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Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (SantaFe) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:11:16 +0000

Got it working fine now, just one question, are you (if you have spare time on your hands) going to update thunar to the latest version?

Just wondering.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (nhtrader) — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:11:11 +0000

skodsamler wrote:

nhtrader did as u said and all i think is ok. now what is the steps to use xfce ??
i have booted and has still ubuntu desktop etc, and i am running on 4gb usbdrive so if i can remove ubuntuś things that i use with xfce it would be great. or if i dont want xfce how do i remove it again ?
best regards skodsamler denmark

I didn't have this problem b/c my machine was gnome free. My install was a xubuntu with MythTV loaded on to it.

As for your dual desktop environment, I'd guess you would have to log out of your gnome based session and log back in after selecting xfce. Again, I don't know how to change the startup sequence to make xfce your default desktop. Perhaps a post to the ubuntuforums.org in the "Desktop Environment" or "General Help" forum may help.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (gregg128) — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:18:52 +0000

2 koshi
Please please build also thunar plugins! Especially the arhive-plugin!
Tnx for you work.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (skodsamler) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:39:25 +0000

nhtrader did as u said and all i think is ok. now what is the steps to use xfce ??
i have booted and has still ubuntu desktop etc, and i am running on 4gb usbdrive so if i can remove ubuntuś things that i use with xfce it would be great. or if i dont want xfce how do i remove it again ?
best regards skodsamler denmark

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (nhtrader) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:23:47 +0000

Just upgraded my Mythbuntu 10.10 (32bit) using ppa:koshi/xfce-4.8 no problems. It improved my CD-ROM detection.

Steps used...
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:koshi/xfce-4.8
2. sudo apt-get update

now use Update Manager - new packages detected, downloaded, and installed.

No reboot required.

Very simple. Very easy. Superb. Sublime.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (Nick) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:41:26 +0000

SantaFe wrote:

Nick wrote:
Just a note, the ppa's created by koshi are not officially supported by xubuntu.
I know (hangs head in shame! ) Just wanted to try it out. I'll wait till the official one's released to us poor K/Ubuntu users.

Everybody is free to use it obviously, just saying...

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (SantaFe) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:32:50 +0000

Nick wrote:

Just a note, the ppa's created by koshi are not officially supported by xubuntu.

I know (hangs head in shame! ) Just wanted to try it out. I'll wait till the official one's released to us poor K/Ubuntu users.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (Nick) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:25:38 +0000

Just a note, the ppa's created by koshi are not officially supported by xubuntu.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (Zc456) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:34:06 +0000

Thank you. Managed to update a freshly installed Xubuntu 10.10 from XFCE 4.5 to 4.8 which is working good so far.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (SantaFe) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:17:01 +0000

Well, followed your instructions and I had Xfce 4.8 running on my Kubuntu 10.10 32 bit box, for awhile. Then for some strange reason XFWM4 just up & quit, as well as the Workspace manager plugin (it went from showing 4 workspaces to only one, no matter what number I picked). No window decorations or anything. Funny thing was, I could type into input boxes & leafpad fine, but not into a terminal window. Went into KDE which still worked fine & used the apt-get install ppa-purge line you posted to remove everything and tried again. Same problem even though I deleted the xfce4 folder in .config to force a new desktop.

Any ideas what happened? I've removed it again, as well as every xfce4 related file using sudo dolphin so all that's left are the icons.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (xfcelav) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:56:06 +0000

koshi wrote:

Rebuilding for lucid seems to require quite a few changes to packages (dependencies and such). So no, I will not do that.

Well, thanks anyway. Insurance Maverick users will appreciate.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (pcybill) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:14:02 +0000

Allow me to voice my gratitude as well Koshi. Your work is very much appreciated.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (koshi) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:02:04 +0000

Rebuilding for lucid seems to require quite a few changes to packages (dependencies and such). So no, I will not do that.

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (xfcelav) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:31:49 +0000

Hi:

You do not have plans to launch the Lucid version? LMDE use and I can only use packages Lucid ...

Re: ubuntu maverick (10.10) ppa for xfce 4.8

dummy@example.com (koshi) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:43:09 +0000

I've added xfce4-screenshooter as well as the updates for terminal, xfce4-panel, xfce4-settings, xfce-utils, xfwm4, xfdesktop and thunar that were released yesterday.