#xfce4 — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

So yes, I use Claude quite a bit while developing xfwl4.

welp, of all the products to have a developer embrace slop this is one directly aimed at my heart *sigh*

Literally used XFCE for twenty years at this point as my desktop environment...

#xfce #xfce4

@mwichary

Each #xfce4 release feels more stable and polished, without revolutionary changes. Updating it always feels like an improvement.

#goodtoknow :
When opening a folder (like Downloads) from within #Tor #browser, the file manager suddenly has a different (serif) font. 😲

**Which is quite clever!**

So you know you're in the browser's sandbox environment. 🤓

On #xfce4 this affects /all/ applications started from within that sandboxed #Thunar, btw.

It's been a while since I've used #Linux. Excited to join the #ArchLinux crowd, with #XFCE4 on a new #ThinkPad as my primary computer.

update: i updated the firmware using this script: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/fwscript.html

the fact that this #chromebook was completely capable of running modern firmware, but the stock firmware topped out about ~20 updates ago, really opened my eyes to the planned obsolescence in consumer tech

i'm dual booting #xubuntu thru https://chrx.org/ as a proof of concept to just play around and see what the hardware is capable of

the chromeos partition uses up a whole 10 GIGABYTES. this laptop only has like, 32gb storage or something lol. it's insane. eventually i'm gonna flash it with a full UEFI ROM and do away with chromeos entirely.

unsure what distro i'll go for after that. i'm running xubuntu with #xfce4 right now thru chrx. i daily drive #linuxmint but i worry it would be too heavy for this system, even if i went for debian edition.

i like #xfce4 in that it's similar to cinnamon. and tbh i might actually prefer thunar over nemo as a file manager.

anyone have recs for a lightweight #linux distro? ik there's loads of options but i don't have much experience with them.

My next test will be installing Cairo dock on MX Linux which I also have on a microSD card for the SBC Raspberry Pi5

https://mxlinux.org

#Cairo #dock #library #Wayland #KDE #Gnome #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #Raspberry #Pi5 #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

I've just installed Cairo Dock in my SBC Raspberry Pi5, using pi-packages the Add/Remove software utility.

What a mess I created.

Cairo Dock could not work properly. The gfx output indicated that it rendered in a manner that Wayland does not like.
I could see the window borders of the Dock which are invisible on Xorg in MX-Linux. Cairo Dock collapsed and expanded horizontally when you moved the mouse over it, with none of the applets reacting properly. They did not spawn the programs they were representing

I then proceded with sudo apt install cairo-doc from bash, after removal in pi-packages.
All dependecies were easily installed, but the rendering of my beloved Cairo dock still failed, making it still unusuable, in Wayland on the Pi5 SBC with 8GiB RAM

I will investigate, but for now I can't get the gorgeous Cairo dock to easily work on Wayland on the SBC Raspberry Pi5

#Cairo #dock #library #Wayland #KDE #Gnome #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #Raspberry #Pi5 #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

@DevWouter

Another excellent perspective on the subject at hand

This is what I Love 💕 about the FediVerse. Dynamic and open discussions on various matters in a civil way

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #Love #Universal #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

@DevWouter @florke64

Thank you 💕 for the valuable feedback Wouter. Thanks to a have another angle of insight into matters like these

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

@florke64

I've read your responses to my toot twice. Thank you 💕 for reacting.

IMHO your though process does not justify the hate you've got for localsend.

Your hate towards, the for you unknown program, localsend is **unfounded*"

Cherish the fact that there is choice and diversity in OpenSource programming.

Stable release versions for synchronizing files exist since the 1970s, not the 1990s. You've clearly not been around long enough to realize that fact **

Ever since plain simple sh existed, such programs were coded. One such program was coded more than fifty years ago and is still in active use.

Please be so kind to use wisdom and intelligence when you react and respond to toots. You acted like a typical snobbish Linux user. Reactions like yours don't contribute anything positive, no one learns from toots like the ones you posted in this thread.

I've never had such responses from the people in the BSD range of Operating Systems.

Even here on the FediVerse the diverse responses from Linux only users and programmers were not of such nature and low caliber.

I'm surprised, yet paradoxically expected your motivational chain.

** If you have been around long enough, to know open source code from the 1970s, look in the mirror and ask yourself why you have reacted in such a manner .

I will still wish you a good day / night, wherever you may reside.

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^Z

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

Website for Cairo Dock

https://www.glx-dock.org/

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

In extension of what I said here I want to expand on the joy I have with Cairo Dock coded by the GNOME team **

When you first spawn Cairo Dock it greets you with a friendly requester, asking if you want OpenGL or standard
FX created by your fully personizable Cairo Dock.

The dock defaults with a exeptionally usuable configuration out of the box. The first thing I did was seek how to spawn it from the keyboard. I only use Xorg for gfx output, of my code / programs; Im a sh warrior.

