As much I love XFCE, I've been wondering the same thing lately. 4.10 is getting old, 4.11 (the development version of XFCE) is a mess and 4.12 is no nearer to release than it was a year ago. Not to mention (or maybe it should be mentioned, because this is probably the cause of a large number of XFCE...

Schoelje wrote: So, I'll have to dig into the source to check where the colors are defined.

Or you could just ask Simon, he's usually pretty open about these things He can usually be found on the #xubuntu-devel (ochosi) or http://shimmerproject.org/project/greybird/

So will have to look into my other options to get Krita 2.8 and Calibre fixes. Calibre is easy. From the website ( http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux) sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main...

Just what's here https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.12/roadmap

Reading between the lines in other distros' forums/channels, xfce is suffering from a severe manpower shortage which affects what they can do, how much and when.

elwydragon wrote:...when booted up I opened task manager and I'm using 596 megs of ram. This is really heavy for Xfce.

You wouldn't happen to be using nvidia drivers, by chance?

The main object of the post was really the first paragraph (su cannot be executed as a subprocess [now]) rather than the result (I always wanted to name something with a recursive acronym) Didn't want you to waste time/enegy/beer on trying to solve a problem that had no real internal solution.

I have no idea why gksu is giving that error :? In a another distro that I dabble in (Salix OS), this sort of problem came up in the last upgrade development cycle. Not sure if it's really any help but here's what they had to say about it: http://salixos.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gksu-problem.html ....

decrypted wrote:Not sure what you mean of how that was 'how not to ask help'...

Well, you started out with "WTF" and ended up with "Don't tell me....". Sounds pretty rude to me.

And this, my dear children, is the canonical example of how NOT to ask for help.

longtom wrote:It certainly was quite an improvement in my house on CP/M . Anybody remembers that?

Fondly, as in it's been long enough that one forgets all the bad things and only remembers the good times.

...Agreed but maybe the solution would be... Oh, I have <no> idea how to fix it, in all honesty I'm content to let those with far more knowledge figure that out. I just want to make sure they know that <someone> thinks its not a good idea. ...my desktop is pretty. But obviously mine's prettier :)

zerozero wrote:...but back in the day...

Like I said, I understand the reasoning, and if I were the one making the decision, I'd probably make the same one.

But I still think the point made in my EDIT: is valid

wisemagic wrote:Oh, I don't have a touch pad, and thought the setting would work for both. Sorry

It does (on my machine at least).

OP, check to see that you have chosen the appropriate device (in my case Logitech USB mouse <AND/OR> ALPS GlidePoint - the trackpad)

Xfce and KDE are two different DEs with different personalities, I don't see the need to make them look the same indeed :) but SolydX and SolydK are 2 faces of the same distribution, so it makes sense to have continuity (even visual) True Dat :) And I do understand the reasoning behind the decision...

Recy wrote:When I try to change the icon theme or the mouse theme, it doesn't change. When I change the gtk change, the colors don't change.

Change the theme, WM, icons, etc. ... logout and back in. Oxygen-gtk is a jealous theme and will tolerate no false themes

Edit: I was mistaken, the icon theme is call elementary-xfce-darker . Be careful when transposing icon sets between distros (or importing from the source) to get everything you need. For example, elementary-xfce-darker "Inherits=elementary-xfce-dark" (from the index.theme, hint hint), which "Inheri...

Schoelje wrote:@smitty
I've updated the pre-script (and the downloadable script for terminal update).
I haven't tested it yet in an upgrade yet, but it should solve that issue.

Does this mean that the ~/.mozilla now is 777 by default?

MAYBL8 wrote:The only problem I have with this thinking is :
How does he buy a car?
How does he buy a TV?
There are so many choices.

Or even breakfast cereal or orange juice

From a very limited google search of this problem (months ago), it appears that is a pulseaudio problem, and pulseaudio uses a seperate code for mute and unmute (but I could be misremembering, or just plain wrong). Rather that play around with any one of the many solutions I found, I just got rid of...

Why does that picture remind me of HHGTTG?