Xfce 4.20 Released!

ToZ · 2024-12-15 12:52:34

Xfce 4.20 is a new stable version which supersedes Xfce 4.18.

You can find a release post summarizing the main changes of this release here: https://xfce.org/about/news

An online tour of the (visual) changes in Xfce 4.20 can be viewed here: https://www.xfce.org/about/tour420

A detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.18 and Xfce 4.20 can be found here: https://www.xfce.org/download/changelogs

Congratulations to the Xfce team!

Jerry3904 · 2024-12-16 10:56:50

And to think that we were just wondering what to do over the Holidays...

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Sending great KUDOS from MX Linux to the Xfce Dev Team!

vm_x · 2024-12-16 20:10:34

Good work, cheers to entire team.

dancaer69 · 2024-12-17 05:14:31

Trying to build this release on archlinux and I have an error in libxfce4windwoing:

checking for xdt-gen-visibility... no
configure: error: Unable to find xdt-gen-visibility in your PATH. Ensure that a recent enough version of xfce4-dev-tools is installed and try again.

I have installed the xfce4-dev-tools in the path($HOME/local) and I'm using:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
before run the:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local && make && make install
command but I still get this error and cannot continue. Any help?

Last edited by dancaer69 (2024-12-17 12:50:06)

ToZ · 2024-12-17 10:58:25

dancaer69 wrote:

I have installed the xfce4-dev-tools in the path($HOME/local)

What ./configure or ./autogen.sh command did you use?
Where did the xdt-gen-visibility script get installed and is that location in your PATH?

dancaer69 · 2024-12-17 12:49:36

ToZ wrote:

dancaer69 wrote:
I have installed the xfce4-dev-tools in the path($HOME/local)
What ./configure or ./autogen.sh command did you use?
Where did the xdt-gen-visibility script get installed and is that location in your PATH?

I wrote the commands I use on my previous post. I used the instructions from:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building
I downloaded the archive from here:
https://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.20/fat_tarballs/
I don't use autogen.sh(which mentioned that used with git clone way I think).
I'm installing it in $HOME/local.

Last edited by dancaer69 (2024-12-17 12:50:50)

ToZ · 2024-12-17 13:14:10

Ok, but where is xfce4-dev-tools installing the xdt-gen-visibility script ($HOME/bin or $HOME/local/bin or elsewhere)? And is this location in your $PATH so it can find it?

Also, I don't believe its recommended to install it alongside an earlier Xfce version - you'll run into alot of conflicts that you will need to manually resolve.

dancaer69 · 2024-12-17 13:22:07

ToZ wrote:

Ok, but where is xfce4-dev-tools installing the xdt-gen-visibility script ($HOME/bin or $HOME/local/bin or elsewhere)? And is this location in your $PATH so it can find it?
Also, I don't believe its recommended to install it alongside an earlier Xfce version - you'll run into alot of conflicts that you will need to manually resolve.

It's in /$HOME/local/bin. Isn't supposed that the command: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" do this? If not what is needed to do to add it?

ToZ · 2024-12-17 13:47:53

No - PKG_CONFIG_PATH points to where the pc files exist. Try exporting:

PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH

...prior to running the configure command.

dancaer69 · 2024-12-17 17:05:33

ToZ wrote:

No - PKG_CONFIG_PATH points to where the pc files exist. Try exporting:
PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH
...prior to running the configure command.

Thanks that worked fine!

xfcethunar · 2024-12-22 15:11:12

No major changes in xfce 4.20. Thunar is still a pain and the worst thing about xfce. Thunar keeps running background tasks every time I start thunar. Thunar is definitely the worst thing about xfce. I still can't deploy xfce as my main desktop.

eriefisher · 2024-12-22 18:02:10

xfcethunar wrote:

No major changes in xfce 4.20. Thunar is still a pain and the worst thing about xfce. Thunar keeps running background tasks every time I start thunar. Thunar is definitely the worst thing about xfce. I still can't deploy xfce as my main desktop.

Aside from a ton of bug fixes and new features Xfce4 now runs on Wayland. That's a lot of change right there. What background processes are you referring to?

xfcethunar · 2024-12-24 23:22:23

I have tried xubuntu 24.10. What distro do you recommend for trying xfce 4.20?

Last edited by xfcethunar (2024-12-24 23:24:14)

eight.bit.al · 2024-12-25 00:03:24

^ If you like Debian, sid.
https://siduction.org/

Porteux portable Linux.
https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v1.8

Void Linux, their default desktop.
https://voidlinux.org/

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2024-12-25 00:07:56)

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