xfce March 2015

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XFCE 4.12 on EPEL7
by Martin Sourada 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

Hi all, are there any plans on getting Xfce 4.12 on epel7 (e.g. copr repo)? I've been able to mockchain build pretty much everything sans: pragha-1.2.2-5.fc20.src.rpm (missing deps, more than one, haven't tried yet rebuilding them all) ristretto-0.8.0-1.fc23.src.rpm (missing deps for libappstream-glib which is unbuildable on epel7: too old glib, but fails late in build process) libxfcegui4-4.10.0-7.el7.src.rpm xfce4-timer-plugin-0.6.1-17.el7.centos.src.rpm xfce4-radio-plugin-0.5.1-10.el7.centos.src.rpm xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin-1.9.4-19.el7.centos.src.rpm xfce4-cpufreq-plugin-1.0.0-11.el7.centos.src.rpm Haven't tried the functionality though yet. Regards, Martin

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Xfce 4.12 fedora 22 alpha rc3 status
by Kevin Fenzi 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Greetings. Ran into a few snags today, but managed to overcome them. ;) We were missing 3 packages from our f22 mega update. One I already had built (xfce4-notifyd), and two we hadn't (xfce4-screenshooter and xfce4-dict). I managed to get those all built/added to the update/sorted out. So, the f22 update should hopefully be happy now. Also, looks like we managed to get enough votes for a Freeze Exception for F22 Alpha, and also as luck would have it there was a blocker bug that required another compose, so we are in. :) If folks could please test the F22 alpha rc3 images, that would be great: Fedora-Live-Xfce-i686 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9145949 Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9145951 There will be a formal rc3 announcement when the full compose is done, but the above Xfce images are completed, so we can start testing whenever. ;) Thanks much. kevin

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Re: xfce 4.10 for EPEL-7
by Raphael Groner 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Do not forget about xfce4-notifyd. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206895 > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:32:02 -0500 > From: Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)fedoraproject.org> > To: Fedora Xfce <xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: xfce 4.10 for EPEL-7 > Message-ID: <55178042.7080908(a)fedoraproject.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > We should now have a more complete set of Xfce 4.10 packages for EL-7. > Most of the core packages and plugins should be available at least > from testing repos. > > > This bug report has the "gory" details - > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201124 > > > The following plugins built fine but cannot even be enabled on the > panel - :( > > clipman > wavelan > netload > timer > places > weather (0.8.5) > > > The following packages have also been built. While the main packages > work fine, the panel-plugins don't. :( > > dict > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624462 > > screenshooter > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624465 > > Testing and patches welcome. > > Thanks! > Mukundan.

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xflock4 screensaver support
by Martin Sourada 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hi all, I believe many people may call this nitpicking, but it has been a long-standing issue that xfce isn't able to work with any other screensaver than the most simple ones or xscreensaver without changing xflock4 shell script. I don't mind that xscreensaver is simple and ugly -- it's just an ui for locking the screen for me, but it has severe usability problems. I noticed two: * I cannot tell which keyboard layout I'm using. Is it US, is it CZ? Is it qwerty, qwertz, dvorak, whatever? * I cannot switch users that way (imagine a second person coming to a locked computer). I solved these issues easily by switching to mate-screensaver, but as it's not officially supported by xflock4, I have to edit the script every time I update xfce4-session package which is suboptimal, especially given, the patch is fairly simple. Can we consider adding support for all fedora/epel included screensavers into xflock4 with such simple patch, until xflock4 is rewritten upstream? Reference bugs: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10217 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166227 Regards, Martin

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Xfce f22 beta status
by Kevin Fenzi 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hey folks. Beta freeze is coming up on tuesday. The biggest items I see currently are: * Make sure all our pending in testing Xfce packages get karma and pushed stable before tuesday (ie, today or tomorrow). * It would be great if we could finish off libxfcegui4 and those last 3 plugins, but I am not sure we will be able to. On notes: There's a upstream notes-plugin rc now, which they say they will release next week, but that will likely be after freeze. Is there any news on timer-plugin and cellmodem-plugin? I guess I can look at those later today perhaps. * Size: we just crossed over the 1GB size, so I bumped our target to 2GB. Is there anything we should cut or add? I guess many people were in favor of switching in firefox over midori? Please indicate if so, and we can make that change. * Anything else we need to do that folks can think of? kevin

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Re: Xfce f22 beta status
by John C. Deal 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Kevin Any idea why your attachments do not open on my Android? John John C. Deal 2575 Wexford RD Columbus, Ohio 43221-3215 (614) 325-1177 (cell) johndeal(a)columbus.rr.com <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> </div><div>Date:2015/03/29 10:32 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org </div><div>Subject: Re: Xfce f22 beta status </div><div> </div>_______________________________________________ xfce mailing list xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce

