Xfce 4.2.0 released

bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

Two questions:

I have xfce4-extras installed and which includes xfce4-taskbar. So now I can include a taskbar in the xfce4 panel. I would like to get rid of the annoying (to me) panel on the top of the screen, because I don't use it anymore and it always pops up when I go to kill a window and move my mouse to the top of the screen. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

I am also used to using kde's konsole as an xterm app, mainly because of the tabbed session feature. Are there any other terminal applications that anyone can recommend using from xfce4 that have this feature?

log · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:55 am Post subject:

The way I did it was:

ps -A |grep xftask

(I think thats what I did) and there should be a process you can kill to kill it.

Once you have done that, it wont come back next time you log in

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

Thanks for the quick replies. I just killed the taskbar and installed xfce-extras/terminal. After immediately changing the font to bitstream-vera-sans-mono, it looks pretty good. It lacks the "new session" button that I am used to with konsole, but I can quickly get used to typing Ctrl-Shift-t. I also prefer the look of the small tabs in konsole compared to these big tabs that stretch across the screen, but that is no big deal.

bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

Another question in regard to xfce-extras/terminal. How do I get it to display text encoded with iso-8859-15 (eg. umlauts and the euro)? Xterm displays them ok, but terminal does not.

bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

I don't use the umlauts, etc so I don't even know how to display them. But, I suggest the following:

1. In a terminal, write:

bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

Thanks for the help, but I think it might be a bit misguided. I have already selected the font "bitstream vera sans mono roman" in the menu of "Terminal". This font is capable of displaying iso-8859-1 and iso8859-15 encoding (the "15" refers new euro capable reworking of the western encoding. I already use this font in eg. konsole and it can display all fonts. The problem is that "Terminal" does not seem to be using the locale parameters and so does not know how to interpret these characters. It displays all of these (8 bit) characters as rectangles, not because the font cannot display them, but because it does not know how to interpret the encoding.

Strangely, when I go into the terminal preferences to change the font and then type in a few umlaut characters, I see them, whereas I cannot see them in the terminal itself.

Devard · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

Xfce 4.2.1.1 has been released. The change log is available here. The .1.1 bit is due to having to fix a bad bug as stated on the official site.
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Omega21 · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:42 am Post subject:

I may as well give it a shot....
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wheelspin · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Seacoast NH

I've read through most of this entire thread. I've been running xfce4-4.2 for quite some time. I decided to run emerge -u --deep world and get this

Devard · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:17 am Post subject:

Is xfce4-menuedtior installed? Have you tried unmerging that?
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wheelspin · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Seacoast NH

I don't think menueditor is installed, but I'll double check. Thanks

wrc1944 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject:

Wish I'd seen the post about 4.2.1.1 sooner. I just wasted some time pulling down the 4.2.1 tars from 03-13-05, which are what the Gentoo mirror still has. The bug at the xfce site says:

2005/03/17 - Xfce 4.2.1.1 released
Xfce 4.2.1.1 has been released quickly after 4.2.1. It includes a fix for a bad bug where panel loses its configuration when saving the session in 4.2.1. The Sourceforge server has been updated, and other mirrors will follow soon.

2005/03/16 - Xfce 4.2.1 released
Xfce 4.2.1 is available. This is a maintenance release. Download locations can be found on this page, and a changelog is available here.

Looks like I'll need to redo the whole emerge again. Losing your panel config is a major bug, so don't waste time upgrading quite yet, until the ebuilds/mirrors are updated.
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graphic23 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

Devard · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:

It seems version 4.2.1.1 of both Xfce and Xfce panel has been moved into portage.
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wheelspin · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Seacoast NH

Seems that xfce4-fsguard was causing xfce to try to downgrade itself. I wish I knew how that got installed...

seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

Tane · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

Just unmask xfwm4-4.2.2-r1 if I remember it correctly

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject:

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject:

and these patches doesnt work too for me!