From felipe.contreras at gmail.com Thu Aug 4 01:00:46 2022 From: felipe.contreras at gmail.com (Felipe Contreras) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:00:46 -0500 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfce-panel-hexclock 0.1 released Message-ID: Hi, There's a bunch of binary clocks available in the wild and in xfce4-panel, but they are not truly binary (not even the "true" binary clocks). In a true binary clock $noon would be $day >> 1, which is called "binary time" [1]. I wrote a simulation where you can see how a day goes by in this clock, and as you can see one second before midnight all bits are on: https://felipec.github.io/hexclock/?test=true While I did implement this binary time in xfce4-panel's clock plugin, the patches were rejected with no reason given [2] three years after I sent them. However, binary numbers can be represented in hexadecimal easily, and a binary time represented in hexadecimal is called a hexadecimal time [3] (or hexclock). In hexadecimal time noon is 0x8000, so a day is 0x10000, and one second before the end of the day is 0xFFFF. Pretty straightforward. xfce-panel-hexclock is a very very simple xfce4-panel plugin that shows the current hexadecimal time (BE93 at the time of writing this). It's so simple it's 86 lines of code, and the resulting binary is 15K. This could easily be implemented in xfce4-panel's clock plugin itself, but I'm not waiting another three years for feedback. The code is in github: https://github.com/felipec/xfce-panel-hexclock If you can't wait to check your current time in hexadecimal: https://felipec.github.io/hexclock/ Enjoy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock#Binary_time [2] https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/235 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal_time -- Felipe Contreras From renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org Mon Aug 8 13:07:05 2022 From: renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org (Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 07:07:05 -0400 Subject: Post-upgrade problem Message-ID: <20220808070705.358109ca.renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> I notice that since a recent system upgrade, settings are lost, and I have to re-configure the network data (fixed IP address) as well as the time. Any idea why ? Cheers, Ron. -- It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. -- Lazarus Long -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- From andre at andreldm.com Mon Aug 8 21:20:01 2022 From: andre at andreldm.com (Andre Miranda) Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 21:20:01 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfce4-screenshooter 1.9.11 released Message-ID: <62f161e126ba6_3492b2258de65c090c9@xfce2.mail> xfce4-screenshooter 1.9.11 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/1.9/xfce4-screenshooter-1.9.11.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/1.9/xfce4-screenshooter-1.9.11.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/1.9/xfce4-screenshooter-1.9.11.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-screenshooter? ============================ This application allows you to capture the entire screen, the active window or a selected region. You can set the delay that elapses before the screenshot is taken and the action that will be done with the screenshot: save it to a PNG file, copy it to the clipboard, open it using another application, or host it on imgur.com. A plugin for the Xfce panel is also available. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/start Release notes for 1.9.11 ======================== - Add support to WebP (#76) - Fix window capture in HiDPI mode (#73) - Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck - Add option to Show in File Manager when saving (#47) - Do not quit after dismissing dialog if invoked from plugin (#71) - Update COPYING (#70) - Translation Updates: Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian From gael at xfce.org Thu Aug 11 18:22:46 2022 From: gael at xfce.org (=?UTF-8?B?R2HDq2wgQm9uaXRob24=?=) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:22:46 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: tumbler 4.16.1 released Message-ID: <62f52cd6d25dd_3492b2258de65c0924a@xfce2.mail> tumbler 4.16.1 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/tumbler/4.16/tumbler-4.16.1.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/tumbler/4.16/tumbler-4.16.1.