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Catfish 1.3.4 Released (New PPA)

  • February 1, 2016
  • Sean Davis
With a slew of updates and a new build system, Catfish 1.3.4 is now available! This update fixes a number of bugs, adds initial support for PolicyKit, and introduces a new PPA for Ubuntu users. What’s New? New Features Initial PolicyKit integration for requesting administrative rights to update the search database. Bug Fixes Fixes for … Continue reading Catfish 1.3.4 Released (New PPA)

Clock applets in the Xfce panel in Xubuntu 15.10

  • December 4, 2015
  • Pasi Lallinaho

Both Xfce and Xubuntu have had new releases relatively lately. In a way or another, this has resulted in an issue with Xubuntu 15.10 release: the Orage clock doesn’t show a transparent background even if it is set to show one. (Upstream bug in Xfce: 11915.)

Don’t be afraid! Instead of using the Orage applet, you can use the DateTime and Clock applets to get a transparent background – and while they itself do not allow for changing the color of the text in the applet, you can work around that with a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory. Here’s how.

Set up the applets

To set up the applets, simply add the DateTime and/or Clock applets to your panel. You can control the format in which the time/date is shown in the applet via their preference dialogs found from their right-click context menus.

Bear in mind, if you wish to have two different clocks in the panel, we will be using the regular panel foreground (text) color for DateTime (white for Greybird) and modify the text color for the Clock applet in the steps below.

Modify the Clock applet color

To modify the Clock applet foreground color, we will need to make a modification in a theming file. The best way to do this is to use the per-user config file, found at ~/.gtkrc-2.0. If you don’t have this file, simply create one.

The code snippet to modify the Clock applest text color is the following:

style "panel-clock-custom"
{
fg[NORMAL]    = "#66CCCC"
fg[PRELIGHT]    = "#66CCCC"
fg[ACTIVE]    = "#66CCCC"
text[NORMAL]    = "#66CCCC"
text[PRELIGHT]    = "#66CCCC"
text[ACTIVE]    = "#66CCCC"
}
widget "Xfce*Panel*clock*"    style "panel-clock-custom"

In this snippet, we’re setting the foreground color for all the Clock applets to a certain turquoise – #66CCCC – which compliments the 15.10 wallpaper well.

You can substitute this hex color value with any other that fits your needs.

The end result

For me, the end result looks like this:

Xfce panel clock applets

Have fun modifying your own!

Xubuntu 15.10 Available

  • October 18, 2015
  • Sean Davis
A new release of Xubuntu is just around the corner!  The release candidate for Xubuntu 15.10 “Wily Werewolf” is now available, with the final release expected less than a week from now on October 22.  What’s New? This list highlights several new features and applications, but is by no means exhaustive.  This post will be … Continue reading Xubuntu 15.10 Available

Parole Media Player 0.8.1 Released

  • October 17, 2015
  • Sean Davis
It’s been nearly 8 months since the first release in Parole’s 0.8 stable series. Yesterday, Parole Media Player 0.8.1 was released in time to be included in Xubuntu 15.10.  This release includes several bug fixes and makes for another great release. What’s New? New Feature-ish New hidden setting to persistently hide the menubar been sessions. This … Continue reading Parole Media Player 0.8.1 Released

Catfish 1.3.3 Released

  • October 13, 2015
  • Sean Davis
The latest version of Catfish (1.3.3) was released on October 8th.  This release follows the current development cycle where I am improving usability and tackling bugs big and small.   Changes Since 1.3.0 New Features The headerbar window decorations are now optional, and can be toggled with the use-headerbar setting Updated Translations: German, Greek, Finnish, French, … Continue reading Catfish 1.3.3 Released

Xfce Panel Switch: Introduction

  • October 13, 2015
  • Sean Davis
Xubuntu 15.10 “Wily Werewolf” introduces a new application for managing panel layouts in Xfce, Xfce Panel Switch. This is a simple utility application that fills a void for appearance tweakers and distributors alike.   Features Backup and restore panel configurations Share panel layouts with simple exporting and importing Choose from one of 5 included layouts, or … Continue reading Xfce Panel Switch: Introduction

LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.1 and Settings 1.2.0 Releases

  • May 21, 2015
  • Sean Davis
LightDM GTK+ Greeter and it’s accompanying configuration application have been updated!  A number of bugs have been fixed in the greeter, and a new multihead configuration dialog has been added to LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings. Update 2015/06/16 Both applications have been added to the Stable PPA.  Some users are reporting a solid-color background on some … Continue reading LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.1 and Settings 1.2.0 Releases

What’s New in Xubuntu 15.04

  • April 23, 2015
  • Sean Davis
Another 6 months of development has come and gone and we have a new Xubuntu release!  This release includes the hotly anticipated Xfce 4.12, released on February 28, as well as all of the typical application, appearance, documentation, and translation updates. Left: Xubuntu 14.10, Right: Xubuntu 15.04 What’s New? With the release of Xfce 4.12, … Continue reading What’s New in Xubuntu 15.04