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xfce 4.10 for EPEL-7
by Mukundan Ragavan 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 We should now have a more complete set of Xfce 4.10 packages for EL-7. Most of the core packages and plugins should be available at least from testing repos. This bug report has the "gory" details - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201124 The following plugins built fine but cannot even be enabled on the panel - :( clipman wavelan netload timer places weather (0.8.5) The following packages have also been built. While the main packages work fine, the panel-plugins don't. :( dict https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624462 screenshooter https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=624465 Testing and patches welcome. Thanks! Mukundan. - -- GPG key: 00E8658D "The heights by great men reached and kept were not attainted by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVF4A6AAoJEIfjPv0A6GWNclEQAL6JrxYqwp50K42FU2Fm+kcp c3TDYZ3gbicozj0iDj9GxPWyZj3vr6ArA1KSNoxzoQ+89hWYrP5ldxCKitlMNoEv S/bafWCZLHnV9eaMxQVRJaQ+s/XJRPtKHedKlDRqoD3AkCGxqCSUmwkPFeZ7bTJt zhoOEnvjeb3EXIvixMhOni11SN1Z5LoIcUxZaO7a+GrwrOTsaJtSkIOOz9Qdxy+p 3IUEiq5i/lrDmEZ4xGkxwL5V6r3o+g9+0odNgoTtT8gLzYVyuvdJXOFJPGOu/gkC 1dun25cEaTTZuE/n+AqWK1xG+4LA4H+j4W4kz/EQSsNluOatqGa/d0fpeJqcb9gJ w0A2h5ivNe5HZJdcuZ/4tCGuZxbntehvQcWx5AL2xbctOnJdBZWFdlQNtgjpAfYh E1DXzJqOIRRt9Zox24rjtIS0E8cYNjC4g8tVa+0gm3mcoJyd/uVu1S1CS+imvPM0 WMjqzLeSri6tAj4unveePq2PpWLMZnTZh/MzVHcmtfULE2ETOgdgNPYsXBtlObHQ jblIaC18vOGnpc2hXjW7uVObhk9wWObemVYlju5OPcFGHdKzK5mX/okYslaX22WU bmRK9/FKMVZcz33SZHJUOoaQFxT1hQy3C0UiUw6emkEh5W052pFWpHAOvUH3L+J6 PaCJUMjslaPhGgNqgiYM =n1iU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RFE xfce-sig-packagers group
by Adam Miller 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

Hello all, I was curious what everyone's thoughts would be on creating a xfce-sig-packagers group (or some similar name) where everyone that's a member is able to commit to all xfce packages DistGit (at least in rawhide, but possibly in stable releases also if others think that's a good idea). My main motivation for this is to try and increase collaboration and share workload between members of the XFCE SIG who handle packaging and maintenance of different components. Also, I hope that this will motivate others to branch out and get involved in other areas of XFCE if they are interested. I'm not entirely sure what all we'll need to do to accomplish this if everyone is on board but I do know that there are similar SIG packaging groups like this for language stacks, desktop(gnome), and kde so I suspect we can request a similar setup from the appropriate group. Questions, comments, and snide remarks are welcome. :) -AdamM

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Yet more xfce 4.12 status stuff...
by Kevin Fenzi 14 Mar '15

14 Mar '15

So, I did a bit of cleanup and digging today: These 4 plugins I have retired in both rawhide and f22: xfce4-radio-plugin -> dead, retired xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin -> dead, retired xfce4-modemlights-plugin -> dead, retired xfce4-xfswitch-plugin -> dead, retired xfce4-wmdock-plugin -> dead, retired These 3 plugins need work to get them building/working with ui:· xfce4-notes-plugin -> patch on list for ui, fixed already in upstream git.· Probibly should just do a git snapshot version as they also added gtk3 support. xfce4-cellmodem-plugin -> patch in debian, needs work to apply. xfce4-timer-plugin -> we had an old version, new version uses ui, but doesn't build. (compiler issue?) If anyone would like to poke at those three and get something working, that would be great, otherwise I will try in the coming days. These 2 plugins I fixed:· xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin -> we had an old version, new version uses ui, fixed.· xfbib -> we had an old version, new version uses ui, fixed I don't want to obsolete libxfcegui4 until we sort out the 3 that still need work.· It should probibly be Obsoleted by libxfce4ui once those 3 plugins are taken care of. I've also pushed the following in f23 and as a f22 update: xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin-0.4.5-2.fc22 xfce4-dev-tools-4.12.0-1.fc22 thunar-vfs-1.2.0-15.fc22 xmonad-log-applet-2.1.0-8.fc22 xfmpc-0.2.2-9.fc22 xfbib-0.1.0-1.fc22 xfce4-panel-4.12.0-3.fc22 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/edit/xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin-0.4… (The Xfce4-panel contains Obsoletes for the retired plugins above). Karma/testing welcome. kevin

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[ F21 GNOME ] How to properly install Xfce
by Martin Cigorraga 14 Mar '15

14 Mar '15

Hi all, A while back I installed the main Fedora flavour to peek out how GNOME was doing but I want now to go back to Xfce. Alas! From what I've been researching removing GNOME Desktop is close to impossible without risking a massive wreak-havoc. OTOH I'm not going reinstall the whole stuff as I already have the system up and running the way I like it :P Until I figure out what to do with the GNOME Desktop leftovers, what would you say would be the best way to install Xfce Desktop, just issue an 'yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop"'? I won't be knocking wood, crossing my fingers and rubbing a rabbit leg through the process :S Btw, thanks a lot for your work on the upcoming lil rat release! Regards, -Martin

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