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Xfce 4.12 for Porteus x64 RC3
Posted: 16 Jul 2021, 12:11
by fulalas
As you may know, Xfce is going to a controversial direction. Not only current 4.16 is slower than 4.12, but it has many annoying bugs that haven't been fixed even in current developer stage, not to mention some odd UI designs. And apart from High DPI support I don't see any useful change in 4.16 that justifies its drawbacks. Because of that I decided to provide this 4.12 module that has the following highlights:
1- compiled using Clear Linux compile flags, which means it's the fastest build you can find;
2- built packages as much as possible using GTK2, since it's faster than GTK3. Unfortunately some packages in 4.12 already depend on GTK3, like exo and terminal.
3- task manager now informs the actual memory consumption (i.e. including any files copied to Union, like loaded xzm modules);
4- module compressed using zstd (a bit bigger in size, but much faster decompression times);
Current version:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/menyth8p ... 211115.xzm
(15.2 MB)
Old version:
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 17 Jul 2021, 11:47
by donald
Thanks a lot!
...looks good so far - (reusing my old.gtkrc-2.0 file).
...I also made a module to have iso-master and gcolor2 back.
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 17 Jul 2021, 16:40
by Rapha_
It's incredible how much we can gain with this one !
Thank you !
I measured that we could display at least 7 windows of firefox for the same cpu level/memory compared with the previous one (only 3 windows)
A little bug with the size of icons (very big ) with Thunar in liste and icon view...?
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 17 Jul 2021, 23:21
by fulalas
Rapha_ wrote: ↑17 Jul 2021, 16:40
A little bug with the size of icons (very big ) with Thunar in liste and icon view...?
Do you mind sharing a screenshot?
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 19 Jul 2021, 15:56
by Rapha_
I'm sorry...Forget this error: it's related to a session registered from the previous version (0rc2)
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 16 Sep 2021, 22:43
by Rapha_
I love this version! Nice design and very fast!
(the other version is too much heavy)
This version should be highlighted...Why not keep it on the ftp sites ?
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 23 Sep 2021, 13:16
by donald
Tip
create /home/guest/
.gtkrc-2.0 with following content:
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style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 10
base[NORMAL] = "#000000"
base[SELECTED] = "#71B9FF"
base[ACTIVE] = "#71FFAD"
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
fg[SELECTED] = "#71B9FF"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#71FFAD" }
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
result:
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 24 Sep 2021, 02:11
by fulalas
Nice one, donald! Thanks
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 24 Sep 2021, 08:50
by ronriel
Thank you for this!
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 10 Nov 2021, 17:38
by Rapha_
As the script
lsmodules, to activate (or deactivate) the modules was missing, I copied it from another desktop to the appropriate
rootcopy folder :
/porteus/
rootcopy_xfce_new/usr/bin/
I created a laucher
Activated modules.desktop to be able to click it from the Desktop :
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Activated modules
Comment=
Exec=psu /usr/bin/lsmodules
Icon=dialog-ok-apply
Path=
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Name[en_US.UTF-8]=Activated modules
So I copied it in a rootcopy folder:
/porteus/
rootcopy_xfce_new/home/guest/Desktop/
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 10 Nov 2021, 23:00
by fulalas
Yeah, I also noticed that a few days ago. I already have an updated module here with other minor changes, but I need to test it before uploading.
Thanks for helping!
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 11 Nov 2021, 10:39
by fulalas
Here we go -- I think I've never seen so many '1' together
.Focused buttons have now a more obvious highlight.
.Minimized windows have their respective buttons greyed out in the taskbar (just like Xfce 4.16).
.Updated all non-Xfce packages -- well, apart from Audacious.
.Maybe more small things that I can't remember
https://www.mediafire.com/file/yygw53l8 ... 211111.xzm
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 13:16
by Rava
downloading… from Port 4.0i586 since my wireless issue on my 5.0rc3 x86-64 is still awaiting solution.
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 13:21
by beny
hi Rava the tread of your wifi issue?
Xfce 4.12 for Porteus RC3
Posted: 13 Nov 2021, 21:50
by roadie
Is anyone else getting this error in 4.12-20211111?.......5.0-rc3 64bit version
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porteus:[guest]:~$ epdfview
epdfview: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libpoppler-glib.so.8)
epdfview: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.114)
It works in 4.16......both tests in Always Fresh.