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Topic: Xfce 4.8 in sid

Seems like 4.8 is now in sid:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/xfce4

Anyone with #! upgraded to sid tried it yet?

I might try a testbed install to check it out later...

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

I just set up Xfce 4.8 on openSUSE 11.4 and it's great.  More feature rich, lighter and easier to configure than gnome 2.x (or 3 for that matter). I think it's what all the disaffected gnome users will be switching to.

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

bobrossw wrote:

I think it's what all the disaffected gnome users will be switching to.

I think your prediction is spot on!

Regarding 4.8 being in Sid, I noticed this today myself, exciting stuff! smile

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

Awesome! big_smile

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

this is a noob question. How do I get xfce4.8 (I already have the liquorix repo in my sources.list) would I have to go to debian testing/unstable to get this?

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Yes you would have to get it from sid/unstable. Read this thread:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … edge-with/

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

thanks! smile

hope that testing and stuff doesn't kill my system! tongue

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

Oh, now that is going to be way to tempting cool

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

I think I am going to wait for it to get to testing, then subsequently to backports before I give it a try, just like I did with 4.6 in Lenny. I shall be strong! big_smile

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bozhkov wrote:

I think I am going to wait for it to get to testing, then subsequently to backports before I give it a try, just like I did with 4.6 in Lenny. I shall be strong! big_smile

I'll let you know how it goes. I'm installing it right now. smile

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

bozhkov wrote:

I shall be strong! big_smile

Good things come to those who wait smile Perhaps just in a VM for now.

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

It's fairly similar to 4.6, just feels like 3 or 4 more layers of polish.  For example, the panel can be transparent now without making your icons transparent...There's more panel plugins (including a cpu governor) also the config menus are more straightforward with more options.

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bobrossw wrote:

It's fairly similar to 4.6, just feels like 3 or 4 more layers of polish.  For example, the panel can be transparent now without making your icons transparent...There's more panel plugins (including a cpu governor) also the config menus are more straightforward with more options.

just installed it. You're 100% right!

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bobrossw wrote:

There's more panel plugins (including a cpu governor)

I could've sworn a CPU governor plugin was in xfce4-goodies the last time I used it...asking apt right now...nope, xfce4-cpufreq-plugin is just a monitor.  I must've been thinking of the Gnome panel plugin...

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

^woops looks like they got me too...the one in 4.8 is just a monitor...I thought the dropdown menus meant you could change the settings like in gnome...ah well.

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

crunchy wrote:

just installed it. You're 100% right!

Are you running testing with xfce4 pulled from sid, or have you dist-upgraded to full sid?  I noticed in your post http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/118350/#p118350 that something broke.  What broke and how did you fix it?

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

oh. adding the testing repos screwed it up somehow. I only upgraded xfce4. I'll be re-installing sometime.

My system still works I just can't install some stuff.

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

I enabled sid  then did a dist-upgrade .  I lost the crunchbang panels and right click menu.

I am now running a vanilla xfce dock and enduring the default xfce right click menu or what I assume to be the plain debian xfce with cruchbang colors and wall paper.

It all seems to work but I lost some of the #!.

The external monitor for my laptop seems integrate better under xfce 4.8 as it now default to big screen.   



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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

@brokenpike:

Xfce Settings -> Desktop Settings -> Icons -> change it to None. If its already set to None, change it to file/launcher icons (or something else), click Apply/OK and change it back.

Also there should be an option asking if you want Applications to be in the right-click menu. Make sure the boxed is checked.

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anonymous wrote:

If its already set to None, change it to file/launcher icons (or something else), click Apply/OK and change it back.

This bug is fixed in 4.8 smile

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Oh that was a bug? big_smile

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

I pinned the repos and upgraded just Xfce and Thunar. It all went okay but I don't have the network browser in Thunar. Does anyone else have this?

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

I meant to say that after I upgrade to 4.8 the application buttons that are in the normal crunchbang desktop menu disappeared.  "Network" is in the desktop menu but chromium, thunar and terminator buttons are missing.

@omns Thunar-vfs was removed when I aptitude dist-upgraded a few minutes ago.

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

@brokenpike - Do you have desktop files for Chromium, Thunar, and Terminator inside /usr/share/applications?

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Re: Xfce 4.8 in sid

@anonymous

They exist.  The upgrade to xfce 4.8 replaced the #! desktop menu with the debian default xfce  desktop. menu 

Now instead of the webrowser being in the top menu it is only in the network sub menu.