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/tumbler/4.16/tumbler-4.16.1.tar.bz2?sha256 What is tumbler? ================ Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types. It is an implementation of the thumbnail management D-Bus specification described on https://wiki.gnome.org/DraftSpecs/ThumbnailerSpec written in an object-oriented fashion using GLib and GObject. Its modular architecture makes it very flexible and useful in many situations. It provides plugin interfaces for extending the URI schemes and MIME types for which thumbnails can be generated as well as for replacing the storage backend that is used to store the thumbnails on disk. Tumbler's functionality can also be extended via specialized thumbnailer services implemented in accordance to the thumbnail management D-Bus specification. Website: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/tumbler/ Release notes for 4.16.1 ======================== Maintenance release to fix a vulnerability in the GStreamer plugin. Issue #65 will remain confidential for a few more days. - gst-thumbnailer: Add mime type check (Fixes #65) - desktop-thumbnailer: Guard against null path - Fix typo in gthread version (!14) From mrzenwiz at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 19:44:04 2022 From: mrzenwiz at gmail.com (MR ZenWiz) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:44:04 -0700 Subject: Post-upgrade problem In-Reply-To: <20220808070705.358109ca.renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> References: <20220808070705.358109ca.renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:43 PM Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > I notice that since a recent system upgrade, settings are lost, and I have to re-configure the network data (fixed IP address) as well as the time. > > Any idea why ? > It might help if you supplied some specifics - upgrade from what to what, hardware, etc. A question this generic tends not to have, let alone stimulate, answers. Mark From nomad at froevel.de Fri Aug 12 20:23:17 2022 From: nomad at froevel.de (Stephan Haller) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:23:17 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfdashboard 1.0.0 released Message-ID: <62f69a95617d0_3492b2258de65c094a1@xfce2.mail> xfdashboard 1.0.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/1.0/xfdashboard-1.0.0.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/1.0/xfdashboard-1.0.0.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfdashboard/1.0/xfdashboard-1.0.0.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfdashboard? ==================== xfdashboard provides a GNOME shell dashboard like interface for use with Xfce desktop. It can be configured to run to any keyboard shortcut and when executed provides an overview of applications currently open enabling the user to switch between different applications. The search feature works like Xfce's app finder which makes it convenient to search for and start applications. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/start Release notes for 1.0.0 ======================= xfdashboard-1.0.0 "3652 days, 10 years + 2135 commits + 83 releases results in 1.0.0" or short "Now I'm ready! :D" was released on 2022-08-12. This is the first stable major version 1.0.0. * New feature: Introduces XfdashboardSettings as settings object for libxfdashboard. This is the first step to turn libxfdashboard into a real library and removes xfconf as dependency from it but it is still needed for the application and settings application to store settings permanently as XfdashboardSettings is just a in-memory storage. * New feature: Introduces XfdashboardPluginSettings as settings object for plugins like XfdashboardSettings is for the library. * New feature: Move XfdashboardApplication out of library libxfdashboard into application xfdashboard and turn libxfdashboard into a complete library * New feature: Implemented a new color class XfdashboardGradientColor which support solid colors (single colors) and path gradients. Path gradient will follow a path (the outline) and draw a gradient orthogonal with color stops along this path. * New feature: Outlines (through XfdashboardoutlineEffect) do now use the new XfdashboardGradientColor to support the usual solid colors as befeofre as well as a new path gradient. * New feature: Enhanced new color class XfdashboardGradientColor to support also linear gradients besided solid colors (single colors) and path gradients. Added support to specify colors for XfdashboardGradientColor in CSS. * New feature: New search provider plugin "recently used" to search through list of recently used files provided by GTK+ recent-used manager * New feature: New plugin "autopin-windows" which will automatically pin each window moved to any non-primary monitor and unpins them if moved to primary monitor. This plugins runs in daemon mode only * New feature: Added a new property "visibility", which is stylable, to XfdashboardActor, so each actor inherits this new stylable property. This stylable property controls if an actor should be visible if requested to using clutter_actor_show(). Setting "visibility" to false is similar to "display: none;" for CSS of HTML while setting it to true will allow the actor to be shown. * New feature: Added new actions for key bindings to add, remove, toggle or apply CSS classes to a target actor at runtime. Using it by default to switch between list and icon mode at application view with -i for icon mode and -l for list mode when application view has the focus. (#16) * Fixed crashes with animations when user disabled animations in settings (#9) * Fixed missing $(XFDASHBOARD_DEBUG_CFLAGS) in all Makefile.am files except of libxfdashboard and common folder. So debug macros to print debug message where empty and not printed at all, e.g. at plugins * Fixed registering focusable actors from other stage interface as the main one for primary