Ubuntu Karmic fail report: Xorg update breaks screensaver on Intel 830m video
I don’t know whether or not this is just me that Ubuntu and/or Xorg is trying to kill, but my latest Intel-graphics honeymoon is most definitely over. Yesterday I used Aptitude to pull in the latest...
View ArticleI try the Fedora 12 Xfce spin
Never mind that one of my two Debian Lenny Xfce installations is seriously ailing at the moment. I’m not letting that dampen my future enthusiasm for the Xfce spin of Fedora 12, which I downloaded last...
View ArticleUbuntu shouldn’t matter to those who care about free desktops
So Canonical is chaining its desktop Ubuntu Linux distribution to a phone/tablet/TV future, and they want us, the community, to write apps for their in-the-works devices and not care so much about the...
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Delete directly without using/needing Trash in Xfce’s Thunar file manager...
Why do I need to delete in Xfce without first sending things to the trash? Because Thunar otherwise can’t delete directories/folders on a partition outside my main filesystem. Out of the box, the...
View ArticleI like what GNOME 3 and Unity are doing, so I’m replicating those things in Xfce
It sounds screwy, but I’m taking some of the elements I like in GNOME 3 and Unity and implementing them in Xfce. First of all, I really like the idea of having a panel on the left side of the …...
View ArticleI installed the Whisker Menu for Xfce
I just read about the Whisker Menu for Xfce at OMG! Ubuntu and installed it on my system from the Fedora repositories. While I’m happy with my panel on the left and the traditional Xfce Application...
View ArticleI like the Xfce Whisker Menu
Those who saw yesterday’s entry know that I at once discovered and installed the Xfce Whisker Menu on my Fedora 19 Xfce system. I already had the standard Xfce Application Finder bound to my alt-F2,...
View ArticleJordi Mallach: Why GNOME should be the default desktop environment in Debian...
Jordi Mallach details in a post I found via Google Plus why GNOME should remain the default desktop environment in Debian Jessie despite the usual switch to Xfce prompted by a desire to keep the ISO...
View ArticleFedora Rawhide Xfce looking great as we approach F21 release
So I’ve been looking on the Fedora Release Engineering Dashboard for the latest builds of all things Fedora, and I picked up the Aug. 11, 2014 ISO of the Xfce live spin. I used the Fedora USB Creator...
View ArticleHammering hard on Xfce 4.10 in Fedora 20
So I’m working from home today and doing the full $dayjob breaking-news production routine (anything that nine websites throws at me plus other assorted sundries) in Fedora 20 with Xfce 4.10. When I’m...
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