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Travis Jeans<p>I like my Debian Xfce distro so much I made a wallpaper for it featuring some Linux mascots.</p><p>Vector artwork made entirely in Inkscape (with sketches done in Krita).</p><p>Download links on my website: <a href="https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html#debian-xfce-wallpaper" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurehorizondesign.net.au/upd</span><span class="invisible">ates.html#debian-xfce-wallpaper</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/inkscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inkscape</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/krita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>krita</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/graphicdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphicdesign</span></a></p>
Mason Pines<p>I'm about to move to a laptop rather than my desktop, in the runup to a house move.</p><p>Today, I run <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Stable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stable</span></a> (<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bookworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookworm</span></a>) and the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> desktop. That is all fine and dandy and fits my needs.</p><p>The question is whether to try something new. Be that underlying <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/distro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>distro</span></a> or desktop.</p><p>I have tried many times to move away from <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a>. But the stability of stable is difficult to argue with. I have also tried many different desktops. Be that </p><p>Gnome, KDE, or Cinnamon.<br>All of these exhibit problem areas, for me at least.</p><p>With Gnome, the Files application is so limited that I end up installing <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/thunar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thunar</span></a> from <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a>. Plus, I have to add a handful of extensions to make things more readily useful to me.</p><p>With Cinnamon, it's largely okay except for the file browser again. Too slow.</p><p>KDE looks pretty, and some of the applets are cool. But stability suffers.</p><p>Should I stay with the tried and tested, or is there something out there that has all the features and stability of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Stable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stable</span></a> with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a>.</p>
categulario 🐍 🦀 🦎 🇵🇸<p>hacía añísimos que no probaba <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde</span></a>. Había olvidado que es de hecho bonito, pero por alguna razón siempre me fui por <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnome</span></a> o en casos de hambruna <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> y hasta <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/lxde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lxde</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jloc0" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jloc0</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> has been mostly consistent(knock on wood) in keeping an ~2 year release cadence since 4.14. So, yeah, plenty of time... roughly 20 months for 4.22! </p><p>No promises or guarantees from me though. 😉</p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jloc0" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jloc0</span></a></span> </p><p>Indeed.</p><p>Aside from all of the other work going on, there is also a concerted effort to migrate from using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/autotools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autotools</span></a> to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/meson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meson</span></a> for builds. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a></p>
jloc0<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> is dropping a 4.21 dev release, and all I can think is… damn, we moving fast for xfce. 💀</p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p>FYI: updated xfce4-weather-plugin landed in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> testing today </p><p><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xfce4-weather-plugin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tracker.debian.org/pkg/xfce4-w</span><span class="invisible">eather-plugin</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a></p>
Steven Rosenberg<p>in OpenBSD with Xfce, when I have a link in another application, including Thunderbird, those links have been opening in Chromium, even though my default browser in the Xfce settings is Firefox.</p><p>There's another place where this is set, and this Stack Exchange post lays it all out.</p><p><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/696562" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unix.stackexchange.com/a/69656</span><span class="invisible">2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ruby.social/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a></p>
Root Moose<p>The one feature that I really miss in X-Window that Wayland doesn't implement...</p><p>Don't laugh or smirk...</p><p>"unclutter"</p><p>If the mouse stops moving it should disappear after X seconds. Otherwise the desktop has this ugly cursor just sitting there doing nothing.</p><p>With the new Wayland cursor protocols is this something that could be implemented now? </p><p>Could it already be implemented but is an oversight?</p><p>I'm not even disappointed about network transparency.</p><p><a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wayland</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X11</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/Plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> <a href="https://root.moose.ca/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a></p>
Tom<p>On my wife's laptop, when it was on Ubuntu 22.04 on XFCE if the laptop lid was closed to put the laptop to sleep sometimes it wouldn't resume correctly and the mouse would not register clicks and the keyboard wouldn't type unless you did Control-Alt-F1 then back to X with Control-Alt-F8.</p><p>After some more digging I discovered both TLP and ACPI were trying to suspend the laptop when you closed the lid so I disabled the suspend in TLP. Then I think I found either ConsoleKit or Upower was trying the same thing.</p><p>Anyway, her laptop had to get a minor repair (power pin became loose from the board) when it came back I reformatted it, put Void Linux on it with Mate and only the services needed and it never, ever had that suspend/resume buggy input device problem again. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ubuntu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/voidlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voidlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a></p>
:arch: XeroLinux :kdelight:<p>... Work never stops</p><p>In my spare time, I have been hard at work on a script that will be combining all other DE install scripts into one, with exception of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cosmic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmic</span></a> which will remain standalone for now. Instead I added <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a>. </p><p>Once testing is complete, will update the Wiki with new instructions.</p><p>P.S : No, there are no plans to create an XFCE spin of the Distro.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XeroLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XeroLinux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arch</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArchLinux</span></a></p>
9to5Linux<p>Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hacking</span></a> Distro Is Here with <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> 4.20, Refreshed Theme, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> Plasma 6 Support, and Major <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> Updates <a href="https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-1-ethical-hacking-distro-is-here-with-xfce-4-20-refreshed-theme" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-</span><span class="invisible">1-ethical-hacking-distro-is-here-with-xfce-4-20-refreshed-theme</span></a></p>
Evan Maddock<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://joshuastrobl.social/@me" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>me</span></a></span> what a coincidence, I've also made the decision to ship Discover on the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Budgie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budgie</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> editions of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@Solus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Solus</span></a></span> 😁</p>
jbz<p>The weather widget stopped working on XFCE. Installed genmon plugin to create my own panel widget using a regular api call to wttr.in.</p><p>At somepoint all these free api services will shutdown or tweak the ratelimit to keep going. </p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p>Policy change update to registration at gitlab.xfce.org</p><p><a href="https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/gitlab_signup" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.xfce.org/howto/gitlab_sig</span><span class="invisible">nup</span></a><br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p>For some details on the issue, see: <a href="https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/88" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/</span><span class="invisible">xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/88</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p>PSA: Issue with xfce4-weather-plugin API - update required to 11.3</p><p><a href="https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2025-March/038447.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2</span><span class="invisible">025-March/038447.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DueToCircumstancesBeyondOurControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueToCircumstancesBeyondOurControl</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p>Cautiously optimistic with potentially getting a new contributor to the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a>. They've been patient enough to get their wiki &amp; gitlab accounts set up in the past week.</p><p>Even if it's only for a handful of 'drive-by' edits, I look forward to the chance to do a little bit of mentoring/guidance. Plus it's an opportunity, for me, to reflect on the conventions we've established and improve them. </p><p>I always appreciate the offer(s) to help, no matter how large or small.</p>
nixCraft 🐧<p>Someone managed to run Linux on a Pixel 9 Pro XL (Android phone from Google) using the Terminal app, setting up XFCE within it. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1ja82u9/working_linux_xfce_on_pixel_9_pro_xl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/c</span><span class="invisible">omments/1ja82u9/working_linux_xfce_on_pixel_9_pro_xl/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a></p>
Preston Maness ☭<p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Thunar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thunar</span></a> from <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> on my <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> testing install showing off its sick <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/wavedashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wavedashing</span></a> moves while yt-dlp downloads a video in the background. Presumably because yt-dlp is creating and destroying files rapidly.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ytdlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ytdlp</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/wavedash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wavedash</span></a></p>
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