monitor. (GH#194) * Fixed signal definition of "can-suspend" at XfdashboardCore which prevented it to return the correct value if suspend is supported. It always returned FALSE even if xfdashboard is run in daemon mode and stopped to run background and activating some plugin. (GH#197) * Fixed compiler warning about "'__atomic_load' discards 'volatile' qualifier" in g_once_* functions of Glib which was changed in releases since 2.66.3 * Fixed crash on start-up if xfdashboard was started for the very first time without any settings in xfconf (GH#200) * Fixed back button not working in sub-menu "all applications" (#21) * Fixed incorrect allocation for quicklaunch actor when horizontal orientation is used. Thanks to michal4132 for the hint where to look at ;) (#2) * Fixed switching to workspace of window being activated when window was selected at pop-up menu (#15) * Fixed intltool lock file bug in make distcheck. Thanks to Simon :) * Fixed failing to create texture for outlines because either width or height is zero (#8) * Fixed visual bug in default theme drawing wrong fill and outlines corners at workspace selector * Fixed not to draw outlines with rounded corners if background type has not set rounded corners, as the fill background method has already checked for years * Fixed AppInfo to match AppStream specification (#4) * Fixed lots of typos I've done sadly * Fixed enabling full debug builds again with removal of all deprecated functions * Fixed using deprecated function by using g_memdup2() instead of g_memdup() when compiling against GLib 2.67.4 or higher * Changed themes/CSS: Changed default theme to make use of new path gradients at outlines. * Changed themes/CSS: Improved window placements in XfdashboardWindowsView by centering windows in usused space of last row * Enhancement: Do not compile and install the "example-search-provider" plugin anymore but include sources and Makefile example (now called Makefile.am.example) in distribution file. Should make life easier for packagers ;) ... and for users as this plugin is useless ;) * Enhancement: Dropped support of Xfconf legacy (versions below 4.13.0) because of new XfdashboardSettings and XfdashboardPluginSettings object. Therefore also the dependency on dbus-glib was dropped which was needed for Xfconf legacy. * Enhancement: Removed all xfdashboard_*_get_default() function to access singleton instances of the subsystems/component, like plugins manager etc., as these singleton instances should now to access through XfdashboardCore and its xfdashboard_core_get_*(...) functions * Enhancement: Background fill color of XfdashboardBackground as well as outline color of XfdashboardOutlineEffect do support all types of new color class XfdashboardGradientColor, i.e solid colors, linear gradients and path gradients * Enhancement: Improved algorithm to detect application and determine its desktop file (*.desktop) for X11 windows by checking for the X atom called "_GTK_APPLICATION_ID" at X11 window properties and at Linux also lookup executable file from /proc filesystem in application database. For *BSD unixes I need help! * Enhancement: Plugins can now use the debug infrastructure of libxfdashboard * Enhancement: Configuration and data files for application added to XfdashboardSettings and also added to plugins for plugin-specific configuration and data filesystem * Enhancement: Implemented function to set "urgent" state at X11 windows * Simplied animation creation and usage (or not if disabled) by returning an empty animation object which the "done" signal can be connected to * Disabled applications-search-provider statistics as it uses a file instead of settings object or similar and does not work with new XfdashboardSettings object. * Prepared for newer libxfce4util (version 4.17.2 or higher) which changed function xfce_append_quoted to xfce_g_string_append_quoted * And many, many and several and a lot of smaller bug-fixes * Lots of more API documentation * Thanks to all contributors on the way to this major release. It were not many commits but very meaningful ones :) * A hugh thanks you to all translators out there for their great work of creating and updating translations: be, bg, ca, da, de, el, es, et, eu, fr, gl, he, id, it, ja, ko, lt, nb, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sl, sq, sr, sv, tr, zh_CN From renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org Sat Aug 13 01:13:16 2022 From: renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org (Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:13:16 -0400 Subject: Post-upgrade problem In-Reply-To: References: <20220808070705.358109ca.renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> Message-ID: <20220812191316.60e50716.renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:44:04 -0700 MR ZenWiz wrote: > > I notice that since a recent system upgrade, settings are lost, and I have to re-configure the network data (fixed IP address) as well as the time. > > Any idea why ? > It might help if you supplied some specifics - upgrade from what to > what, hardware, etc. > A question this generic tends not to have, let alone stimulate, answers. Weekly dist-upgrade of the rolling distro PCLinuxOS 