XFCE 4.4.0 released

Cerebral · 2007-01-23 15:58:15

linuxinit, are you sure you got the full set of xfce4.4 packages? You might have downloaded off a half-synched mirror - this is why I recommend waiting a day or two after release to update to something this big.

bangkok_manouel · 2007-01-23 16:51:04

or you can makeworld it... xfce is not that long to build...

manmower · 2007-01-23 19:31:48

Excellent release! Thanks to all involved for having it available so quickly.

picpak · 2007-01-23 19:59:11

linuxinit wrote:

There are a lot of annoying things... The settings aren't the same as in the svn version... For example, many items show up under the settings menu, but when i open the settings window, only the plain old default 4.2 ones appear.
Also, I'm missing a freaking ton of icons, and it's very very annoying. I have installed tango, and tango extras, as well as icon-naming-utils, and still, I'm missing icons. :S

This happened to me too, should I just reinstall Xfce 4.4?

tomk · 2007-01-23 20:18:01

Check the package list on whichever mirror you're using against the list on archlinux.org/packages, to make sure everything got synced. Change mirror if necessary. Then do another pacman -Syu.

I can confirm that the heanet mirror is completely up to date, if you want something definite.

picpak · 2007-01-23 20:29:21

My first mirror in /etc/pacman.d/extra is ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686, which I know is up to date. However, I'll try again.

ivaldi · 2007-01-24 00:00:48

If you are missing icons, try installing hicolor-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme. That fixed the problem for me.

picpak · 2007-01-24 00:12:07

I had both of those installed, but reinstalled them just in case. Didn't work.

Mozz · 2007-01-24 06:44:47

Yay, just updated it. Can't wait to get home to test it

Ernest0x · 2007-01-24 10:23:29

Hello,

x86-64 repository still has the 4.2 version for most of the packages. So, I guess we have to wait for one day or two...

Mozz · 2007-01-24 13:40:53

The new version looks very nice, but Metabox theme is now greyish instead of bluish. I wonder how I can switch it back to bluish? And other question, if I add new panel, how I can make so that the panel isn't "always on top"?

kozaki · 2007-01-24 13:45:00

Xfce4.4 running fine, slowly but beautifully on a super computer here (a Celeron 366 w/ 98M RAM shared with intel integrated graphic, nothing less )

I deactivated icons but xfce4 apps still take 40% of available RAM ; so I'd be glad to try to reduce this.

I do use slim to start xfce, but does somebody knows how to start it with dbus launcher ? I still need to make thunar appear automatically if the lady (i'm building the PC for) plug a USB device ?

Last, xfmedia-0.9.1-2 says it can't find libxfcegui4.so.3 and exit right away.

linuxinit · 2007-01-24 15:04:06

I have indeed uninstalled and re-installed multiple times, removed EVERY icon theme I have (even tried manually), installed every icon theme I could get from pacman, and I even symlinked /opt/xfce4/share/icons to /usr/share/icons.

Also, I know for a fact, 100% that the mirror I used was synced, since I used ftp.archlinux.org.

I'm really disappointed with this release though. SVN seemed to have more features in the settings panel. I do have the correct programs, they just don't all show up in the settings panel, such as notification daemon, auto started applications, etc...

However, I will try once more to completely uninstall Xfce4.4, and the few goodies that I installed, and try to install them again. If after this the icons still don't work, I suppose I'll file a bug report. :'(

picpak · 2007-01-24 15:57:14

kozaki wrote:

I do use slim to start xfce, but does somebody knows how to start it with dbus launcher ?

This is my .xinitrc, if it helps any:

#!/bin/sh

if test x"$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" = x""; then
    dbuslaunch=`which dbus-launch`
    if test x"$dbuslaunch" != x"" -a x"$dbuslaunch" != x"no"; then
        eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
    fi
fi

xfcesm=`which xfce4-session`
case "x$xfcesm" in
    x|xno*)
        ;;
    *)
        $xfcesm
esac

kozaki wrote:

I still need to make thunar appear automatically if the lady (i'm building the PC for) plug a USB device ?

Open up Thunar, go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and check Enable Volume Management. Then click on Configure; the options will be in there.

Cerebral · 2007-01-24 17:05:37

linuxinit wrote:

Also, I know for a fact, 100% that the mirror I used was synced, since I used ftp.archlinux.org.

afaik, ftp.archlinux.org still takes time to synch up to the master ftp server - it's not guaranteed to be 100% in sync all the time. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, other devs.

picpak · 2007-01-24 17:12:54

Not entirely sure what I did, but I uninstalled and reinstalled xfce4, and my icons came back.

My settings panel is still small though...

ozar · 2007-01-24 19:04:57

Apparently, upgrading to 4.4.0 doesn't remove the older xffm file manager from the 4.2.x series. Removing it manually with pacman -R xffm and restarting got rid of a number of entries in my start menu that didn't have icons. All looks good now.

robbel · 2007-01-25 03:27:28

ozar wrote:

Apparently, upgrading to 4.4.0 doesn't remove the older xffm file manager from the 4.2.x series. Removing it manually with pacman -R xffm and restarting got rid of a number of entries in my start menu that didn't have icons. All looks good now.

Same with xfce4-trigger-launcher. It's also a leftover from the pre-4.4 days as I understand it...

Best,
P

Master One · 2007-02-07 17:30:15

picpak wrote:

kozaki wrote:

I do use slim to start xfce, but does somebody knows how to start it with dbus launcher ?

This is my .xinitrc, if it helps any:

#!/bin/sh

if test x"$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" = x""; then
    dbuslaunch=`which dbus-launch`
    if test x"$dbuslaunch" != x"" -a x"$dbuslaunch" != x"no"; then
        eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
    fi
fi

xfcesm=`which xfce4-session`
case "x$xfcesm" in
    x|xno*)
        ;;
    *)
        $xfcesm
esac

What is it good for to start XFCE4.4.0 this way?

I don't really understand this dbus thing, I mean I know it's a message bus for inter-app-communication, but why should any or all apps be started with dbus-launch now???

temporaryguy · 2007-02-08 17:40:54

so if we have xfce4-svn, we can remove it and install xfce4 and have the same functionality as with svn? xfce4-svn is slightly broken now, but i'd rather live with no wallpaper and right-click menu than have the ram and other problems.

>>>> okay n/m - removed svn and installed the updated xfce4, everything appears to be working fine. thx.

Last edited by temporaryguy (2007-02-08 18:31:06)

dr_te_z · 2007-02-09 07:32:11

XFCE is under the impression that I want to start nautilus as well when XFCE is started. So I'm stuck with the gnome wallpaper and icons overruling my XFCE desktop settings.
Any idea how I can get rid of nautilst-autostart?

stonecrest · 2007-02-09 17:23:08

killall -9 nautilus and save your session on logout.

aquila_deus · 2007-02-10 01:33:35

dr_te_z wrote:

XFCE is under the impression that I want to start nautilus as well when XFCE is started. So I'm stuck with the gnome wallpaper and icons overruling my XFCE desktop settings.
Any idea how I can get rid of nautilst-autostart?

nautilus --no-desktop ?

TomE · 2007-02-18 17:55:52

run:

gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

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Re: XFCE 4.4.0 released

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