'Xfce' Category

• May 27
  2011

  Changing PolicyKit settings per user

  I have been hit twice by a required authentication on my workstation after the Wifi connection got lost and it is clearly irritating, especially when you are not around. The authentication requests are handled by PolicyKit (polkit for short) and can be…

  posted in Tips, Xfce by Mike Massonnet

• May 27
  2011

  Changing PolicyKit settings per user

  I have been hit twice by a required authentication on my workstation after the Wifi connection got lost and it is clearly irritating, especially when you are not around. The authentication requests are handled by PolicyKit (polkit for short) and can be…

  posted in Tips, Xfce by Mike Massonnet

• Apr 01
  2011

  important strategic decisions

  Posting our recent decisions for Foresight Linux as sent to the mailing list by doniphon: With the ongoing mess with the gtk2 -> gtk3 migration, followed bythe announcement of the gnome reschedule, and the gnome-shell/unityrift, we do think our 2 …

  posted in foresight, GNOME, KDE, Linux, Xfce by Mark Trompell

• Mar 02
  2011

  Scale 9x: Day 3

  Sunday The final day of SCALE 9x arrived far too early, since the Gentoo developers were still recovering from the merriment the previous evening/morning. We congregated in the hotel room Mike & I shared. You know you’re having some good … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, hardware, Linux, Xfce by nightmorph

• Feb 07
  2011

  Xfce Foundation e.V. launched at FOSDEM!

  This year’s FOSDEM was a special one. Read more about it in this mail:

  Hi everyone,

  as some of you might have read, several of us Xfce developers and
  packagers have attended FOSDEM this weekend. There was a lot of talking
  and a bit of brain…

  posted in community, conference, donations, fosdem, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 19
  2011

  Xfce 4.8 on BSD flavors

  I should’ve made this more clear in the Xfce 4.8 release announcement but for a moment there I forgot that not everyone knows what we developers are dealing with under the hood.

  Many users have been asking what the BSD problems are that I m…

  posted in thunar, thunar-volman, udev, udisks, volume management, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 16
  2011

  Xfce 4.8 released!

  Today, after almost two years of work, we have the special pleasure of announcing the much awaited release of Xfce 4.8, the new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.6.
  We hope that everyone will enjoy this release as much as we do. Sadly, this wil…

  posted in community, conference, fosdem, gio, HAL, releases, thunar, transifex, translations, uds, volume management, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 15
  2011

  Looking for mirrors for archive.xfce.org

  In the last couple of days we’ve radically changed the server layout for the various Xfce domains. A new server is hosting most of the websites (php/mysql) and archive.xfce.org is now using MirrorBrain to distribute the load across the mirrors using GeoIP. Although we are very happy with the new mirrors that were kindly made [...]

  posted in Xfce by Nick

• Jan 10
  2011

  Attending FOSDEM 2011

  Today Nick and I booked hotel rooms for FOSDEM so now it’s official that the two of us will be there. I’m very much looking forward to it and I’m hoping to meet some of you at the FOSDEM Beer Event on Friday! Still need to think …

  posted in community, conference, fosdem, studies, travelling, university, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 02
  2011

  Xfce 4.8pre3 released!

  Xfce 4.8pre3 is now available for download.

  It includes the following releases of Xfce core components:

  exo 0.5.6
  gtk-xfce-engine 2.7.0
  libxfce4ui 4.7.6
  libxfce4util 4.7.5
  libxfcegui4 4.7.0
  thunar 1.1.6
  thunar-vfs 1.1.1
  xfce-utils 4.7.4…

  posted in bugs, community, releases, translations, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann