Xfce 4.4BETA2

Schizoid · Apprentice Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

I just upgraded from beta 1 to beta 2. Everything works great.

I still can't get xfterm4 to beep at me when it should. Does anyone know if there is a trick to make it beep? I am talking about audible pc speaker beeps. It never seems to do it when it should.

And Sachankara, I have no idea how do activate composite or where to control it. I was wondering that myself.

baigsabeeh · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:23 am Post subject:

I tested XFCE 4.4 two months back and I didn't like it. I'm very used to KDE.
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younker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 273 Location: China

I have a very serious problem with XFCE 4.4 series, when I start gmplayer in XFCE 4.4, it tooks a very long time to show the GUI part, and occupation of CPU is 100%, also when you right click to open the preference dialog it also took long time to show the dialog. gmplayer works fine on other DEs. so I think maybe this is a problem from XFCE 4.4 desktop.

Does anyone have this problem too?

AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ

Hmmm...that's odd. Does it happen everytime you start gmplayer or just the first time after booting? Does it help if you change gmplayer's skin?

The only lag I experience with gmplayer is with the file selector after I start the program. It takes a few seconds to pop up the first time I use it.
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AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ

I don't suppose it is throwing any syslog messages is it?
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b3cks · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

If you start gmplayer from the xfce terminal you may can see some error messages.
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Gentree · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject:

xfce-base/xfce4-4.3.90.2

have I missed something or is the calendar not available yet?

thx

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Gentree · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

hmm, just tried to install from cvs but it fails to config at thunar saying exo is missing even though libexo installed .

If I give it gentoo exo it's too old.

anyone got an ebuild for cvs xfce4 , it seems either the code is broken or more likely the instructions are not accurate.

:roll:

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Sachankara · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject:

I gave it 0.3.1.8_beta2 and configure said it needs 0.3.1.9
libexo seems to have no bearing on this.

thx

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Gentree · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject:

OK, done most of the svn stuff by hand. Looks pretty nice and does most of what stable one did.

Other lack is bg manager. I installed desktop module but if I try to call it up it says@

Xfce Settings Manager error:
No such plugin "backdrop"

anyone sussed this stuff?

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younker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 273 Location: China

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject:

I have a fully working svn install, but my builds are really shitty - mostly no dependancies (it really does not matter I use a script to build them in the order they are intended to be built), but also mostly no use flags - installs all, I just don't have the time to correct them and no place to upload

There are new things mostly in thunar, thrash can, panel thrash applet, bug fixes, composite in xfwm works out of the box - one could switch on demand (although I do not use it). In fact it works really stable here.
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Gentree · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:

thanks for the reply.

what did you do to get xfburn and thunar to compile of svn?

both fail for me , not finding exo even though I installed libexo or complaining that it needs >=0.3.1.9 if I use emerge exo.

the rest of it looks pretty sweet.

thx.

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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject:

there were some changes in svn in the last week, I don't know if all could be compiled as of today, but normally there are no breakages this is what I have:

Gentree · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:00 am Post subject:

well I'll check it if there is sth new, but for now this is what I build - the script I use:

b3cks · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:14 am Post subject:

1. There is a thread about the newer Xfce 4.4 Beta2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-478786.html
2. There are some SVN build scripts (search the forums): Xfce / Thunar
3. Xfce SVN is in fluidportage. You may want try this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-204881.html

May something of this works better for you.

Regards.
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mark_alec · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:34 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

many thanks for all the replies , that should fix me when I have a bit of time to undo what I did yesterday and use the 9999 ebuilds.

mny-thx

nice ebuilds. just one prob with xfdesktop :

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:39 am Post subject:

For some reason, the GDM session installed doesn't run xfdesktop. What's going on?
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Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: XFce4.4 Beta2 and Battery Applet

Where would I find a battery applet of any sort for XFce4.4 Beta2?
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rodoke · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

I am back on 4.2 after trying out 4.4b2 for awhile. There were some things I loved (e.g. "All my keyboard shortcuts work now!") and though there was still some wet paint hanging around, the whole thing seems to be a nice improvement on xfce 4.2. There were two important problems:

I had two instances of gkrellm2 running in the (former) ~/Desktop/Autostart directory--4.4 never seemed content to just run the scripts once.
Intermittently, 4.4 would just stop accepting keyboard input. I couldn't get what I typed to appear on the screen--nothing except for Ctrl+Alt+F<n> (Switch VT) and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap X) would work. I know the latter because that was the only way to get out of X, as the "Exit" button stopped working.

I like the new features, but I think I'll just wait for it to go stable.
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