Comments on: xfce 4.4.0 packages for ubuntu edgy and dapper (SimplyMEPIS 6.0)

By: LinuxTOY

LinuxTOY — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:52:28 +0000

Xfce 4.4.0 for Ubuntu Edgy Eft…

Xfce 在上月底发布了 4.4.0 版，新版本的改进十分突出。可能有朋友已经用上了这个版本。这里我向使用 Ubuntu Edgy Eft 的朋友推荐一个可直接安装 Xfce 4.4.0 的源。

By: mysticmike

mysticmike — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:36:07 +0000

Does the menu editor work?
Or is there an easier way to fix that problem ?

By: Tolero

Tolero — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:16:12 +0000

Do you mean ‘Applications’ menu? The menu editor is working, but the behavior in ubuntu is different from expected. In ubuntu it can only edit items added exactly by XFCE 4.4.0. All other ubuntu elements in XFCE 4.4.0 menu are known as ‘external’, and can not be edited.

By: c0de

c0de — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:33:23 +0000

Is it possible, someone create a repository for Dapper? I would be very pleased to see Xfce 4.4 for my Dapper-installation…

By: Lyosha

Lyosha — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:28:11 +0000

@c0de:

Dapper’s main selling point is stability. Edgy’s main selling point is new toys. These Xfce 4.4 packages are unofficial, therefore could be even less stable on Edgy than the official ones, and even more so on Dapper. So upgrading to Edgy might be a much safer way to use Xfce 4.4 (Beta 2 or these packages) than backporting them to Dapper (which was a bigger change to Edgy than Edgy to Feisty).

By: the idealist

the idealist — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:13:44 +0000

after installation on xubuntu edgy, terminal makes xfce restart. cannot open a terminal window. how do fix this?

By: Tolero

Tolero — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:40:42 +0000

@the idealist Says:
What is your video card? Is it ATI? And does the beryl (compiz) installed? Even if not, does the transparency is switched on in terminal settings? I suppose this can be because of try to display terminal transparancy with a 3D videocard.

By: the idealist

the idealist — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:20:03 +0000

my computer is an old vaio laptop…graphic card forget it.
is there a way to turn that off or even uninstall it, cause it seems too heave for my cpu.

By: Tolero

Tolero — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:53:19 +0000

@the idealist
There is a file ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc, which contains a xfce4-terminal settings. Find and set the background parameter to look as this:
BackgroundMode=TERMINAL_BACKGROUND_SOLID

By: the idealist

the idealist — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:40:56 +0000

Cant find the terminal file… I’m running xubuntu edgy by hte way.
Reinstalled xfce4-terminal and solved the problem.

By: jarav

jarav — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:33:38 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t find any option for choosing a xfce session in the menu after installing xubuntu-desktop. Only the old gnome session exists.

By: Tolero

Tolero — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:58:10 +0000

@jarav Check for existance of /usr/share/xsessions/xfce4.desktop file. That is the configuration file which adds xfce4 session to the gdm login screen. This file is the part of xfce4-utils package. And the xubuntu-desktop has dependency on the xfce4-utils.

By: jarav

jarav — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:13:04 +0000

Thanks. My installation was on an external usb hard disk and for some reason the apt timestamps were all wrong. After I rebooted, everything was ok. Even with the antique GeForce4 Mx 440 graphics card that i have, the transparency effects of xfce4.4 are awesome.

By: Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:18:57 +0000

Tolero — you rock! Thanks for the 4.4 packages…just what I was looking for.

By: Mily

Mily — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:14:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for the dapper packages!
I have been seeking them since stable 4.40 came out.
These packages work pretty well on my computer.
Great work!

By: needcoffee

needcoffee — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:35:07 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing your packages with us, i use your Edgy repository. I notice two thinks that won’t work for me. First one is, that i can’t set margins for the screen and the second is that the “hidden options” don’t work. The margins are not importantly, but the options. The problem is, i would like to disable the function for moving windows with alt+mousebutton, because i need this combination in inkscape Do you know how to fix this?

cheers and thanks

By: Tolero

Tolero — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:27:45 +0000

@needcoffee
You can switch off window moving with ‘Alt’ key through the xfce settings manager. You can change it under “Window manager” -> “Accessibility” section.

