Catfish 1.4.7 Released
What’s New?
General
Cleaner, easier to read manpage contents
Information about the
--pathcommand-line flag was added to help and the manpageUpdated AppStream components to align with the latest specification
Replaced project URLs with HTTPS where possible
Desktop Integration
The window layout now respects the current desktop (Xfce #14486)
A headerbar layout is used for Budgie, GNOME, and Pantheon
All other desktops use the traditional titlebar layout
This option can be overridden using the use-headerbar option
in the Catfish configuration file (~/.config/catfish/catfish.rc)Files can now be dragged into other applications (Xfce #14492)
For file managers, the files will usually be copied to that location
For other applications, the files will be opened by the application
Performance
Thumbnails will now only be generated when the thumbnail view is active (Xfce #14689)
Added /dev to list of standard excluded directories
Files within /dev can still be searched if explicitly selected by the user
Bug Fixes
Quoted search strings now allow for searching for specific phrases, instead of searching for actual quote characters (Xfce #14501)
The file context menu can now be opened multiple times (Xfce #14621)
Fix crash as startup when Catfish enables multi-file selection (LP #1753163)
Translation Updates
Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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Exo 0.12.4 Released
What’s New?
General
Exo once again uses the same thumbnail directories as other applications (Xfce #14799), resulting in reduced disk usage.
Where everything else moved to ~/.cache/thumbnails quite some time ago, Exo continued to use ~/.thumbnails. Enjoy all the extra disk space!
Bug Fixes
ExoCellRendererIcon: Fix highlight rendering with GTK 3 (Xfce #14971)
ExoIconView: Fix search popup placement (Xfce #14994)
Additionally, a long-standing bug where the type-ahead search widget would be drawn partially off the screen for maximized windows, has been fixed!
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Translation Updates
Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China), German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai
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Xfce Screensaver 0.1.3 Released
What’s New?
Features
All available configuration options are now available in the Preferences dialog, boosting the easily accessible options from 4 to 13!
Idle time is now based on the X11 Screensaver plugin instead of the GNOME Session Manager.
Xfce Screensaver now respects the xdg-screensaver state, inhibiting the screensaver when using apps like Caffeine or watching a fullscreen video.
Screensaver and lock screen functionality can easily now be toggled separately.
General
All deprecated DBUS methods and signals have been removed from the documentation.
Documentation has been written and is available at on the Xfce Docs site. Available docs include:
Preferences
Bug Fixes
Replaced Help link with a link to the Xfce Docs (Xfce #14877)
Added /usr/lib and /usr/libexec as trusted engine paths, enabling local installs on Linux with access to existing screensavers (Xfce #14883)
Fixed screen blanking and locking on FreeBSD and OpenBSD (Xfce #14846)
Fixed lock screen crash on laptop lid-close events (GTK #1466)
Fixed daemon crash when scrolling through available themes
Improved window size resizing for smaller displays
Renamed included screensavers to avoid conflicts with MATE Screensaver
Reduced flicker rate when multiple keyboard layouts are available (still not fully fixed, but greatly improved)
Build Improvements
Silenced warning: ar: ‘u’ modifier ignored since ‘D’ is the default
Fixed warning: Target given more than once in the same rule
Code Quality
Applied cpplint fixes and added cpplint configuration file
Cleaned up unused variables, trailing spaces, and deprecated code
Glade templates were cleaned up and organized for easier maintenance
Translation Updates
Albanian, Basque, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Malay, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish
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The new Xfce Screensaver documentation.
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This is the first beta release of Xfce Screensaver. While still not recommended for production machines, this is a great time to test and report bugs so we can put together an awesome stable release soon.
Xubuntu users (18.04, 18.10, and 19.04) can grab the package from the Xubuntu QA Experimental PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/experimentalsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install xfce4-screensaver
Remember to also remove or exit light-locker and start xfce4-screensaver (or log out and back in) and add support for xfce4-screensaver to the xflock4 script.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.1 Released
What’s New?
General
Added support for color settings from Xfdesktop 4.12 and 4.13
The black fallback color has been replaced with the Xfdesktop default
The interface files for the preferences dialog and lock screen are now compiled and included in the binaries
The warning displayed as the root user is now an InfoBar to make it more visible
Screensaver Preferences can now be embedded in the Xfce Settings Manager
Bug Fixes
Fix crash when no background placement is configured (Xfce #14769)
Redraw the screensaver on monitor configuration events (Xfce #14796)
Automate detection of PAM configuration, add a new flag to override (Xfce #14779)
Notify the user when Xfce Power Manager has an incompatible configuration and include a button to resolve it (Xfce #14782)
The unlock dialog is now correctly drawn with the Adwaita GTK theme
Fix builds on OpenBSD, build status can now be tracked on the Xfce Build Bot
Translations (All NEW!)
Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Packaging
With just a single release, packaging for the new screensaver is starting to appear all over the place! If you know of any other places it’s been packaged, drop me a line. 🙂
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Please be aware that this is alpha-quality software. It is not currently recommended for use in production machines. Please continue to test it, report bugs, provide feedback, and submit patches so we can make the best screensaver and locker possible for Xfce.
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 Released
Xfce Screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the Xfce desktop.
It is a port of MATE Screensaver, itself a port of GNOME Screensaver. It has been tightly integrated with the Xfce desktop, utilizing Xfce libraries and the Xfconf configuration backend.
Features
Integration with the Xfce Desktop per-monitor wallpaper
Locking down of configuration settings via Xfconf
DBUS interface to limited screensaver interaction
Full translation support into many languages
Shared styles with LightDM GTK+ Greeter
Support for XScreensaver screensavers
User switching
Requirements
DBus >= 0.30
GLib >= 2.50.0
GTK+ >= 3.22.0
X11 >= 1.0
garcon >= 0.5.0
libxklavier >= 5.2
libxfce4ui >= 4.12.1
libxfce4util >= 4.12.1
Xfconf >= 4.12.1
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Please be aware that this is alpha-quality software. It is not currently recommended for use in production machines. I invite you to test it, report bugs, provide feedback, and submit patches so we can get it ready for the world.
Xfce4 Panel Profiles (Formerly Xfpanel Switch) 1.0.8 Released
What’s New?
At Home With Xfce
Bug Fixes
Failure to save some panel configurations (LP: #1765565)
Crash on corrupted panel configs (LP: #1765565)
Apply more strict logic when removing bad plugins
Remove orphaned plugins when loading configuration
General
Tidied up pylint notices
Translation Updates
Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Downloads
New releases of Xfce4 Panel Profiles will now be found at the Xfce release archive. Previous releases are still available on Launchpad.