Welcome XFCE 4.14

Guido Falsi madpilot at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 20 00:28:05 UTC 2019


Hi,

I have just committed XFCE 414 to the ports tree, so it will be included
in the next quarterly.

This new XFCE version has all core parts updated to use GTK3.

Due to this x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine is not up to the task anymore,
since it only supports GTK 2.

XFCE 4.14 from the ports tree installs unthemed, but by default it
depends on greybird, which can be manually enabled in the configuration.
Also a few other themes are available in the ports tree. Same goes for
icon themes.

Another big change regards the Display Manager. the xfce meta port used
to depend on slim. This has changed and now xfce depends on lightdm by
default. I'd personally suggest all users to perform the switch, since
slim has not been developed for some time, while lightdm is a modern
display manager.

Please report if you encounter any problem with this update!

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot at FreeBSD.org>


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