News from Xfce 4.12, part 3

  • February 19, 2015
  • Skunnyk

A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !
Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.
First, the most awaited news ... wait for it... a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Now, I would like to draw your attention to a list of threads on the xfce4-dev mailist :

Core Apps :

xfce4-panel :

  • The intelligent panel hiding feature (see my previous post) has been released in 4.11.2 !

xfwm4 :

Oh wow, many commits, such features ! You can read the 4.11.3 announcement here

  • Add titleless maximization feature.
  • Client Side Decoration (CSD) support ! (Compositor need to be enabled). A screenshot with and without on gedit (an application that need CSD) CSD on xfwm4
  • Windows preview in alt+tab (Compositor need to be enabled too). Windows preview in alttab
  • Nice, right ? :)

xfce4-settings :

  • Release of 4.11.4
  • Add touchpad support with libinput (yes, already !)
  • Better monitor and multi monitor support
  • Add Gtk+ theme palettes in the appearance dialog (see screenshot)
  • Add previews for icon themes in appearance settings (see screenshot) Themes and icons preview

xfce4-session :

  • Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !
  • The "logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate" patch has been merged.
  • Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

  • Add support for the GTK 3 bookmarks file,
  • Bugfixes, support for binary file size units
  • Release of 1.6.4

gtk-xfce-engine :

xfce4-dev-tools :

  • Fixes, dependencies update etc
  • Release of 4.11.1

xfconf :

  • Not many exciting changes for this release, mostly translation updates, small fixes and code tweaks.. 4.11.0

Apps :

xfce4-screenshooter :

  • Support of imgur uploads ! Yes ! imgur upload
  • Release of 1.8.2 . Thank gaston !

xfce4-taskmanager :

  • Big cleanup of UI, with new treeview mode, general UI/graph overhaul and lot of bugfixes) xfce4-taskmanager
  • Release of 1.1.0 with all theses changes. Thanks gaston, ochosi and Cavalier

xfce4-power-manager :

Panel Plugins :

Some love for panel plugins, from Harald Judt and Landry Breuil, mostly build/bugfixes and translations updates :

As you can see, xfce development is more active than ever !
So be prepared to be amazed by 4.12 in a few weeks !

Sources :

News from Xfce 4.12, part 3

  • February 19, 2015
  • Skunnyk

A bunch of news from the development of Xfce 4.12 !
Since my previous post in november (read it !) , many things have happened.
First, the most awaited news … wait for it… a date has been decided ! 4.12 will released by the last week end of February 2015 ! (yes, 1 week from now)

Now, I would like to draw your attention to a list of threads on the xfce4-dev mailist :

Core Apps :

xfce4-panel :

  • The intelligent panel hiding feature (see my previous post) has been released in 4.11.2 !

xfwm4 :

Oh wow, many commits, such features ! You can read the 4.11.3 announcement here

  • Add titleless maximization feature.
  • Client Side Decoration (CSD) support ! (Compositor need to be enabled). A screenshot with and without on gedit (an application that need CSD) CSD on xfwm4
  • Windows preview in alt+tab (Compositor need to be enabled too). Windows preview in alttab
  • Nice, right ? :)

xfce4-settings :

  • Release of 4.11.4
  • Add touchpad support with libinput (yes, already !)
  • Better monitor and multi monitor support
  • Add Gtk+ theme palettes in the appearance dialog (see screenshot)
  • Add previews for icon themes in appearance settings (see screenshot) Themes and icons preview

xfce4-session :

  • Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes !
  • The “logind runtime detection to support suspend/hibernate” patch has been merged.
  • Release of 4.11.1

thunar :

  • Add support for the GTK 3 bookmarks file,
  • Bugfixes, support for binary file size units
  • Release of 1.6.4

gtk-xfce-engine :

xfce4-dev-tools :

  • Fixes, dependencies update etc
  • Release of 4.11.1

xfconf :

  • Not many exciting changes for this release, mostly translation updates, small fixes and code tweaks.. 4.11.0

Apps :

xfce4-screenshooter :

  • Support of imgur uploads ! Yes ! imgur upload
  • Release of 1.8.2 . Thank gaston !

xfce4-taskmanager :

  • Big cleanup of UI, with new treeview mode, general UI/graph overhaul and lot of bugfixes) xfce4-taskmanager
  • Release of 1.1.0 with all theses changes. Thanks gaston, ochosi and Cavalier

xfce4-power-manager :

Panel Plugins :

Some love for panel plugins, from Harald Judt and Landry Breuil, mostly build/bugfixes and translations updates :

As you can see, xfce development is more active than ever !
So be prepared to be amazed by 4.12 in a few weeks !

Sources :