64bits. Cheers, Ron. -- The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. -- James Agate, British film and drama critic -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- From droidbittin at gmail.com Sat Aug 13 21:04:31 2022 From: droidbittin at gmail.com (Luna Jernberg) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:04:31 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfce-panel-hexclock 0.1 released In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Swedish translation for this done today On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 1:09 AM Felipe Contreras wrote: > Hi, > > There's a bunch of binary clocks available in the wild and in > xfce4-panel, but they are not truly binary (not even the "true" binary > clocks). > > In a true binary clock $noon would be $day >> 1, which is called > "binary time" [1]. > > I wrote a simulation where you can see how a day goes by in this > clock, and as you can see one second before midnight all bits are on: > > https://felipec.github.io/hexclock/?test=true > > While I did implement this binary time in xfce4-panel's clock plugin, > the patches were rejected with no reason given [2] three years after I > sent them. > > However, binary numbers can be represented in hexadecimal easily, and > a binary time represented in hexadecimal is called a hexadecimal time > [3] (or hexclock). > > In hexadecimal time noon is 0x8000, so a day is 0x10000, and one > second before the end of the day is 0xFFFF. > > Pretty straightforward. > > xfce-panel-hexclock is a very very simple xfce4-panel plugin that > shows the current hexadecimal time (BE93 at the time of writing this). > > It's so simple it's 86 lines of code, and the resulting binary is 15K. > > This could easily be implemented in xfce4-panel's clock plugin itself, > but I'm not waiting another three years for feedback. > > The code is in github: > > https://github.com/felipec/xfce-panel-hexclock > > If you can't wait to check your current time in hexadecimal: > > https://felipec.github.io/hexclock/ > > Enjoy. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock#Binary_time > [2] https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/235 > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal_time > > -- > Felipe Contreras > _______________________________________________ > Xfce mailing list > Xfce at xfce.org > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > http://www.xfce.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From damien at dataconduction.com Fri Aug 19 15:59:43 2022 From: damien at dataconduction.com (Damien Moore) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:59:43 -0600 Subject: minimised application icons Message-ID: <20220819075943.3863a31d@dcl15.dataconduction.com> Hello to all Xfce enthusiasts. I have been using Xfce now for ten years or so with few problems or queries. It works well both on my ten year old Toshiba portable and my much newer desktop PC. Thank you for your efforts. One small point which has perhaps eluded my attention concerns the positioning of the minimised application icons on the bottom panel and which activate or deactivate the currently loaded applications. Although it is not very important it would be handy to be able to reposition these icons so that those of us who skip repeatedly from email to spreadsheet to website could place and anchor them always in the same order. I use Debian Gnu/Linux v10 and standard distribution Xfce v.4.12 Kernel : Linux 4.19.0-21-amd64 (x86_64) Version : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.249-2 (2022-06-30) C Library : GNU C Library / (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10+deb10u1) 2.28 Damien Moore From fabian-schaar at gmx.de Fri Aug 19 16:18:40 2022 From: fabian-schaar at gmx.de (Fabian Schaar) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: minimised application icons In-Reply-To: <20220819075943.3863a31d@dcl15.dataconduction.com> References: <20220819075943.3863a31d@dcl15.dataconduction.com> Message-ID: Viewing the subject as a user (not a dev) I'd suggest you to try out the docklike-panel-plugin -- I think this supports this functionality when you pin applications to the dock. https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin/start 19.08.2022 16:10:16 Damien Moore : > > > Hello to all Xfce enthusiasts. > > I have been using Xfce now for ten years or so with few problems or queries. It works well both on my ten year old Toshiba portable and my much newer desktop PC. Thank you for your efforts. > > One small point which has perhaps eluded my attention concerns the positioning of the minimised application icons on the bottom panel and which activate or deactivate the currently loaded applications. Although it is not very important it would be handy to be able to reposition these icons so that those of us who skip repeatedly from email to spreadsheet to website could place and anchor them always in the same order. > > I use Debian Gnu/Linux v10 and standard distribution Xfce v.4.12 > Kernel      : Linux 4.19.0-21-amd64 (x86_64) > Version     : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.249-2 (2022-06-30) > C Library   : GNU C Library / (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10+deb10u1) 2.28 > > > Damien Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Xfce mailing list > Xfce at xfce.org > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > http://www.xfce.org From matt at connell.tech Fri Aug 19 16:57:48 2022 From: matt at connell.tech (Matt Connell) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:57:48 -0400 Subject: minimised application icons In-Reply-To: <20220819075943.3863a31d@dcl15.dataconduction.com> References: <20220819075943.3863a31d@dcl15.dataconduction.