'Xfce' Category
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Dec 23
2012Work in progress to improve keyboard shortcuts in Xfce
Long time no blog! I started to hack again last week with the goal of improving keyboard shortcuts handling in Xfce. I touched that during the Xfce 4.10 cycle and this unfortunately seem to have introduced a bunch of bugs that I’m now trying to res…
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Nov 04
2012How to start contributing to Xfce or any other open source project
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this website and even longer since
I’ve written anything useful. But since I’ve received a couple of mails
from people looking to contribute to Xfce recently, I thought I’d share
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Jul 30
2012Vim and Vala
I once wrote a quick note about Vala and Vim (or Vim and Vala) and the use of the Tag List plugin. Here is a clean post about these two beasts.Vim — probably the best editor out there, at least always after trying out different editors I end up with …
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May 01
2012Questions after the 4.10 release
A short post to answerer some questions I’ve ready in comments on the 4.10 release news across the internet. If you have more questions, let me know in the comments and I’ll try to answer them. A new stable release after 16 months? And no 4.8.1 release… This is because Xfce has a different release [...]
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Apr 28
2012Xfce 4.10 released!
Today, after 1 year and 4 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.10, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.8. In the 4.10 cycle we mainly focused on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways. Highlights of this release are: A new [...]
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Apr 14
2012Xfce 4.10pre2 released!
Xfce 4.10pre2 is now available for download. It includes the following releases of Xfce core components: exo 0.7.3 garcon 0.1.12 gtk-xfce-engine 2.99.3 libxfce4ui 4.9.2 libxfce4util 4.9.1 thunar 1.3.2 thunar-volman 0.7.1 tumbler 0.1.24 xfce4-appfinder 4.9.5 xfce4-dev-tools 4.9.2 xfce4-panel 4.9.2 xfce4-power-manager 1.1.0 xfce4-session 4.9.1 xfce4-settings 4.9.5 xfconf 4.9.1 xfdesktop 4.9.3 xfwm4 4.9.1 Individual tarballs are available for [...]
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Apr 10
2012We’re still looking for mirrors
Since we’re using MirrorBrain to distribute the Xfce packages a number of good mirrors were collected. However, as you can see in the picture below, South America and Asia are not covered with good local mirrors. So I you have the possibility to become and Xfce mirror located in these continents, please read this page!
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Apr 01
2012Xfce 4.10pre1 released!
Xfce 4.10pre1 is now available for download. It includes the following releases of Xfce core components: exo 0.7.2 garcon 0.1.11 gtk-xfce-engine 2.99.2 libxfce4ui 4.9.1 libxfce4util 4.9.0 thunar 1.3.1 thunar-volman 0.7.0 tumbler 0.1.24 xfce4-appfinder 4.9.4 xfce4-dev-tools 4.9.1 xfce4-panel 4.9.1 xfce4-power-manager 1.0.11 xfce4-session 4.9.0 xfce4-settings 4.9.4 xfconf 4.9.0 xfdesktop 4.9.2 xfwm4 4.9.0 Individual tarballs are available for [...]
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Mar 05
2012RAW files with ristretto – (GtkPixbufLoader mimetype recognition bug)
In the release-notes for ristretto 0.3.5 last weekend, I mentioned the following: Most problems with ristretto are actually caused by incorrect mime-type recognition of the operating-system, identifying raw files (like canon’s CR2 format) as TIFF files. This will result in an error from the tiff loader, these errors are now displayed in the UI, making [...]
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Feb 09
2012FOSDEM 2012
This year’s FOSDEM is over and I hope that most of us have by now recovered from an exhausting weekend that was first and foremost exciting and a lot of fun! With about 12 people, the Xfce group was—I think—larger than ever before…