Xfce 4.2.0 released!

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sun Jan 16 21:24:32 CET 2005


Net Llama! wrote:
> On 01/16/2005 08:46 AM, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Official Announcement
>> ---------------------
>>
>> The Xfce Team[1] is pleased to announce the availability of Xfce 4.2.0,
>> the next major version of the Xfce Desktop Environment and Development
>> Framework for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Xfce 4.2.0 can be downloaded
>> here[2].
>>
>> Xfce 4.2.0 includes new applications like a session manager and an
>> application finder, a new and beautiful icon theme, support for
>> bleeding-edge features (like the X.org Composite extension), usability
>> and performance improvements, better support for multihead desktops,
>> new and updated translations, additional themes, and various other
>> improvements over the previous stable releases. See this page[3] for a
>> complete list of changes between Xfce 4.0 and Xfce 4.2.
> 
> 
> This looks great.  Only one question/problem.  I'm running FC2, and I 
> (re)built all the SRPMs, and upgraded from 4.0.6.  The list of window 
> manager styles is rather short in 4.2:
> Default
> Default-4.0
> Opta
> Symphony
> Therapy
> Tyrex
> Waza
> Wildbush
> 
> In 4.0.x there were around 20, and my favorite, Gorilla, is no longer 
> listed.  Is this a known limitation, or is there something i'm missing?

Install the xfwm4-themes package as well.

> Thanks!

HTH,
Benedikt



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