It was as straight forward as it can be
* open up the requester with right mouse
* click Cairo Doc
* choose configure
* tab on configuration
* click short keys

Every configuration tab has a logical layout and this is still in easy mode, just like VideoLan VLC has. You can later play in advanced mode and go super deep into finetuning your Cairo dock. It evan has _backgrounds_ to be confiured, if you choose to.
Cairo dock also defaults to fading out when a program of yours overlaps it, so it's out of the way, without you needing to manually hide it.

I configured a weather addon which uses https://Open-meteo.com I only needed to tell it the longtitude and lattitude of the districts I wanted in SR/SA and was done

Cairo Dock is a real fun dock to play with. Super configurable and customizable. I use it along side my XFCe4 panel and they peacefully co exist. I did much more but now want to move onto another subject

** Note:
Cairo-Dock was spawned in July 2007, when Fabounet proposed a first version on the ubuntu-fr.org forum.

This means Cairo dock has its own independent programming team. So I hereby correct myself

BTW: I entered this toot in a standardnotes window since the web viewport is too small and the android sucks at getting fast input. Nothing beats a physical keyboard

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/116007565742272118

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

I should note that you can not make the mistake of comparing KDEconnect extended capabilities with those of localsend.

They operate on totally different realms.

KDEconnect has a set of plugins which work like functional libraries. There so many that I will have to include a screenshot, just to give you a sample of what KDEconnect can actually do.

Local follows The Unix Principle; it does One thing in a does it very well.

In case you've gotten curious; you can install KDEconnect with its accompanying libraries on another working environment apart from KDE. You do not need to run a full KDE Desktop Environment.

Over here I run KDEconnect on machines which have Xfce4 running, while it's counterpart runs on a couple of Androids.
KDEconnect also runs on Ancient Android Operating Systems

The programming team of KDE does not care where you run it's wonderful software as long as you can enjoy it.

The same goes for The GNOME programming team. I run Cairo Dock ** and GPartED also on Xfce4. In fact I run many Gnome libraries in Xfce4 to have crucial functionality in many parts of the Xfce4 Desktop Environment. Without those wonderful libraries I would run a crippled version of Xfce4.

I have include screenshots from one of my energy efficient desktop computers where I will show you that I run GNOME software and KDE software in Xfce4 DE

I've just finished configuring the weather applet in Cairo Dock which gets its feed from OpenMeteo (not visible in screencap01)

**Update: Cairo Dock is programmed by it's own dedicated team. They have been doing the awesome work since 2007

In screencap 01 you see
* KDEConnect to the left
* Thunar from XFce4 to the right with important GNOME libs giving it extra functionalities
*Cairo Dock from GNOME at the bottom with advanced launch capabilities

https://open-meteo.com/

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html
#ycombinator #linux #windows #windows_11 #switched_to_linux #open_source #artix #arch #xfce4 #iphone #notebook #laptop #review #reviews #tests #test #reports #netbook #benchmarks #graphics_card #processor

Hey, anyone know how I can configure desktop shortcuts (alt-tab, alt-f4, opening app launcher) on #XFCE4 on #EndeavourOS, with an #8BitDo controller? There are two extra shoulder buttons that should work perfectly for shortcuts.

Going further, here are my current power manager settings. As they are, the display will first blank white and I enter my PW without a prompt to get to my x session. Waiting longer, the display will go from blanked white to off; this time I see the PW prompt from lightdm before I can return to the x session.

How must I change these settings to inhibit the display from entering power saving mode? How must I change them to keep the display always on?

#xfce #xfce4

Which of these things gets me to the setting where I can -- and this is the important part: -- turn off screen blanking on idle, turn off the screensaver, turn off powersaving for the monitor?

Am I perhaps missing a settings thing: which one?

I don't want the monitor to go into powersaving mode because it is getting old and takes ever longer to wake up again.

#xfce #xfce4

Chrome, Xfce и очень страшное кино

Сейчас вы снова убедитесь, что знание языка С сопоставимо с навыками самообороны, поскольку в современном мире мега-корпораций и победившего киберпанка на простых пользователей всем и давно плевать.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/971828/

#chrome #linux #systemd #inhibit #xfce #xfce4 #c_language

Hmm so I can install #guix on a Inspiron amd Vision E2 … but forget about building anything like #niri , tried twice now and it’s just too much for the old laptop. Cool part is though I can run #emacs #xfce4 #icecat all at the same time and it runs great.

@venelles The only problem I had with audio was to make it to switch from the computer speakers to the headphones when I connect the headphones but if I'm not mistaken I have pulseaudio as a dependency of something.

My first attempt was to replicate my #Devuan #xfce4 desktop functionality on #FreeBSD and I can say I was successful but I want to change things now, like switching to #enlightenment and remove all the Linuxisms I can from my FreeBSD. Thanks for sharing this.