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#xfce

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Stéphane Calonnec 🗿

🚨🚨 WARNING ! 🚨🚨
#freebsd and #Xfce users : ⛔ DO NOT upgrade pkg now, as the last pkg upgrade (to 2.1.0) introduces bugs and deletion of several ports, including XFCE dependencies. The repositories also don't have anymore the affected ports so you can't simply use pkg install.
The problem was identified and confirmed on the Freebsd forum by the team. No delay to fix AFAIK.
@xfce
edit 9 apr. : the problem looks to come from building failure of webkit2-gtk, which killed all pkg using it.

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Rivermonster

I also definitely don't think I'm ready to fully switch over either way, unless it's something with touch, like this aforementioned machine, I'm still into the blank slate slow and steady of it all with #Xfce. Wayland progress is slow and the weather plugin breaks more than it should (which is ideally never) but I don't have to be afraid of release B being radically different to release A like what happened from GNOME 2 to 3.

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Mason Pines

I'm about to move to a laptop rather than my desktop, in the runup to a house move.

Today, I run #Debian #Stable (#bookworm) and the #XFCE desktop. That is all fine and dandy and fits my needs.

The question is whether to try something new. Be that underlying #distro or desktop.

I have tried many times to move away from #Debian. But the stability of stable is difficult to argue with. I have also tried many different desktops. Be that

Gnome, KDE, or Cinnamon.
All of these exhibit problem areas, for me at least.

With Gnome, the Files application is so limited that I end up installing #thunar from #XFCE. Plus, I have to add a handful of extensions to make things more readily useful to me.

With Cinnamon, it's largely okay except for the file browser again. Too slow.

KDE looks pretty, and some of the applets are cool. But stability suffers.

Should I stay with the tried and tested, or is there something out there that has all the features and stability of #Debian #Stable with #XFCE.

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Laurie 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)

My nerd moment lately: having moved to Nextcloud and LibreOffice, I now have a much stronger usecase for using Linux in my day-to-day. I have installed Mint Xfce on a tiny shitty laptop (I'm talking 2gb RAM and 30gb SSD shitty) and I tweaked the settings using a guide, and I think it could really do the job for working on documents while out and about. I'm planning to just use it for editing documents via Nextcloud, and light web browsing.
#linux #foss #xfce

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Steven Rosenberg

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.

There's another place where this is set, and this Stack Exchange post lays it all out.

unix.stackexchange.com/a/69656

Unix & Linux Stack Exchangexfce4-terminal; change default browserNo matter what I change, my xfce4-terminal will not use chrome as the browser, and keeps opening firefox windows. tim@MushaV3 ~ $ grep 'html' ~/.config/mimeapps.list text/html=google-chrome.desktop;
#OpenBSD#Xfce#Firefox
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Tariq

#opensourceFriday

During 1990s - 2000s I ran #Linux and #BSD.

I started my #unix journey on SunOS OpenWindows and Solaris CDE - both elegant desktops.

I wanted that sweet spot again:

✅ lightweight
✅ not distracting or visually busy - don't give me a headache
✅ stay out of my way, I want to work
✅ high quality elegant design
✅ just enough convenience, but no more

I settled on the #XFCE desktop, which started in 1996 as a Linux version of CDE.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce

xfce 3 - src wikipedia
#opensource#tech
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