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Dec 07
2010Testing Xfce 4.8pre2
A few distributions are already starting to provide Xfce 4.8pre2 packages whether it be in the official repositories or in testing unofficial ones. I’m going to list them here, use this at your own risk.
Archlinux
Fedora: work in progress
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Dec 05
2010Xfce 4.8pre2 released!
Xfce 4.8pre2 is now available for download.
It includes the following releases of Xfce core components:
exo 0.5.5
gtk-xfce-engine 2.6.0
libxfce4ui 4.7.5
libxfce4util 4.7.4
libxfcegui4 4.7.0
thunar 1.1.5
thunar-vfs 1.1.1
xfce-utils 4.7.3
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Nov 27
2010Xfce4 Notifyd 0.2.0
Almost exactly two years after the first release of Xfce4 Notifyd, sorry for missing that, 0.2.0 is out.
Most of the work was done by Brian Tarricone, who allowed me to co-maintain this application due to his very limited free time.
The biggest…
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Nov 11
2010Xfce at OpenRheinRuhr 2010
There will be an Xfce booth at OpenRheinRuhr 2010 on the 13th and 14th of November in Oberhausen, Germany, thanks to Enrico Tröger, Christoph Wickert, Mark Trompell and Christian Dywan.
They will be available for any information request, chit ch…
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Oct 26
2010Some Xfce News
Documentation
Nick Schermer is working on the infrastructure for the new documentation. It will be written in Mallard and translatable using Transifex. There are already a few drafts available: Nick made one for Xfce4 Panel (git branch) and Jim C…
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Oct 15
2010Towards an Xfce Foundation?
Jannis Pohlmann announced two days ago on the Xfce mailing lists that he started the paperwork needed to register Xfce as a non-profit organization under the German law which would be nice because, I quote:
The benefits are obvious: Xfce would be…
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Sep 29
2010Recent Xfce Settings work
Keyboard Layouts
Use the selected keyboard layout for new sessions. Previously it was only used for the current session.
Show full language name / description instead of cryptic codes such as fr alt-oss.
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Jun 28
2010Xfce4 Display Settings status
As promised, here comes the post about recent changes in Xfce4 Display Settings. For those who do not know, Xfce4 Display Settings is the dialog which allows you to set the screen resolution, refresh rate, to activate external monitors, etc.In Xfce…
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Jun 22
2010Yes, Xfce 4.8 is delayed!
I’ve seen a lot of people on IRC lately asking why 4.8 was not released on the 12th of June as scheduled. Well, the schedule could not be respected and we currently have no scheduled release date. There is still a lot of work to do and we lost seve…
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Feb 24
2010Xfce4 XKB plugin needs a new maintainer
Alexander Iliev, the current Xfce4 XKB plugin maintainer, sent a message to the goodies-dev ML telling that he is looking for a new maintainer for xfce4-xkb-plugin. Please get in touch with him if you are interested.
xfce4-xkb-plugin currently ha…