Xfce 4.4

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

I'm currently a gnome user but the 4.4 release seems promising, I have tried switching to xfce several times but there have been, in my opinion (I don't mean to flamebait), too many unpolished parts. The filemanager is one of, wich is now fixed with thunar. The panel itself is another, I don't know much about it in 4.4, but I'd love to try it out to see if it's usable as the default DE.

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bladus · Apprentice Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 233

dhave

I just upgraded all the components of xfce4 to 4.4, and I've lost the background of my desktop as well as several icons on my panel.

Other symptoms: Under Settings / Desktop Preferences, when I enable "Allow Xfce to manage the desktop", the checkmark won't stick. As soon as I close and reopen the Desktop Preferences dialog, the checkmark disappears. It also disappears when I log out of an X session or when I reboot.

Also: My "right-click-on-desktop" menu no longer activates with a right click. I can access the menu via the panel, though.

Thanks for any help.

BTW, Xfce3.9999x (the last RC) was working fine.
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b3cks · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject:

Updated and it works great!

Only some plugins are still missing but that's all for now.
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dhave · Last edited by dhave on Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:42 pm; edited 1 time in total

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

I'm having major problems with revdep-rebuild, it's trying to install an older version of hal than I got installed and it crashes while compiling. Updating Xfce anyway now and hope for the best, maybe revdep-rebuild will work properly later on. Looking forward to get this release installed :wink:

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tylerwylie · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:

Got XFCE4.4 installed, but whenever I start a session, instead of xfwm4 it starts up fvwm

. I have no idea why, I tried killing fvwm, starting xfwm4, and exiting saving the session to no avail.

immudium · Guru Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 332 Location: Utah

Yay! I've finally updated both my home and work machines and I'm really enjoying this final version.

I've run into a couple of weird quirks when upgrading. For example, the new xfce-extra/terminal-2.6.0 was dog slow for me and I couldn't figure out why. I wasn't using anything fancy. No transparency or backgrounds or anything. And even turning off anti-aliasing didn't help. Turns out it was because I didn't have compositing enabled via Settings Manager -> Window Manager Tweaks. Seems like there's a bug somewhere in there. It definitely shouldn't be SO slow without compositing, but I do like the new transparency effect so no harm I guess. Anyway, enabling compositing support in xorg and xfce is definitely a must if you want any decent rendering performance from terminal now.

Also, when upgrading from previous xfce versions, I had problems with some panel plugins and icons not showing up. Those problems appear to be a result of doing the upgrade while I was still running from xfce itself. Probably a newbie type of mistake on my part, but shutting down xorg and basically reemerging the important packages in xfce-base, i.e. libxfcegui4, xfce4-panel, etc. fixed several little quirks for me.

Happy updating and thanks to the xfce maintainers for a great job on the ebuilds.

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Xfce-4.4 up and running, and it's amazing

It's smooth and fast and beautiful
Only a couple of small annoyances, I can't set my volume through the mixer and the sensors doesn't work. But that's something I can live with, everything else works great so far. At least the things I've tested

Big thanks to the Xfce maintainers, great job :wink:

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younker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 280 Location: China

Lack of mousepad 0.2.12 ebuild, which I did a modified version of 0.2.10, this version support recent used items.

And I have a problem with thunar, when I right click a folder or file in finder, the popup menu quickly show and dispear again unless I hold on the right mouse button to select the item I want to select,but if I right click the empty area, the popup menu works fine.

I compiled xfwm with compositer support and enable it.

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amar_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 118

I still have 4.2.3 in my mirror and I just rsynced it.. What's wrong?

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amar_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 118

Sorry I installed eix but dont get it much.. I have this

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:19 am Post subject:

You need to unmask all the xfce packages.

First, in /etc/portage/package.keywords, then, in /etc/portage/package.unmask if necessary.

Give it a try: add xfce-base/xfce4 in both files, then try to emerge it. Portage will complain about one if its dependencies, that have to be added into one of those files (or both)... You need to do that for every package

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

ilm · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:54 am Post subject:

Just about to emerge it now... but I wish there was a gnome USE key for xfce4-extras, as I didn't really want xfce4-xfapplet and its gnome dependencies

And since this is from the official portage ebuild, I don't really want to edit it myself or create an overlay'd version.

Sachankara · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:38 am Post subject:

Whoa... The new terminal is a total POS, with or without composite. I had to revert to the old rc2 build to make it usable again.
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tsuru · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:19 am Post subject: Firefox font borkage?

Anyone have problems with Firefox (2.0) fonts regressing to ultra tiny size? The UI fonts are fine everywhere in XFCE except for the firefox rendered pages. And I've checked with the prefs and my min font size is 14pt or higher...Anyhow, other than that and lack of some of the plugins mentioned previously, everything seems nice so far.