xfce December 2011

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Updates notifier
by Raphael Groner 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi Todd, > Is there some replacement for the package updater? As fas as I know, puplet is the systray applet for pup. Pup had been the update / package manager before it got replaced by PackageKit. Unfortunately, there's no known notification applet in PackageKit, at least not in my knowledge base. In case of Xfce, you could use a little script that uses xfce4-notify to show on-screen notification or the panel plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin that calls the script periodically. $ yum install xfce4-genmon-plugin See also http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin

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XFCE in F-16 and ssh-agent
by Ville-Pekka Vainio 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi, I'm having trouble getting ssh-agent (or something similar like gnome-keyring) working on XFCE. I know almost nothing about this stuff, but here's something I've found with Google: Bug report against GDM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632304 Upstream bug report, I wonder if Fedora is shipping these patches already: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5912 A comment on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/465996/ The latter line should probably be "xfconf-query -n -c xfce4-session -p /startup/ssh-agent/type -t string -s ssh-agent" but neither of these make any difference. -- Ville-Pekka Vainio

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automounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16
by Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

I have problems with auotmounting in XFCE 4.8 under Fedora 16. I think that I have diagnosed part of this problem. When XFCE starts, Thunar is not automatically started. Therefore there is nothing to handle the mounting part of plugging in a new volume. When Thunar is running this mounting does happen, at least for USB devices. There are lots of ways to start Thunar. Some of them start Thunar as a daemon and some of them don't. The problem with starting Thunar as a non-daemon is that Thunar will probably eventually go away, and then automounting will no longer work. It thus appears to me that XFCE should start up Thunar as a daemon during startup. This should happen before any connected external storage devices are recognized, so that volumes in them can be mounted. How can this be arranged? Should this be escalted up to a general XFCE forum, or is this specific to XFCE under Fedora? The other part of my automounting problem appears to be that Thunar doesn't have the same notion of removable drives as does the XFCE desktop manager. I have an external IDE disk. When this disk is plugged in (albeit in a slightly unusual way, as the disk is in a removable disk tray in the CD slot of a Thinkpad), the XFCE desktop correctly shows an icon for it and labels it as a removable volume. However, this volume is not automounted, even when Thunar is running. How can Thunar be coerced to automount this volume? Peter F. Patel-Schneider Bell Labs Research

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gtk2 bug breaking XFCE terminal
by Suvayu Ali 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Hi XFCE lovers, I ran into a bug[1] introduced by the latest update to gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.x86_64. This leads to XFCE Terminal ignoring the Alt key. This is rather severe since it breaks command line editing for all shells and similar utilities that use readline or similar libraries. I would file a bug report myself but at the moment I am short of time and downgrading to gtk2-2.24.7-2.fc16.x86_64 "fixes" the problem temporarily. So I thought communicating the issue to others affected might encourage them to file the report before I manage to find the time. Thanks a lot. Footnotes: [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649098> -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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Notification Area F16?
by Frank Murphy 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Although there is xfce notify, I cannot remember if there was a "notification area" plugin for the panel yum search "notification plugin" has revealed nothing? I could be getting confused in differnet DEs' -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of fedoraproject.org

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