I have been contributing to Xfce since about 2013. Over the years, computers have come and gone, from netbooks to desktops to laptops. Since I moved to another country, I’ve been avoiding owning a desktop for practical reasons – the less bulky my belongings, the better. Before the move, I decided to sell my aging […]
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Apr 23,2024 Xfce is moving from IRC to Matrix After a 6-month trial period, as of April 1, 2024, Xfce moved its official communication channels from IRC to Matrix. The old IRC channels will remain open, so you can still hang out there. However, the ‘official’ channels linked in the Xfce Wiki now will be
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Apr 06,2024 An Estimate on the Total Number of Xfce Users Recently, my wife asked me how many people in total actually use the software I develop in my free time (mostly thunar). I never thought about that question, so I just made a wild guess. Based on the number of people I believed are
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Let’s look at how to install phpstorm on Ubuntu Desktop. PHPStorm is an integrated development environment for the PHP by jetbrains. PHPStorm support PHP, HTML as well as JavaScript language. For this tutorial I am using Ubuntu 16.04, but phpstorm can install on any version of Ubuntu Linux. Following are the steps you need to
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Dec 15,2022 Xfce 4.18 released After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 ! Since Xfce 4.16 a lot of major development happened. Our team added multiple nice new features, did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally, all that is going to
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Dec 01,2022 Xfce 4.18 Pre2 Released Dear Xfce community, I am happy to announce the release of Xfce4.18 pre2. This platform pre-release consists of the Xfce core components and will be followed by the final Xfce4.18 release soon. We fixed some quirks which were found in Xfce4.18 pre1, did some further polishing and the result
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Nov 20,2022 Wallpaper Contest for Xfce 4.18 – End of submissions The submission deadline for the Xfce 4.18 wallpaper contest just ended, and I am happy to see that many submissions! Starting by now, one week of voting will show which wallpapers are the most popular ones. In order to cast your vote, login at
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About the Feature This feature aims to enable the user, when in list-view, to expand non-empty folders (as shown in the image above). Additions & Behaviors, An entry has been added to the preferences dialog under Display > View Settings to define the default behavior when a new tab/window with list-view is opened. When a
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User-Profiles in Xfce-Terminal Note: This feature has not yet been merged. The UI/UX have been finalized but there are some internal implementations that are being reviewed. MR: Note: This feature has not yet been merged. MR: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/merge_requests/297 The Task The aim of this feature is to expand folders in “List View”. This can be toggled using
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Oct 20,2022 Wallpaper Contest for Xfce 4.18 Probably you already heared that Xfce 4.18 is planned to be released on 15th Dec. this year. It would be nice to have a new default wallpaper for that release. This time the idea is to ask the Xfce community to contribute a couple of wallpapers. With a
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