xfce November 2014

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change the Alt-Tab selection colour
by Rajesh Khan 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

I am using xfce on Fedora 20. Currently when I press Alt-Tab a list of applications that are currently running appear however the select application is inside a square whose color and thickness I would like to change. My question is how can I change the color and possibly the thickness of the box that highlights the application under selection (i.e) when I press Alt+Tab again that box moves to the next application upon selecting it that application is brought in view.

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Live CD Request for Enhancement: Smarter Mail Client
by Raphael Groner 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

My suggestion is to replace claws-mail with a smarter mail client: either Balsa or Geary First benefit is to save same space in the image. Second, Geary and Balsa are both based at gtk3 which should be the better hope instead of enforcing gtk2. % LC_ALL=C yum info geary |grep Size Size : 4.8 M % LC_ALL=C yum info balsa |grep Size Size : 7.3 M % LC_ALL=C yum info claws-mail |grep Size Size : 17 M I assume it's not needed to ship all those great plugins for claws-mail, and both geary as well balsa have great configuration wizards open at the first start. Settings can be considered to be vanishable in the sense of a live image, don't they? Balsa is themable via gtk3 while Geary has a more modern design. Both packages seem to be actively maintained. No idea about upstreams. All in all, a live user should not be expected to see as many feature as possible with an image that has a feature to limit in size. What do you think? R. Am Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:00:04 +0000 schrieb xfce-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org: > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:34:48 -0700 > From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> > To: xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: Live CD Request for Enhancement: screen savers > Message-ID: <20141119093448.454883ad(a)voldemort.scrye.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I suppose we can... there are still people (a diminishing number) that > have 700MB cd's, but I suppose perhaps this is a good time to move > on. > > So, lets retarget for now for a 1GB usb/dvd? > > In which case we should look at removing some of the space saving I > did recently. I'll try and do that later today. > > kevin

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Change font color of drop down panel menu.
by Rajesh Khan 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

I would like to change the font color in the drop down menu from the panel (i.e) when I click on "Application Menu" is there a way for me to change the font color. I have xfce installed on a fedora 20.

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Changing the font color on the panel
by Rajesh Khan 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

I have been working on this for a while now but all my efforts have failed. I would like to change the forecolor of the font in my panel. For instance the "Application Menu" is currently in white and I would like to make it blue. While searching on this topic I came under a post which stated that this could be accomplished by adding a stylesheet parameter to the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 . However that did not work. I also wanted to change the width of scrollbars adding that to my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 worked. Now my question is how can i change the font color of text in my panel . Any help would be appreciated. Below is a copy of my .gtkrc-2.0 and I installed Xfce on top of fedora 20. I tried putting in any randowm colour but nothing seems to work for the foreground color of the font #change width of scrollbars style "myscrollbar" { GtkScrollbar::slider-width=20 } class "GtkScrollbar" style "myscrollbar" # this is the new part added by bgryderclock style "xfdesktop-icon-view" { XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0 #Text colors you can delete these if you want you use gtk theme colors fg[NORMAL] = "#ffff0f" fg[SELECTED] = "#00fff0" fg[ACTIVE] = "#00f0ff" } widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

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Live CD Request for Enhancement: screen savers
by ToddAndMargo 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Dear Fedora Xfce, http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/21-Beta/Li… Request for Enhancement: I do so love the Live CD's: use them for troubleshooting and installation of new systems. Problem: the screen saver comes without any screen savers. Makes you think the stinker is broken. Causes a lot of consternation. And, makes you look a little stupid in front of the customer after bragging how well done Xfce Linux is. Would you please include the screen savers with the screen saver? Here is a article on the problem: http://laboinaroja.org/2014/01/28/how-to-install-screensavers-in-fedora-20/ The money part is: yum install xscreensaver-base xscreensaver-extras xscreensaver-extras-base xscreensaver-gl-base xscreensaver-gl-extras Many thanks, -T

