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Xfce PulseAudio Plugin 0.4.0 (and 0.4.1) Released

  • April 21, 2018
  • Sean Davis

Stable as a rock. Xfce PulseAudio Plugin hit a new stable milestone with the 0.4.0 release. This release wraps up the awesome development cycle we’ve had on this over the last few months and is recommended for all users.

What’s New?

Since 0.2.5, the previous stable release.

Device Management

  • Added support for audio input devices
  • Added support for the XF86AudioMicMute key
  • Added ability to switch active audio devices and streams
  • Simplified audio volume controls

MPRIS2 Integration

  • New optional MPRIS2 support (play/pause, raise, track switching, playlists)
  • Added multimedia keyboard support, keys control the active media player and add keyboard support for any MPRIS2-enabled player
  • Experimental libwnck support adds support for raising windows that do not otherwise support it (Spotify included)
  • Players can be selectively hidden from the menu in the preferences dialog

General

  • Significant code cleanup, dropping unused IDO support and simplifying widgets
  • Improved memory management with numerous memory leaks patched

Translation Updates

Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

Downloads

Source tarball (md5, sha1, sha256)

Available on Debian Testing and Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver”. Included in Xubuntu 18.04.

Xfce Settings 4.12.3 / 4.13.2 Released

  • April 21, 2018
  • Sean Davis

Fixes galore! Xfce Settings 4.12.3 and 4.13.2 were released on March 18th with several improvements, feature parity, and translations. 

What’s New?

Both 4.12.3 and 4.13.2: Improvements for Multi-monitor Support

  • Visualize all three display configuration states
  • Visually note if two displays overlap (mirrored) but are not cloned
  • Always draw active display last so it’s on top
  • Fix: Correctly position monitors in extended mode
  • Fix: Race condition with monitor connect and disconnect
  • Fix: Segfault on monitor reconnect

Xfce Settings 4.13.2

  • New: Show location of the mouse pointer on keypress (Introduced in 4.12.2)
  • Fix: syncdaemon not starting with certain locales
  • Fix: division by 0 crash from gdk_screen_height_mm()
  • Fix: Remove existing socket from socket viewport (Xfce #13847)
  • Fix: Use transient notifications for improved logging
  • Fix: Do not expand event sounds section so font scaling is correctly
    positioned
  • Resolved GTK+ 3.22 deprecations (Xfce #14273)

Translation Updates

Amharic, Arabic, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, 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, Uighur, Ukrainian

Downloads

Xfce Settings 4.12.3

Source tarball (md5, sha1, sha256)

Available in Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver”. Included in Xubuntu 18.04.

Xfce Settings 4.13.2

Source tarball (md5, sha1, sha256)

Available in the Xubuntu QA Experimental PPA