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 07:59 -0600, Damien Moore wrote: > One small point which has perhaps eluded my attention concerns the positioning of the minimised application icons on the bottom panel and which activate or deactivate the currently loaded applications. Although it is not very important it would be handy to be able to reposition these icons so that those of us who skip repeatedly from email to spreadsheet to website could place and anchor them always in the same order. If I understand what you're describing correctly... Go to Panel Preferences, and choose the relevant panel, and under Items, select the Window Buttons item, and then edit it. If you set the sorting order to "None, allow drag and drop" you should be able to get them in the order desired. Whether they will stay that way or not is something I can't say, I don't use that order. From framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de Thu Aug 18 12:19:04 2022 From: framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Ulli Horlacher) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:19:04 +0200 Subject: cloning xfce config? Message-ID: <20220818101904.GA2857@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> I have a new install of Mint 21 with Xfce (4.16). Everything looks good. Then I copied this installation to a USB disk with linuxclone(*). On a second PC I can boot with this USB disk. BUT my default user "tux" has now a very different desktop look: It has "dark mode", two panels (top and bottom), different background image, etc. On the original Mint system the user tux has no dark mode and only one panel: https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jvm7xUFJ/Mint21.jpg But /home/tux/ is exactly the same on both systems! Therefore some other (system?) config files must be missing, perhaps a problem with linuxclone. A workaround would be to save the complete Xfce configuration for the user tux in his $HOME and copy it to the USB disk. How can this be done? Yes, I can configure the desktop of the user tux on the USB disk, e.g. switch from dark to bright mode, adjust the panels, etc. But this is a lot of work. I want to clone the desktop configuration. I have done this before with Xubuntu 18 and linuxclone, there was no such problem. The desktop looked exactly the same. There must be a problem in combination of Mint, Xfce and linuxclone... very difficult to debug! (*) https://fex.belwue.de/linuxtools/linuxclone.html -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher at tik.uni-stuttgart.de Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<20220818101904.GA2857 at tik.uni-stuttgart.de> From felipe.contreras at gmail.com Fri Aug 19 19:51:03 2022 From: felipe.contreras at gmail.com (Felipe Contreras) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:51:03 -0500 Subject: cloning xfce config? In-Reply-To: <20220818101904.GA2857@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <20220818101904.GA2857@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 12:28 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > I have a new install of Mint 21 with Xfce (4.16). > Everything looks good. > Then I copied this installation to a USB disk with linuxclone(*). > On a second PC I can boot with this USB disk. > > BUT my default user "tux" has now a very different desktop look: > It has "dark mode", two panels (top and bottom), different background > image, etc. My guess is that the defaults on your USB disk are somehow being loaded, and then your configuration is loaded on top of that. I don't know how that could happen. I wrote xfce-config-helper [1] precisely to have control over these situations, you can dump both configurations and use diff to find the differences. Then you can merge the two configurations and the result should work on both. Or just dump your configuration and load it into the USB disk. [1] https://github.com/felipec/xfce-config-helper -- Felipe Contreras From cottrell at wfu.edu Fri Aug 19 23:42:01 2022 From: cottrell at wfu.edu (Cottrell, Allin) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:42:01 -0400 Subject: cloning xfce config? In-Reply-To: References: <20220818101904.GA2857@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 1:51 PM Felipe Contreras wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 12:28 PM Ulli Horlacher > wrote: > > > > I have a new install of Mint 21 with Xfce (4.16). > > Everything looks good. > > Then I copied this installation to a USB disk with linuxclone(*). > > On a second PC I can boot with this USB disk. > > > > BUT my default user "tux" has now a very different desktop look: > > It has "dark mode", two panels (top and bottom), different background > > image, etc. > > My guess is that the defaults on your USB disk are somehow being > loaded, and then your configuration is loaded on top of that. I don't > know how that could happen. I experienced something similar recently, transitioning from an old laptop to a new one, in my case running Xfce on Arch Linux. I first installed Linux from an Arch USB image, then untarred an archive of my old home directory over the newly created one. I was then kinda surprised, on rebooting from the hard drive, that my Xfce desktop bore no resemblance to the old one. My fix was to blow away the new home directory entirely (rm -rf /home/ as root) then explode the old archive a second time. A few things still had to be fixed but basically that did the job. