Xfce Settings 4.13.8 Released
As we prepare to release Xfce 4.14, each component is receiving another round of reviews and polish. Xfce Settings 4.13.8 includes a bevy of fixes and translations, and forms 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 prior to 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 Settings 4.13.8 Released
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 prior to 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.
Exo 0.12.6 Released
What’s New?
Missed 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 is able to dismissit. 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
Source tarball (md5, sha1, sha256)
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!
Translation Updates
Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (China), German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai
Downloads
Source tarball (md5, sha1, sha256)
Xubuntu Development Update November 2018
Xubuntu 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish”
We wrapped up development on Xubuntu 18.10 throughout September and October, landing the following changes in the last month and a half of work.
- elementary Xfce 0.13.1
- Exo 0.12.2
- Greybird 3.22.8
- Tumbler 0.2.3
- Xfce Settings 4.13.4
- Xfce Whisker Menu Plugin 2.2.1
- Xfwm 4.12.5
- Xubuntu Artwork 18.10.3
- Xubuntu Default Settings 18.10.2
This release includes 6 new GTK+ 3 Xfce components, giving users a snapshot of the Xfce 4.14 development. More information about the release can be found in the release notes.
Upcoming Fixes
Since the 18.10 release, we’ve identified fixes for two of our documented bugs. We’ll be pushing these fixes to our users via the stable release updates.
- Panel: Window buttons are not clickable at the top pixel of the screen (LP: #1795135)
- Resolution: Export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS = 1 (Xfce Git)
- Settings Manager: Mouse fails to scroll embedded panels (LP: #1653448)
- Resolution: Export GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS = 1 (Xfce Git)
Xfce
September New Releases
- Tumbler 0.2.2 / 0.2.3
- Xfce Battery Plugin 1.1.1
- Xfce Cpufreq Plugin 1.2.1
- Xfce Weather Plugin 0.9.0 (New GTK+ 3 release!)
- Thunar 1.8.2 (Major bugfix release)
October New Releases
- Exo 0.12.3
- Gigolo 0.4.90 (New GTK+ 3 release!)
- Xfce Clipman Plugin 1.4.3
- Xfce Notifications 0.4.3
- Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 / 0.1.1 (New Xfce Application!)
- Xfce Sensors Plugin 1.3.90
- Xfce Settings 4.13.5
- Xfce Whisker Menu Plugin 2.3.0
4.14 Roadmap Updates
The Xfce development team has worked on tidying up the Xfce 4.14 roadmap over the last few days. Statuses have been updated, pending work has been moved to the top of each section, and completion percents have been adjusted to better reflect each project’s progress. With these updates, we can now see that…
Xfce 4.14 is now approximately 83% complete.
Of course, we need all the help we can get to get this milestone out the door. Check out the Xfce Contribute page to find out how you can help.
What’s Next?
With the 18.10 release now behind us, and the 19.04 cycle starting today, it’s time to get back to work! No release goals have been determined yet, so stay tuned to the Xubuntu Development mailing list for updates about Xubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” development.