Xfce for Slackware Users

Paulo2 · 05-27-2023, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ndavilam

Hello friends, I have a problem.
After a few minutes xfce crashes, but when trying to unlock my computer there is a black screen.
This did not happen weeks ago.
Do you know why this happens?

Slackware -current? Just

I think Xfce screensaver is starting by default now, what does happen if you disable (or configure) it?

ndavilam · 05-27-2023, 10:23 AM

I think it has to do with this post that I didn't see before because of my bad practice.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...te-4175725421/

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulo2

Slackware -current? Just

I think Xfce screensaver is starting by default now, what does happen if you disable (or configure) it?

cwizardone · 07-04-2023, 08:32 AM

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xfce4-settings 4.18.3 released (2023/07/04 10:09)

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-set...latest_release
But I don't see an updated change log. Perhaps, it has yet to be posted.

marav · 07-04-2023, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-set...latest_release
But I don't see an updated change log. Perhaps, it has yet to be posted.

Code:

4.18.3 (2023-07-04)
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- Displays: Fix finding a valid mode by refresh rate
- dialogs: Secure use of GSettings
- xfsettingsd: Fix wrong test for property removal
- xfsettingsd: Update also the type when updating a value
- keyboard-settings: Fix critical when opening layout selection dialog
- appearance-install-theme: Fix error message
- appearance-install-theme: Do not mention file size in error message
- appearance-install-theme: Check for theme package validity
- appearance-install-theme: Update GTK icon cache after installing
- appearance-install-theme: detect icon themes first (#271)
- appearance-install-theme: make cleanup safer
- appearance-install-theme: Use recommended way of command substitution.
- appearance-install-theme: Convert to POSIX
- Update bug report address
- display: Check for XError on transform apply
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian,
  Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese
  (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
  Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English
  (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek,
  Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian,
  Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål,
  Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese,
  Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian,
  Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-s...xfce-4.18/NEWS

;-)

allend · 08-12-2023, 10:50 AM

Just curious. I just noticed that the orage calendar app has been revitalised with a stable 4.18 release earlier this year with significant changes since 4.12.1 that was dropped from Slackware. Can anybody share their experience of building and running the latest orage calendar app?

chemfire · 08-14-2023, 08:15 AM

I just built it because I used to use Orange and simple as it is it was the basic reminders app I needed. I grabbed the old slackbuild from 14.2, and used it to build the 4.18.0 release, on 15.0. Compiled/built/runs and seems to work just fine.

In terms of features and what not it seems pretty much unchanged from 4.12.0 just supports updated XFCE and libs.

allend · 08-14-2023, 11:03 AM

Yes, I have done the same thing. I notice the option to add a tray icon has gone and it just loads into the tray automatically. The update to GTK3 means that my dark theme is applied.

I edited out the specification of the includes to libical to see whether the comment about libical's pkgconfig file being incomplete still applies, but I am not sure of how best to test this.
Could be fun to build radicale from SlackBuilds.org as a simple CalDAV server to see whether I can sync the calendar on my iPhone, but that apparently involves some dancing around with SSL certificates.

Another annoyance with 4.12.1 that I saw was how orage would pop open after fiddling with displays using xrandr. This looks as though it is supposed to be fixed, but I no longer have the system that I could easily trigger this on. Still working on a new test case.

allend · 09-05-2023, 12:03 PM

Just a follow up.
The problem with orage popping open when an external monitor is plugged/unpluggeg is still occurring for me.
Yes, I can import and export calendars successfully with my build of orage that does not specify the libraries.
I now have radicale running behind an Apache reverse proxy backed with a wildcard SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt. Learning how to successfully complete an ACME dns-01 challenge using dnsmasq on a server behind a modem with a dynamic DNS address took some time.

cwizardone · 09-13-2023, 09:00 AM

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Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated
By Michael Larabel. 13 September 2023.
Xfce 4.18 released last December with some strides on the Wayland front for this lightweight GTK-based desktop environment, but more work remains before Xfce will be fully compatible with Wayland and its own robust compositor. The Xfce Wayland road-map was recently updated to reflect the latest work on this major undertaking.........

The full story can be read at, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Wayland-Roadmap-2023

cwizardone · 09-16-2023, 09:47 AM

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xfce4-appfinder 4.19.1 released

The change log, https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-a...ob/master/NEWS

cwizardone · 09-21-2023, 07:25 PM

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xfce4-notifyd 0.9.1 released

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-not...latest_release

cwizardone · 10-12-2023, 07:05 PM

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thunar 4.19.0 released (2023/10/10)

The very long change log, https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/blob/master/NEWS

garpu · 10-12-2023, 08:10 PM

https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugin...in/-/issues/66

Can someone recommend a good weather plugin for XFCE4? Looks like this one is having issues, if your longitude is negative, and while I'm told Kazakhstan is an interesting place, moving there would mean one hell of a commute.

BSD_areMyInitials · 10-14-2023, 01:40 PM

I’m on Slackware 15.0 (not-current). Don’t know if I should post here or create a new thread. Creating a new thread seemed wasteful since this thread is about eveything related to Xfce. Let me know if I should delete this and create a new thread instead.

I've come across a problem with xfce4-appfinder, and I'm not sure if it is a bug that exists upstream or Slackware's defaults as I don't have a secondary device I can use to check for this bug in the latest version of xfce4-appfinder.

I always install Slackware without /e and /kde. I use Xfce as my main DE. I also use xfce4-appfinder for launching applications when I'm too lazy to move my hand over to the mouse.

Just now, for the first time ever, I mistyped "gvim" as "vim" in xfce4-appfinder. My X11 session froze. By that I mean everything was unresponsive except for the mouse. I could move it but not click anything. No new window opened, nothing happened. Tried to Alt+Fn<number> to switch to another session, that did not always work but when it did, i tried switching back to the original session and everything was still frozen. I couldn't figure out what caused the issue, so I tried these:

1) Reboot-ed and changed the default terminal back to the default xfce4-terminal, tried the same thing. Issue persists, everything froze.

2) Opened a new session, spawned a terminal and manually invoked "xfce4-appfinder"(non-collapsed) which, upon (intentionally) typing "vim" lead to gvim opening by default. Tried a few more times, no issue, gvim opened every single time.

3) In the same session as (2), manually invoked "xfce4-appfinder -c" (collapsed) and typed (intentionally) "vim". gvim did not run, instead after around 2 seconds, vim(terminal) opened up in the xfce4-terminal. After exiting vim, warning stated:
"Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal", which, i mean is uh, called for. Session was not affected, nothing happened.

I noticed in (2) and (3) xfce4-appfinder did not close within the terminal(I guess its supposed to be always running in the background) unless i either kill it(pid) or ctrl-c within the terminal.

If you try to replicate this, do it on a separate device or post-reboot so you won't lose any work when the DE freezes.
Now is this issue replicate-able or is it just localized to my desktop/configuration/session?

Note: I may not reply immediately due to the time difference/jetlag, i apologize in advance for my irresponsible behaviour.

Update: Problem solved after a reinstall and a full upgrade, was localized to my system/configuration, not a bug.

rizitis · 10-14-2023, 01:54 PM

I cant confirm. I followed all your steps but works as excepted... no freezes!