Call for testers: Xfce 4.2.1.1 in Ubuntu Hoary Universe [from Xfld]

John Nicholls john.nicholls at acslink.aone.net.au
Wed Apr 6 09:41:03 UTC 2005


crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> Hello, folks!
> 
> The MOTU Xfce team, composed of Jani Monoses and myself, is proud to
> present you Xfce 4.2.1.1 in _your_ Hoary Universe!  This past weekend
> has been spent in an organised scramble to whip into shape the
> exciting Xfce desktop based on Xfld.  I must publicly commend my
> colleague, Jani, for his tireless work on the plugins.  It seems only
> yesterday - when in fact it was barely over _4_ days ago - that we
> began the sync from os-cillation and began making Xfce 4.2.1.1 work
> smoothly with Ubuntu Hoary.  As things currently stand, installing Xfce
> is as straightforward as:
> 
> 1) Enable universe [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UniversePackages]
> 2) sudo apt-get update
> 3) sudo apt-get install xfce4
> 
> Then simply log out and choose Xfce from the GDM Session menu.  It's
> that whizbang-easy!
> 
> Please help test the Xfce4 packages and report any grave bugs to
> Malone, our bug tracker
> [https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/distros/ubuntu].
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> On behalf of the Ubuntu MOTU Xfce team,
> Daniel
> 
> 
Installing Xfce 4.2.1.1 on my essentially standard _Warty_ system worked 
flawlessly. As others have mentioned, the Display Preferences are greyed 
out, but everything else still shows up fine.

Thanks
John






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