'Xfce' Category

• May 18
  2013

  Making use of custom actions with Xfce Appfinder

  One addition in the latest versions of Appfinder was the custom actions. I never used it until after I started typing several times twitter which didn’t work (a habit from the web browser url bar).The custom actions can be useful for anything, and it’s…

  posted in Tips, Xfce by Mike Massonnet

• May 08
  2013

  Stable releases!

  Last week-end, our awesome Nick released new stable versions for almost all Xfce major components: libxfce4util, tumbler, xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, xfwm4, xfce4-settings, garcon, thunar, xfce4-terminal and tumbler (this is not am…

  posted in English, libxfce4ui, planet-xfce, release, tumbler, Xfce, xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-panel, xfce4-settings by Jérôme Guelfucci

• May 08
  2013

  Xfce4-notifyd 0.2.4

  This quick follow-up release contains a single fix contributed by “Coacher”: proper border drawing when compositing is disabled (bug #10021). It also contains a few updated translations: Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Flemish and Ind…

  posted in English, planet-xfce, release, Xfce, xfce4-notifyd by Jérôme Guelfucci

• Apr 21
  2013

  Xfce4-notifyd 0.2.3

  I’m glad to announce this new release of xfce4-notifyd which ships mostly bug fixes and code cleanups. Theming has also been improved with additional style properties and drawing fixes. Xfce4-notifyd themes may need to be updated to take advantage …

  posted in English, planet-xfce, release, Xfce, xfce4-notifyd by Jérôme Guelfucci

• Mar 19
  2013

  fonts

  i think i’ve sorted out some of my desktop font issues, and created a few more in the process. for a long time, i’ve had to deal with occasionally jagged, hard-to-read fonts when viewing webpages, because i ran my xfce … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, Linux, Xfce by nightmorph

• Mar 14
  2013

  Moving from Unique to GtkApplication

  A new class has been introduced in GTK+3 that is GtkApplication, and GApplication with GIO 2.28. A common use case is to have a single window present every time the same application or command line is run, that is also known as process uniqueness. This…

  posted in Xfce by Mike Massonnet

• Mar 10
  2013

  Xfdesktop 4.10.2

  Xfdesktop 4.10.1 introduced a regression which triggered 100% CPU usage
  when using a solid color as background. This is fixed with this new
  release, sorry for the inconvenience.

  Full changelog:

  Fix hang when no backdrop image is selected (Bug #…

  posted in English, planet-xfce, release, Xfce, xfdesktop by Jérôme Guelfucci

• Mar 02
  2013

  Xfdesktop 4.10.1

  I just released Xfdesktop 4.10.1 which contains some bug fixes and updated translations which had been there for months. Congratulations to Eric Koegel who committed most of them!

  Amongst others, fixed background cycling and improved menu icons’ …

  posted in English, planet-xfce, release, Xfce, xfdesktop by Jérôme Guelfucci

• Jan 12
  2013

  Parole 0.4.0 is out!

  A new awesome release of the Parole media player for Xfce is out and ships all the hard work of Sean Davis and Simon Steinbeiss.

  Sean wrote an extensive description of this new release on his blog, with tons of screenshots. As stated there, do no…

  posted in English, planet-xfce, release, Xfce by Jérôme Guelfucci

• Jan 05
  2013

  Xfce4-terminal 0.6.x keyboard shortcuts

  A lot of users seem to be wondering how to edit keyboard shortcuts in xfce4-terminal 0.6.x. The built-in shortcut editor is indeed gone and the application now uses editable GTK+ accelerators like other GTK+ applications. This is more consistent an…

  posted in English, planet-xfce, Xfce by Jérôme Guelfucci