xfce April 2011

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Goal: Make XFCE rock in Fedora
by Martin Sourada 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hi all, as some of you might have noticed (on fedora planet) I have switched from gnome to xfce and I like xfce very much. However, IMHO there are issues that need to be addressed to make xfce a first class citizen. I put together an initial list of them in my wiki space: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mso/XFCE Feel free to chime in and edit the page (or its Talk: page) if you feel something is missing/wrong. Since next major release of xfce (4.10) is scheduled for next January we're probably talking here about Fedora 17 time frame. So let's join forces and make XFCE rock in Fedora 17. Cheers, Martin

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claws-mail not respecting ~/.mime-types
by Suvayu Ali 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi everyone, I wanted to set the mime type for certain attachments to text/plain so I have the following line in my ~/.mime-types. text/plain txt asc text pm el c h cc hh cxx hxx cpp f90 C log org tex But this doesn't seem to work, it always uses /etc/mime-types and I have to set it by hand every time. Any thoughts? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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XFCE Testing Necessary Skills?
by Frank Murphy 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

What skillsets should I become very proficient with to eventually become an XFCE proventester? Whether language\commands or other. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora

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Xfce Spin Beta - Thoughts, feedback requested.
by Adam Miller 22 Apr '11

22 Apr '11

Hello XFCE land! I've been unfortunately busy lately and just today got a chance to download the Fedora 15 Xfce Spin Beta image. I have fired it up and its *really* good, the install process went great and the Xfce upstream appears to have nullified the issue with the "ghost mounting" of something that wasn't there which causes a false error popup during install, so yey! Also, major kudos to Christoph for leading the packaging charge for this release of Xfce! Your efforts are much appreciated. Now on to the "errrm.... " mentions. It looks like we're still using Slim which seems to prompt for a password at login of the live user, I don't know that it actually checks for a password or just accepts anything because I just guessed "live" and it let me log on. I'm not against sticking with Slim for the release but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make it autologin? Next is the default GTK theme, its not using Adwaita which makes anything the user were to install that's written in GTK3 look .... "blocky" Can we get some +1's to changing that default config? Also, I notice the gnome sound applet in the system tray but it doesn't appear to do anything and I can't figure out where its coming from because it doesn't seem to be listed in the xfce settings auto start under session. So that's strange and looks bad because there's two sound controllers in the panel this non functional gnome one and the xfce mixer panel plugin. I also see we still have Evince installed and I seem to remember there being talk of replacing it with xpdf or some other viewer that I can't seem to remember the name of. I don't mind either way, was just curious what the status of that was. Other than that I think everything looks amazing and I have yet to find any issues with the default install from the Live media, everything seems to be running like a champ! As always ... questions, comments, and snide remarks are welcome! :) -AdamM

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Testing Fedora15 beta ...
by John Obbele 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hi ! I'm just yet another anonymous Fedora user. If possible, I'd like to help testing this F15 release. But before I expose my problems I would like to know if there is a webpage listing commonly reported bugs for XFCE and their status or a magic bugzilla button for this ? (AFAIK, there is only https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce ) As for my experience in testing both the alpha.TC1 and the beta, I've mostly noticed: [known bugs] * some applications are ugly (I presume they are Gtk+3 programs: nm-applet, evince, …) * lack of a correct DM (LXDM is really awful with dual-screen and I would gladly help you patch or test a replacement). * keyring is not automagicaly unlocked. [not so known bugs ?] * some icons are missing in some menus. e.g. when right-clicking on the desktop, icons for the sub-categories "Preferences", "Development" and "Games" are missing. (and strangely, when using the 'start here' button, default icons are provided for these entries -_-) * same problem with panel->Add new items. 4 icons are missing :( * the systray is sometimes blinking. Does anyone notice the same problem or is it due to an issue with my systray applications ? * streaming music or video over sftp is still not working with parole. Otherwise, everything seems good. My ATI card is working (including Xv and OpenGl!), Thunar-gio does the job, FF4 & webM runs smoothly, xmonad is still stable and GHC 7.x wonderful. regards /john

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DM for Fedora 15 Xfce
by Nathan Thomas 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi all, The Docs Project are about to send the Fedora 15 Beta Release Notes off to the translators, which is essentially their 'feature freeze' for Fedora 15. I've included some of the highlights of Xfce 4.8, but I was wondering if a decision has been made about the display manager for the Xfce Spin? As far as I understand it, GDM seems to have disqualified itself, SLiM is unmaintained, LXDM didn't seem to score many votes, and lightdm was mentioned but is still in the process of being packaged. If we are going to plump for one of these options then it would be great to get it into the release notes. Last minute inclusion is possible but creates a lot of extra work for the Docs Project and the Translation team. Any thoughts? Nathan Docs Project / Xfce SIG

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F15 Beta RC2 now up for desktop testing!
by Adam Williamson 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hey, everyone. Fedora 15 Beta RC2 is now available, including all desktop live images: http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Beta.RC2/ (hasn't finishing mirroring there yet, but should do soon, it's on alt if you need it RIGHT NOW). Desktop validation test page is up at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Beta_RC2_Desktop Your help is appreciated to fill it out! This build stands a reasonable shot at becoming the Beta, so please do give it a once-over. I've tested that each image boots and looks vaguely sane, and the bug from RC1 where anaconda crashed if you ran it from a live image is fixed. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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F15 Beta TC1 desktop live images now available for validation
by Adam Williamson 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi, everyone! We had a bit of a delay composing the Beta TC1 live images, but they're now up at: http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Beta.TC1/Live/ if everyone could help out with testing and filling in the desktop validation table at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Beta_TC1_Desktop , that would be really great. Just ask me if you have any questions or uncertainties about the process. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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