By: needcoffee

needcoffee — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:15:10 +0000

Thank you for the fast response, but i don’t have this option. There is just the option for moving the windows with key combinations like “schift+alt+ctrl+left” etc., nothing there with “alt+Mousebutton”. I mean this option:

“cycle_hidden=false

Add this line to your xfwm4rc file if you want to exclude hidden windows from the list presented when using the Alt+Tab shortcut.” http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfwm4#hidden_options

By: needcoffee

needcoffee — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:17:04 +0000

Ups, sorry. I mean this:

“easy_click=false

Add this line to your xfwm4rc file if you want to disable the ability to move and resize windows using the Alt button + mouse click shortcut.”

By: aasche

aasche — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:26:43 +0000

My personal short term test: now running for 5 days on 4.4.0 and everything, really everything is working as expected (ok - it’s a stable release of xfce :). No negative side effects (on my more or less customized Dapper system), and at least one Dapper bug is gone (button text in settings manager).

This unofficial release fills a big gap in desktop experience on Xubuntu Dapper. If we want to conquer old-fashioned desktops (and people) with Gnu/Linux, we need a wastebasket and easy floppy access which Dapper lacks.

Keep on the good work and greets from Germany!

By: Dwen

Dwen — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:21:23 +0000

Great work mate, appreciate it greatly.

By: Mr Andresson

Mr Andresson — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:52:13 +0000

Great work on the package. I installed xfce 4.4 on ubuntu 6.10 and it work like a charm! I only have some problems when compiling the goodies from the xfce website. It seems the xfce4-panel-1.0.pc (and more?) file is missing in the pkgconfig dir, so pkgconfig does not now about the panel library. Could you please fix this?

By: Tolero

Tolero — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:09:11 +0000

These packages are from feisty, so all what is in feisty are here without changes. This is for a safe upgrade to a feisty in future. The file xfce4-panel-1.0.pc is included in xfce4-panel-dev package, but is named as libxfce4panel-1.0.pc. To comply with xfce googies requirements just do a symlink on that file:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxfce4panel-1.0.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xfce4-panel-1.0.pc

By: wh0rd

wh0rd — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:42:54 +0000

Hey thanks for the xfce 4.4.0 repositories. They worked like a charm. xfce terminal now has true transparency!!! Again thanks for taking the time out to do this!

By: lisux

lisux — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:47:33 +0000

Thanks for these great packages.
Now I cn have VFCE 4.4 in my dapper box.
One think I am having problems with is with thunar-volman.
Ican mount and CD/DVD device as with gnome but with USB stick devices is impossibles.
When I plug in the stick the icon appears in the desktop but no thunar window with the stick contents appears, and even worse, If I try to right click on the icon to manually mount the device I get an “Impossible to mount ….: Unknown Error”
I have disabled the gnome-volumne-manager and activated thunat volume manager to do the tests.
Somebody having the same problem?

By: sodoff

sodoff — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:27:09 +0000

lisux

I.m having the exact same problem, is there any solution in sight?

By: sodoff

sodoff — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:01:16 +0000

i have solved my problmes. I just had to set the access path to the mounting point, Used the disks tool

By: tom

tom — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:10:24 +0000

I’ve been running these on edgy since I found this site. The only problem I had is with xfburn, that was solved by installing the prior (dapper) version. It appears to pass “speed=” on the command lin causing cdrecord to blow up. I haven’t looked into the cause or if a fix is out yet.

By: wh0rd

wh0rd — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:02:07 +0000

You know what would be awesome. If we got xfce 4.4.1 packages.

By: Neostar

Neostar — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:41:45 +0000

Yea I want to know the same, if they will be updated to 4.4.1. Also any chance of having x.org 7.2 backported as it has 3D acceleration drivers for those old S3 savage on-board graphics cards. As the main problem is ubuntu 7.04 is too heavy for old laptops, it would be nice to have this option on dapper.