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University From gael at xfce.org Sat Aug 20 17:35:11 2022 From: gael at xfce.org (=?UTF-8?B?R2HDq2wgQm9uaXRob24=?=) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 17:35:11 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfce4-panel 4.17.3 released Message-ID: <6300ff2f2e09_3492b2258de65c0960@xfce2.mail> xfce4-panel 4.17.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.17/xfce4-panel-4.17.3.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.17/xfce4-panel-4.17.3.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.17/xfce4-panel-4.17.3.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-panel? ==================== Xfce's panel. Website: https://www.xfce.org/ Release notes for 4.17.3 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - New Features: - clock: binary: Add new binary time mode (#235, !94) - Code Refactoring: - cleanup: Use the same debug function everywhere - clock: binary: Various refactoring and cleanups (!91, !92, !93) - launcher: Replace deprecated GtkWidget::state-changed signal - tasklist: Use a checkbox for button grouping - cleanup: Remove dead code - cleanup: Wrap some GdkScreen deprecations in one place - cleanup: Wrap GtkImageMenuItem deprecations in one place - cleanup: Remove deprecated GdkColor - prefs-dialog: Rephrase "Don't reserve space on borders" (Fixes #217) - tasklist: Simplify label text - Bug Fixes: - clock: Implement sleep monitor (#58, !88) - systray: Help to keep status notifiers from vanishing (#102, #243, #599) - panel: Exit gracefully when display cannot be opened (Fixes #625) - Urgency blinking fixes (!90) - prefs-dialog: Always select another panel after removing one - tasklist: Do not release button if left-click minimization is disabled - tasklist: Properly exclude grouped windows from overflow menu - tasklist: Keep dnd position when grouping/ungrouping windows (#323) - Reposition menu for popup commands if necessary - tasklist: Fix memory leak - panel: Populate item dialog after setting dialog screen (Fixes #62) - panel: Switch to pixels for the panel length in the prefs dialog (#99) - panel: Rework enter/leave opacity management (#180) - systray: Set button border width to 0 (Fixes #604) - systray: Perform sanity checks also for "NewStatus" signal (Fixes #602) - pager: Fix aspect ratio for viewport (Fixes #119) - clock: Distinguish AM/PM hours in fuzzy clock for L10N (#77) - libxfce4panel: Report a highlighted arrow button as blinking - windowmenu: Update plugin icon on active window icon change (Fixes #37) - pager: Synchronize workspace layout between plugin instances (#7) - pager: Move some function calls to their right place - pager: Properly disconnect signal handler - tasklist: Guard against null workspace - tasklist: Properly update active window when it changes workspace (#207) - libxfce4panel: Warn about deprecated xfce_panel_plugin_position_menu() - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Panjabi (Punjabi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese From andre at andreldm.com Sat Aug 20 17:58:39 2022 From: andre at andreldm.com (Andre Miranda) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 17:58:39 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfdesktop 4.17.0 released Message-ID: <630104af8e92e_3492b2258de65c098f1@xfce2.mail> xfdesktop 4.17.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.17/xfdesktop-4.17.0.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.17/xfdesktop-4.17.0.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.17/xfdesktop-4.17.0.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfdesktop? ================== Xfce's desktop manager. Website: https://www.xfce.org/ Release notes for 4.17.0 ======================== Please note that this is a development release. - Copy file instead of overwrite for DND - Resolve deadlock on background change (Issue #188) - Set default working directory for .desktop files - build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck - Improve warning about registering background with AccountsService. - Fix wording - Fix indentation - Strip only known icon suffix - Use `icon_name` variable instead of hard-coded value - Remove unnecessary `else` - Allocate memory after error processing - Fix indentation - Remove redundant code - Remove unused function call (Issue #157) - Add option to disable "Delete" menu entry in context menu (!22) - Use a more specific device eject label (!24) - Ask for confirmation before desktop icons are rearanged (Issue #128) - Increase opacity of xfce-verticals bg (Fixes #125) - Set default tooltip icon size to 64 (!17) - Fix compilation warnings - autoconf: Remove AC_HEADER_STDC - Do not delete property not set - Set a pixmap XID, not the XID of the root window (#62) - Fix Applications Menu memory leak (Bug #102) - Fix next background (!16) - Fix gettext extraction from settings/xfce-backdrop-settings.desktop.in.in - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek From gael at xfce.org Sat Aug 20 18:15:14 2022 From: gael at xfce.org (=?UTF-8?B?R2HDq2wgQm9uaXRob24=?=) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:15:14 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfce4-panel 4.16.5 released Message-ID: <630108924222d_3492b2258de65c0102d9@xfce2.mail> xfce4-panel 4.16.5 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.16/xfce4-panel-4.16.5.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.16/xfce4-panel-4.16.5.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.16/xfce4-panel-4.16.5.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-panel? ==================== Xfce's panel. Website: https://www.xfce.org/ Release notes for 4.16.5 ======================== - systray: Help to keep status notifiers from vanishing (#102, #243, #599) - panel: Populate item dialog after setting dialog screen (Fixes #62) - systray: Perform sanity checks also for "NewStatus" signal (Fixes #602) - pager: Properly disconnect signal handler - tasklist: Guard against null workspace - panel: Be sure to save plugins before xfconf_shutdown() - tasklist: Fix critical warning when starting on a disconnected device - Update `.gitignore` - libxfce4panel: Destroy plugin prefs dialog on plugin "destroy" signal - build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck - prefs-dialog: Filter out irrelevant selection changes in "Items" tab - wrapper: Ensure that provider stays alive when processing "g-signal" - Revert "panel: Keep a reference on item during drag and drop" - tasklist: Fix wireframe for CSD windows (v2) (#562) - Translation Updates: English (United Kingdom), Georgian, Greek, Panjabi (Punjabi), Russian From andre at andreldm.com Sat Aug 20 18:15:12 2022 From: andre at andreldm.com (Andre Miranda) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:15:12 +0200 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xfdesktop 4.16.1 released Message-ID: <630108903b61d_3492b2258de65c010062@xfce2.mail> xfdesktop 4.16.1 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.16/xfdesktop-4.16.1.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.16/xfdesktop-4.16.1.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.16/xfdesktop-4.16.1.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfdesktop? ================== Xfce's desktop manager. Website: https://www.xfce.org/ Release notes for 4.16.1 ======================== - Resolve deadlock on background change (Issue #188) - Allocate memory after error processing - Remove unused function call (Issue #157) - autoconf: Remove AC_HEADER_STDC - Do not delete property not set - Set a pixmap XID, not the XID of the root window (#62) - Fix next background (!16) - build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck - Increase opacity of xfce-verticals bg (Fixes #125) - Fix Applications Menu memory leak (Bug #102) - Fix gettext extraction from settings/xfce-backdrop-settings.desktop.in.in - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek From damien at dataconduction.com Thu Aug 25 15:12:01 2022 From: damien at dataconduction.com (Damien Moore) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:12:01 -0600 Subject: minimised application icons In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20220825071201.0dd566c5@dcl15.dataconduction.com> Hello again Thanks to all who responded to this query - Xfce Digest Vol 225 Issue 6. The Panel Preferences suggestion worked for me. I have yet to try the docklike-plugin, of the existance of which I was unaware, but worth a look when I have a minute ... Damien Moore From matt at connell.tech Thu Aug 25 20:35:17 2022 From: matt at connell.tech (Matt Connell) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:35:17 -0400 Subject: minimised application icons In-Reply-To: <20220825071201.0dd566c5@dcl15.dataconduction.com> References: <20220825071201.0dd566c5@dcl15.dataconduction.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 2022-08-25 at 07:12 -0600, Damien Moore wrote: > The Panel Preferences suggestion worked for me. For my own edification, was this my suggestion to enable manual sorting on the Window Buttons panel item? From damien at dataconduction.com Fri Aug 26 14:13:56 2022 From: damien at dataconduction.com (Damien Moore) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:13:56 -0600 Subject: minimised application icons In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20220826061356.23fc6292@dcl15.dataconduction.com> On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:35:17 -0400 Matt Connell wrote: > > For my own edification, was this my suggestion to enable manual sorting > on the Window Buttons panel item? > Yes, good enough for me. Thank you for your help. Damien Moore