xfce March 2016

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RFE: virtual keyboard for Live DVD/USB
by ToddAndMargo 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

Dear Fedora Xfce Live Developers, Request for Enhancement: please in a virtual keyboard for those situations where the computer in question has a Blue Tooth keyboard, such as on an Apple MAC. "florence" is in the repos and works very well on my sticks I keep its RPM on a separate stick and have to "click" on it to install it. I also have it installed on my direct stick. Florence is very simple and just works without any "drama". Believe it or not, about one in every three computers I need to boot off a live or direct install stick are Apples. (You hold down the "option" [not the flower] key when booting to select your Live or direct USB.) Many thanks, -T Mac keyboards can be described in one word: miserable. Mac users must not create a lot of text. Seems like they mainly click a lot. Who knows ... Chuckle: the older versions of MAC think that the Live USB is a "Windows" stick. Newer ones call it an "efi" stick. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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efi bug on live usb to report
by ToddAndMargo 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Hi All, Would you guys please fix this for me. I am coming across a not inconsiderable number of new computers that have "legacy" boot mode locked out. Plus it would be nice to be able to boot an Apple. # livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --efi --delete-home \ --home-size-mb 4095 --overlay-size-mb 4095 --unencrypted-home \ Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso /dev/sdc No BOOT*.efi found in eltorito image. EFI will not boot Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Xfce on Fedora 24: Suggestions for Default Desktop
by Nadim Kobeissi 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

Hi everyone, I am a big fan of the Xfce spin, so much so that I use it as my regular desktop and even think it could be a contender for replacing GNOME as the default Fedora desktop (one can dream :-)) I have some experience in software usability and I would like to suggest some small changes that I think will make the Fedora 24 Xfce spin work better out of the box. As presentation aid, please find these two screenshots: Current Xfce spin default desktop: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/static/images/screenshots/screenshot-xfce.j… Suggested Xfce spin default desktop: http://i.imgur.com/XUllDME.jpg Explanations for the differences: 1) Removing the "dock" at the bottom: The dock takes up enough screen space to interfere with the Anaconda installer during the Fedora installation process from LiveUSB. This isn't obvious in the screenshot from the website due to the high screen resolution, but has been my experience every time I install Fedora on a netbook or a laptop with a smaller resolution. It also panders more to people already familiar with OS X, which is actually, statistically, a group far less likely to be the one migrating to Fedora. 2) Replace the two bars with a unified bar at the bottom: The main reason people still choose Xfce over GNOME is that it sticks to the traditional desktop metaphor. As such, we should be playing to its strengths. My suggestion illustrates a classic desktop style bottom taskbar, notification area, launchers for common applications (these can be changed, the screenshot shows my personal settings for the launchers), etc. By adopting this style, we are maximizing the efficiency in which screen space is used (helping solve problems illustrated in (1)) while at the same time making the desktop more familiar to newcomers and utilizing more of Xfce's strengths. If you like, we can also add a Workspaces panel item to the left of the notifications area. 3) Replace the Xfce Applications Menu icon with the Fedora logo: Self-explanatory, aids with better branding integration, makes the OS more cohesive, looks good. 4) Re-include blueman in the default installation: Right now, Fedora Xfce Desktop doesn't have any sort of Bluetooth management functionality out of the box. This is an oversight that can easily be fixed by shipping with either blueman or xfce-bluetooth packaged by default in Fedora 24. I strongly think these changes will make Fedora Xfce Desktop 24 much better. How can we get them to be included? What's the procedure? Regards, Nadim

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Reminder to test Xfce 4.12 packages for EPEL-7
by Mukundan Ragavan 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Reminder to test Xfce 4.12 packages for EPEL-7. Hello all, Just wanted to send out a reminder to test Xfce 4.12 packages from COPR for EPEL-7. You will need to have updated to EL-7.2 before installing the packages from this COPR. Specifically, I would be interested to know any issues with respect to upgrading from Xfce 4.10 - currently available in EPEL repos. Link to COPR - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nonamedotc/xfce412-epel7/ Thanks, Mukundan. - -- GPG Key - E5C8BC67 - ------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJW5cTBAAoJEHE/1K3lyLxnE8wP+QHOuP77Bx4E3alAvD3w5u8W oMpW4IzM50nSUETIqRUsS0an15JvpFidXaz3yV7NwMnTnR7uV7cdnQ8x4c6svJ/p TbyEFDBBeYpUT3sZbYbLIPYYY/gJUsqvMn2oYGS4Dwmfebk0XszBuPu+btom5y5s /Yxf71kVP1QHMPOyetzZr8MFLiRx1fdXtR0mnG+W/1m7TBE5Tc7wYkM3M+Me+NKB jJqYie5jcqexj7bsTjP7NIjJni1D9q8+h+dzY7urH0TcaLuykF38zK23Ffpl2Akg y3TJWntN2smXx1oqmOM88HrGr3bzbhkMNpkRygeUg/oLEiOF5ZsWXPrGdQxMOHdk o4JS+sI3drGNLhvS0o6799GC2VGiSS9livtpTMek7fTaiECUE/Gy99xq7eJ2trtC Dm//8eCADlISr7iP501wIU3bakCWJkbmxy1aLo6abWuBfOWlRPpYEbL1lx2CnGjU Q7p5bB9/ibi+5OTl/dLFuvhUEovaQgpmwSuftvn12LHJh6W1yzj29PUnnjHTINxV BaKBxQkXhO0XUqKlArRBuqkPVVXWH9fmaev6/rw8X/EOndZ0sPHPyA7Tq/VcJ8+B JL0XPMlt0MFi6cxBlwSJddN83WzDLWjB3VAsJKfjF38Bf3RSgjkzPo8tI5IW/gqB ZuKmcJSioM5p0Gcr99Mt =iTlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Desktop settings ignores me, is blank
by ToddAndMargo 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Hi All, I posted this to the regular Xfce group, but no joy. I just installed a new workstation with Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso. It comes with Xfce 4.12 Problem with Desktop Settings: It is suppose to look like: http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/WorkSpace-Wallpaper-0… But what I get is a blank "wallpaper for ...". When I go to select the folder, after exiting and restarting settings, it goes back to "none". The wallpaper area always stays empty. I also installed Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-23-10.iso to a virtual machine and was able to duplicate the issue with the exception that the virtual machine won't move off of "images" and does show three blue wallpapers. $ ps ax | grep -i xfdesktop 2429 ? Sl 0:01 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 29b1e4965-d809-48ff-92e2-dc5e898ee44c How do I fix this? And is this a "bug" in the Live ISO? Many thanks, -T

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gvfs-smb not installed by default
by Miro Hrončok 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

$SUBJ -> is there a reason? I was very confused that smb:// didn't work in Thunar by default. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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