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Fwd: Listing our current forces
by Mukundan Ragavan 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi folks, This email (below) was sent to xfce4-dev today. Should we list Xfce-SIG of Fedora for QA? I think this would increase communication between upstream and us, potentially. Cheers, Mukundan. - -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Listing our current forces Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:20:18 +0000 From: Steve Dodier-Lazaro <sidnioulz(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Xfce development list <xfce4-dev(a)xfce.org> To: Xfce development list <xfce4-dev(a)xfce.org> Hi everyone, Following discussion today on IRC, we've started a Wiki page (https://wiki.xfce.org/people) on which all Xfce contributors can list the areas in which they're willing to work in the future. This list will be very useful in: - - identifying weak spots, where we urgently need new contributors - - ensuring that each SIG has one person monitoring progress and setting milestones I'd like to ask everyone to add themselves onto the list to help us reach that goal. If you're a Xfce distributor, you can also indicate on that list how your team can help us e.g., by providing testing or developer effort on apps, by giving us a contact point for bug triaging, etc. Thanks, - -- Steve Dodier-Lazaro PhD Student in Information Security University College London Free Software Developer OpenPGP : 1B6B1670 _______________________________________________ Xfce4-dev mailing list Xfce4-dev(a)xfce.org https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUbVDlAAoJEIfjPv0A6GWNrW8P/jDuq8a1BRauwQtQ3juWHw/e bm6QxUV9c/ZCYlg2XlJjTNrfTC3g/I9XvbQaZTY0TJcOEymramMyn8Q37G2Tb+M9 sqcjJ69oQPCZK+hLEu1kkDDgFwrW44Jusnn5PxiyCKwAMJWJ8GbDll/U0CzEZm0O Z775iaKGruQGM5Ll4OuTtyvEdWfZWpZHQHO/2iw6UGEFrc0zTicSMFsH/HJho3ST vPM0uRtO3zFKmZsH8G2U0VgvSSvB3qpBvAHl43x3fdUxyhALBqs950m9jt6xYJCw hxUCIEIaWzIg8b15uHsFOrDhynIK/Z4OjYRO1Bw4NHeW/VL1C9pgK/lNZNyQqowh 68R7IG2Z5MuKmNNdSW0YFpFaykkcXO4f19rVWLHth/3q72qv8y8ru70IWYQx0C7P Ea0C5ECYI1H2bZHRVS2RV8lcn1GEq/rmWbegSpQMBHRgR7rrcNv0XtI7ilbCDGpN 9PhXt0YnW/Gnub6RO4UlGtuKOyiqr+tBzh3+8sCVHwuofhiryY7rfEG+fRRlSLM/ ldC9FbG1APLegMoKeKOML6kmUBZlMDyKApo0XwSVBmDKlPm65jbQN3IGr+yR8w3Y f3NFuwjOyQcqJNocF6/iohGY5jeeMuKm/CAWK8oSk0PXcOfufNi4+C5AW0mXfaLe HQ1QmoqVyv9+hXq7asj0 =N+b7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Keypad does not work in X
by Raphael Groner 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Is that an USB keyboard? If yes, I would suspect a driver issue and this list would be the wrong place to ask cause Xfce has nothing to do with drivers and/or Xorg configuration. Am Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:00:04 +0000 schrieb xfce-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org: > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:07:41 +1100 > From: Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au> > To: xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Keypad does not work in X > Message-ID: <4171e8bc882c0da2facb1b7ef96ee250@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > People, > > I don't make much use of the keypad so when it hasn't worked in > recent version of Fedora (currently v20 x86_64), I have usually been > in a hurry and have just used the numbers on the main keyboard - but > now this problem is annoying me! > > The console keypad works fine - but in X, whether I use NumLock on or > off - I get nothing - nada, zip - not numbers, not cursor movement, > nothing. The NumLock light comes on but there's nothing at home . . > Is this an XFCE problem or something else? - I spent a lot of time > Googling but came up with nothing . . > > Thanks, > > Phil.

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Keypad does not work in X
by Philip Rhoades 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

People, I don't make much use of the keypad so when it hasn't worked in recent version of Fedora (currently v20 x86_64), I have usually been in a hurry and have just used the numbers on the main keyboard - but now this problem is annoying me! The console keypad works fine - but in X, whether I use NumLock on or off - I get nothing - nada, zip - not numbers, not cursor movement, nothing. The NumLock light comes on but there's nothing at home . . Is this an XFCE problem or something else? - I spent a lot of time Googling but came up with nothing . . Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Please circulate invitation to participate in Xfce user research
by Steve Dodier-Lazaro 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Hi, I'm writing as a member of the Xfce Design SIG to inform you we're opening two user surveys to gather user experiences on Xfce's session saving feature and UI, and the XDG Autostart UI. Below are the links to both surveys. Online survey on session saving: http://goo.gl/forms/3oYrPQNDEt Online task on autostart app UI: http://goo.gl/forms/c7qYcIE0EQ We'd like each of the main Xfce distributors to advertise the survey to their userbase, so that we design a solution that works for everyone and not just <insert competitor name here>! ;-) The links above already provide information on the content of the surveys and how the data is handled, so you can keep the advertising short. This is what we'll be using for our own advertising effort: Hi, I'm writing as a member of the Xfce Design SIG to invite the Xfce users and enthusiasts among you to participate to user research we're doing on sessions, login and autostart applications. Each survey takes under 10 minutes to complete. By completing these surveys, you help us understand what's useful for you and make Xfce more usable and enjoyable! Questionnaire on logins and session saving: http://goo.gl/forms/3oYrPQNDEt Online task on the app autostart settings: http://goo.gl/forms/c7qYcIE0EQ Cheers, If you have any questions, you can find me on the #xfce-dev IRC, nickname sidi. Thanks! Cheers,

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Xfce volume bar issue - Does not get out of mute
by Rajesh Khan 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

After installing Xfce on my fedora 20 machine. I could not find a volume bar in my panel so I did the following sudo yum install xfce4-mixer I then added the following Pannel >> Add New Items >> Audio Mixer The Audio Mixer appeared and seems to be working fine. However there is one problem. If I drag the volume bar all the way down the sound goes on mute. Dragging it all the way up then does not unmute the sound. Any suggestions on how I can fix this problem ?

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