Xfce Settings 4.13.8 Released
As we prepare to release Xfce 4.14, each component receives another review and polish round. Xfce Settings 4.13.8 includes many fixes and translations, forming a solid foundation for the Xfce desktop.
What’s New?
General
- display: Disable auto-enabling profiles by default (4.13.7)
- display: Sync display when applying config
- display: Use current display
Bug Fixes
- color: Fix crash when launching GNOME Color Manager in the Settings Manager window (4.13.7) (Xfce #15426)
- color: Set the correct icon in color dialogs (4.13.7)
- display: Add mnemonics to minimal dialog buttons (4.13.7) (Xfce #15449)
- display: Replace deprecated icon (4.13.7) (Xfce #15416)
- settings-manager: Fix missing icons on resize/add/remove (4.13.7) (Xfce #15428, #15613)
- xfsettingsd: Fix numlock state restoration (4.13.7) (Xfce #15642)
- xfsettingsd: Start settings before complete startup (Xfce #15725)
- xsettings: Grab and sync XServer on startup (Xfce #15725)
Translation Updates
Armenian (Armenia), Belarusian, Danish, English (Australia), Finnish, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Brazilian), Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian
Downloads
Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)
Xfce Settings 4.13.8 is included in Xubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine,” installed with the xfce4-settings package.
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.7 Released
We’ve worked hard optimizing Xfce’s screensaver to give users the best possible lock and screensaver experience in Xfce. With Xfce Screensaver 0.1.7, we’ve dropped even more legacy code while implementing a long-requested feature: per-screensaver configuration!
What’s New?
New Features
- Added support for on-screen keyboards. This option adds a button to the login window to show and hide the keyboard at the bottom of the screen.
- Added per-screensaver configuration. The available options are pulled from the xscreensaver theme file and are stored via Xfconf.
- Improved background drawing when using 2x scaling.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed flickering within the password dialog (0.1.6)
- Fixed various display issues with the password dialog; all themes should now render xfce4-screensaver identically to lightdm-gtk-greeter (0.1.6)
- Fixed confusion between screensaver and lock timeouts (Xfce #15726)
- Removed reference to pkg-config (.pc) file (0.1.6) (Xfce #15597)
Code Cleanup
- Cleaned up kdb-indicator logic (0.1.6)
- Consolidated debug function calls (0.1.6)
- Dropped libXxf86 dependency (MATE Screensaver #199)
- Dropped lots of unused or unneeded code, significantly streamlining the codebase
- Migrated xfce4-screensaver-command to GDBus
- Moved job theme processing out of gs-manager (0.1.6)
- Removed full-screen window shaking on failed login
- Simplified handling of user preferences (0.1.6)
- Simplified lock screen and screensaver activation code
Translation Updates
Armenian (Armenia), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Downloads
Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.7 is included in Xubuntu 19.10 “Eoan Ermine,” installed with the xfce4-screensaver package.
Exo 0.12.6 Released
With Xfce 4.14 rapidly approaching, development efforts have shifted to bug fixes. Exo 0.12.6 is no exception, with several old and new bugs finally meeting their end.
What’s New?
Did you miss the release announcement for Exo 0.12.5? Click here to check it out!
Bug Fixes
- Add trailing “;” to mimeapps.list (Xfce #15087)
- Clear bad entries from mimeapps.list (Xfce #15046, #15238)
- Synchronize default applications to gio-mime (Xfce #14633)
- Disable emoji menu in type-ahead search (Xfce #15451)
- Enable dismissal of “Failed to open default” dialogs
- Related Issue: Brave Browser #4142
- If the error can be safely ignored, the user can dismiss it. After changing defaults, the dismissal is forgotten.
Translation Updates
Albanian, Armenian (Armenia), Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Interlingue, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
Downloads
Download Exo 0.12.6 from the link below.
Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.5 Released
A new version of the Xfce Screensaver is now available! Xfce Screensaver 0.1.5 fixes many bugs while making the codebase leaner and more efficient. Check it out!
What’s New?
New Features
- Added support for elogind (Xfce #15243)
- Added support for profile images from AccountsService (Xfce #15235)
General
- Removed a lot of unused code (2,700+ lines)
- Simplified monitor-handling logic
- More consistent spacing in makefiles
Bug Fixes
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Added categories to display in the Settings Manager (Xfce #15507)
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Added a fallback idle timer for when X11 screensaver doesn’t notify
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Fixed warning during configure stage (Xfce #15552)
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Fixed Inhibitor lock (Xfce #15551)
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Hid screensaver themes from “Open with” options (Xfce #15531)
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Made numerous cppcheck, cpplint, and Coverity Scan fixes
- Constant variables guarding dead code
- Dereferencing before/after null
- Unchecked return values
- Unused variables
- Memory leaks
Translation Updates
Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Downloads
Download Xfce Screensaver 0.1.5 at the link below.
Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)
Parole Media Player 1.0.2 Released
A new (more) stable version of the Xfce media player is now available! Parole Media Player 1.0.2 fixes several bugs and improves packaged releases for distributions.
What’s New?
Bug fixes. So… many… fixes!
Build Fixes
- Fixed compiler error -Wcast-function-type with GCC 8
- Fixed Appstream validation by removing tags from translations (Xfce #14260)
- Resolved g_type_class_add_private warnings (Xfce #15014)
Playback
- Fixed play button sensitivity items are added to the playlist (Xfce #13724, LP #1705243)
- Improved support for missing Gstreamer plugin installers (Xfce #14529)
Plugins Manager
- Fixed crash when opening files after disabling plugins (LP #1698540)
- Fixed disabling plugins enabled by distributions (e.g., MPRIS2 in Xubuntu)
- Fixed display of active/inactive plugins when reopening the Plugins Manager
Translation Updates
Albanian, Arabic, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian
Downloads
Parole Media Player 1.0.2 is included in Xubuntu 19.04, with other distributions likely adding it soon. If you can’t wait or want to install it from the source, download it below.
Source tarball ( md5, sha1, sha256)