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From the Xfce mailing list: "Dear Xfce users and contributors, I would like to bring to your attention a change regarding registration on our GitLab instance.

Due to increased spam activity and Google making reCAPTCHA more difficult to use, we, the core developers, have decided to suspend new registrations until further notice.

New users can still create accounts via SSO, meaning a GitLab.com or GitHub account will be required for new contributors.

As a tentative measure, newly created users will no longer need to request fork permissions, we hope this helps lower the entry barrier.

This change is planned to take effect on 2025-02-15 (Saturday). For more details, please refer to: https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/gitlab_signup.

Cheers, Andre Miranda"

For additional details on the issue, see https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/-/issues/88

New to Lemmy.

And new to workspaces. I'd get confused at first which workspace I was on.

Different backgrounds helped a bit, but I'm almost always in maximized windows.

I wanted to have different colours for windows, panel etc but couldn't.

So I adjusted panel opacity to 95% on Enter, 75% on Leave. That allows the background colour to bleed through.

A user on the Linux Mint forums suggested adjusting workspace margins to let the background show even when windows are maximized.

So now I have an 8-pixel strip of desktop showing just above the panel. Combined with the lowered panel opacity, I never have to wondr anymore what workspace I'm on.

https://pixelfed.ca/i/web/post/803729306382291972

• Workspace [1/2/3] with windows minimized.
• Workspace [1/2/3] with window maximized, panel at "Leave" opacity of 95%.
• Workspace [1/2/3] with window maximized, panel at "Enter" opacity of 75%.

(I read somewhere that it's better to host images for Lemmy on Pixelfed. So I made my first post there with all the screenshots, and linked to it. Hope that works.)

PS: Anyone have any other ideas to help distinguish workspaces at a glance?

In preparation for some other documentation that I am currently working on, I "accidentally" managed to build a page of Xfce keyboard shortcuts for the xfwm4 window manager and some default application shortcuts.

Perhaps you will find it useful.

After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.20 !

Since Xfce 4.18 a lot of major development happened. Our team added many nice new features, did a gazillion of bug fixes and did various minor improvements. Finally, all that was released for your pleasure.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21801277

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/genmon-mpv

This project is created for use with the xfce desktop environment, and the mpv media player.

With the use of the Generic Monitor panel plugin, it displays scrolling the name of the file or the stream playing with mpv.

If another instance of mpv starts playing, genmon-mpv will display the most recently opened title of file/stream.

As soon as an mpv instance displayed is closed, and another previous instance is still open, genmon-mpv will display the title of the still open file/stream.

This project is consisted of two scripts, one in bash, and one in lua. Any feedback is most welcome.

XFCE trending on popular Hacker News!

August marks the fourth month of development for Xubuntu 24.10, “Oracular Oriole.” With the arrival of many Xfce 4.19 components, our next release is beginning to take shape. Let’s look at how things are progressing in this month’s Xubuntu development update.

An announcement from Xfce developer Alexander Schwinn([email protected])

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 24.04.

Xubuntu 24.04, codenamed Noble Numbat, is a long-term support (LTS) release and will be supported for 3 years, until 2027.

whenever i boot my computer, my keyboard layout is always set to english, and i want it to be danish instead. i tried setting the danish keyboard layout both higher and lower than the english one in the settings, but it's still set to english when i reboot.

threw this simple rice together in about half an hour

The article, for some reason, links to the goodies.xfce.org site which has been deprecated since 2019. The correct, current link for Thunar plugin documentation is https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start#thunar_plugins Enjoy!

And another one: