gz

The change log,

Quote:

- Fix saving plugin title with overridden default text. (Bug #16822)
- Fix extra key press to select search items. (Issue #8)
- Fix icon view skipping first item when pressing arrow key.
- Fix incorrect signal name.
- Fix nonfunctional grab check.
- Translation updates:,,,,,,

https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x.../tag/?h=v2.4.5

cwizardone · 07-23-2020, 09:40 AM

Well, that didn't take long.

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-2.4.6 has been released.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x...n-2.4.6.tar.gz

The change log,

Quote:

- Fix crash during grab check. (Issue #19)
- Fix background incorrect without compositing.

https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/x...plugin/commit/

SCerovec · 07-26-2020, 05:20 AM

Oh dear, they are dropping support for GTK2

9_9

cwizardone · 07-28-2020, 09:31 AM

xfwm4-4.14.3 has been released.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/snap...-4.14.3.tar.gz

The change log,

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+4.14.3
+======
+
+- Add support for XRes X11 extension to get the PID of sandboxed apps
+- Fix use-after-free of settings strings (xfce/xfwm4#406)
+- More XError traps (xfce/xfwm4#405)
+- I18n:
+ Update translations:..........

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/comm...d9a0449bf8b981

mlpa · 07-31-2020, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlpa

The USB drive has detected by the kernel, and I was able to mount it using the mount command in a terminal.

Quote:

I also got this error if I run thunar from the terminal and connect a usb drive:
(thunar:2582): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 19:39:09.338: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported

(thunar-volman:2603): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 19:39:13.476: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type "usb".

(thunar-volman:2608): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 19:39:13.507: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type "usb-storage".

(thunar-volman:2614): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: 19:39:14.626: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported
thunar-volman: Could not detect the volume corresponding to the device.

I have usdik2 (from rworkman) properly installed.
Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

cwizardone · 08-14-2020, 09:00 AM

Apparently Xfce-4.16pre1 is due out this month. I'll believe when it happens.

For more information please see this post from board member Lancsuk,

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...02#post6154402

Thanks Lancsuk for the heads up.

There has also been an update to Xfce4-session,
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-sess...session-4.15.0

And....
Over the last couple of days Mr. Volkerding has been kind enough to
update both tumbler and garcon in -current.
http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/sla.../ChangeLog.txt

cwizardone · 08-14-2020, 02:17 PM

An an update to the update.

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Fri Aug 14 18:56:08 UTC 2020
.............
xfce/garcon-0.6.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Switched back to 0.6.4 since that is actually the latest stable release.
xfce/tumbler-0.2.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Switched back to 0.2.9 since that is actually the latest stable release.
+--------------------------+

cwizardone · 08-19-2020, 09:19 AM

Garcon-0.7.1 has been released.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/xfce/garcon/sna...n-0.7.1.tar.gz

The change log,

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0.7.1
- Drop support for Gtk2
- Drop Gtk3 ifdefs
- Switch to xfce_gtk_image_menu_item
- Add support for GObject Introspection (Fixes #4)
- Improve GObject introspection annotations (Fixes #8)
- Fix missing transfer annotation
- Field codes expansion API update
- Transfer some code to libxfce4util
- Fix default merge rules in xfce-applications.menu (Bug #15504)
- Rename exo-helpers to the new xfce4-xx ones
- Do not add INSTALL in dist tarball
- Fix a memory leak
- Switch to README.md and foreign automake mode
- README: Use table for debug arguments
- Add basic GitLab pipeline
- Translation Updates:.....

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/garcon/tag/?h=garcon-0.7.1

cwizardone · 08-19-2020, 09:24 AM

Xfce4-settings-4.15.2 has been released.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-sett...-4.15.2.tar.gz

The change log,

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4.15.2
- appearance: Fix width of DPI spinbutton (Bug #16125)
- appearence: Sync theme, icon, font names to gsettings
- appearance: Fix list refresh on DnD (Fixes #213)
- appearance: Drop toolbar style setting (Bug #16665)
- display: Initial fractional scaling support (Fixes #162)
- display: Custom scale changes are display changes
- display: Improve layout in settings dialog
- display: Resize display widget according to scale
- display: Move scaling presets to glade
- display: Set minimum scale to 0.1
- display: Improve state machine for scaling option
- xfsettingsd: Correctly get current xrandr scale
- mime-settings: Rename dialog and icon to 'Default Applications'
- mime-settings: Fix window icon name
- mime-settings: Fix double free
- mime-helpers: Fix Nautilus icon name
- mime-helpers: Rename Thunar to thunar
- Rename Thunar to thunar in make and potfiles
- Expand desktop entry field codes
- keyboard-settings: Support libxfce4ui XfceTitledDialog new API
- keyboard: Show shortcuts with keycap class
- settings-manager: Ensure searchbox has initial focus (Bug #16890)
- settings-manager: Simplify redrawing of search results (Fixes #141)
- settings-manager: Hide filter entry in plugged dialogs
- Convert xfce4-compose-mail to Python
- Add dependency to Python3
- Use just binary name (instead of full path) as argument
- Don't crash when upowerd isnt present (bug #60)
- Always install shiny new icons
- Drop libxfce4ui 4.15.1 ifdefs
- Fix xfconf-related memory leaks
- Update .gitignore
- Fix typo
- Translation Updates:.............

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-sett...ettings-4.15.2

cwizardone · 08-20-2020, 03:55 PM

Exo-4.15.2 has been released.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/snapsh...-4.15.2.tar.gz

The chnnge log,

Quote:

4.15.2
- icon-chooser-dialog: Allow removing selected icon (Fixes #2)
- desktop-item-edit: Fix sensitivity of save button (Fixes #28)
- Rework exo_icon_view_scroll_event for overshoot effect (Fixes #25)
- Allow resizing the xfce4-settings window smaller (Fixes #19)
- Drop exo-csource from exo
- Fix build on OpenBSD (!2)
- Fix race condition in make install (Fixes #29)
- Remove unused perl module requirement
- Replace bugzilla occurences with gitlab (Fixes #30)
- Translation Updates:............

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/tag/?h=exo-4.15.2

lancsuk · 08-21-2020, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

xfce4-panel-4.15.3 has been releasaed.

The tarball, https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-pane...-4.15.3.tar.gz

The change log, https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-pane...4-panel-4.15.3

I've updated Xfce this morning,to build xfce4-panel-4.15.3 requires dbusmenu-gtk3 as well.