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.

I don't have a login to ProtonDB, but I want you all to know that Tetris the Grand Master 4 Absolute Eye works perfectly on Linux with a controller

In naher Zukunft, wenn ich mal an einem Wochenende einen Tag Zeit habe, werde ich mal wieder zurück auf #Linux wechseln. Favoriten sind aktuell #UbuntuMate, #Xubuntu und #Mint mit #XFCE oder #Mate Desktop. Wobei #Cinnamon auch einen Versuch wert wäre.

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

I have the feeling a lot of #Linux users don't "get" #manjaro. I'll try to explain, for myself anyway. I'm an advance Linux user, but I'd never call myself a guru. I'm not an IT or CS guy. My main interest is, and always has been, to get away from #windows. I've learned enough to break things, and maybe not end up formatting the drive and reinstalling. It offers just enough customisation to make it my own (in my case, #xfce) Because it's a rolling release, the #software is up-to-date but also lags a week behind #Arch, which is fine by me. And at this point, it works for me, I've learned its quirks, and don't want to hop to something else.

Walls
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First release!

A bash script which downloads the latest picture of the day from bing.com or apod.nasa.gov and sets it as a wallpaper.

Currently, supports XFCE, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, i3, MATE and Cinnamon, on Linux and BSD.

https://codeberg.org/tripplehelix/walls

#xfce is dropping a 4.21 dev release, and all I can think is… damn, we moving fast for xfce.

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.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/696562

#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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce

The one feature that I really miss in X-Window that Wayland doesn't implement...

Don't laugh or smirk...

"unclutter"

If the mouse stops moving it should disappear after X seconds. Otherwise the desktop has this ugly cursor just sitting there doing nothing.

With the new Wayland cursor protocols is this something that could be implemented now?

Could it already be implemented but is an oversight?

I'm not even disappointed about network transparency.

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.

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.

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.

... Work never stops

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 #Cosmic which will remain standalone for now. Instead I added #XFCE.

Once testing is complete, will update the Wiki with new instructions.

P.S : No, there are no plans to create an XFCE spin of the Distro.

Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical #Hacking Distro Is Here with #Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme, #KDE Plasma 6 Support, and Major #RaspberryPi Updates https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-1-ethical-hacking-distro-is-here-with-xfce-4-20-refreshed-theme

Time to toot something after lurking long enough

Yesterday I installed #freebsd 14.2 on my main machine. Setting up the base system and #xfce went well. I even was surprised that my AMD 6700 XT worked, not out of the box I might add (drm-515-kmod instead of the default drm-61-kmod), but bunsome nonetheless

But then out of the blue my #keychron Q11 stopped working. Even typing in vt(4) didn't work anymore. In loader(8), on my Debian and Winblows installation the keyboard input worked. Now the twist another keyboard worked with FreeBSD. I was quite confused TBH

Turned out that my keyboard needed a factory reset It's great that it works now but I'm not sure how to feel about this whole situation

Someone managed to run Linux on a Pixel 9 Pro XL (Android phone from Google) using the Terminal app, setting up XFCE within it. https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1ja82u9/working_linux_xfce_on_pixel_9_pro_xl/