Download Xfce 4.6.1

Just under two weeks ago, the first update was released for the 4.6 version of Xfce, which was released at the end of February. This lightweight desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems focuses on speed without compromising on visual aspects or usability. Many changes have been made in version 4.6. For example, the configuration backend has been completely replaced and the settings manager and the session manager have been renewed. More information about the innovations in version 4.6 is in this visual tour to find. In version 4.6.1, mostly small creases have been smoothed out in all kinds of areas. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Utility Library (libxfce4util):

• Updated translations: Japanese, Spanish, Galician, Slovenian, Polish, Romanian.

Widget Library (libxfcegui4):

• Updated translations: Polish, Japanese, Galician, Portuguese, Norwegian, Spanish.

Extension Library (exo):

• Quote arguments passed to exo-open (Bug #5132).
• Add gettext() call around two strings which are already as translatable with N_() (Bug #5203).
• Fix broken build due to incomplete integration of the Danish and Galician manual translations.

Menu Library (libxfce4menu):

• Remove gtk+-2.0 from the dependency field of pkg-config file. Add glib-2.0 and gthread-2.0 instead.
• Update translations: Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Galician

Window Manager (xfwm4):

• Reduce repaint timeout in the compositor (Bug #5080)
• Fix applications getting focused when focus on map is unset even without focus stealing prevention enabled (Bug #5044)
• Reduce minimum timeout for focus delay in focus follow mouse (100ms was way too much)
• Fix raise delay settings in xfwm4 dialog being totally ignored
• Avoid unecessary warnings about timestamps at startup
• Fix a long standing bug in xfwm4 4.6 were activating a transient would not regrab the mouse on parent window.
• Do not go over adjacent windows with fill (Bug #5152)
• Do not actually change window layer when status is above, below or fullscreen (Bug #5030)
• Check fullscreen status against each monitor and not just the overall screen size in the compositor.
• Fix remaining active grab if shortcut is not used (Bug #5207)
• Plug various memory leaks
• Updated translations: Polish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, English (GB), Spanish, Czech, Turkish.

Desktop Manager (xfdesktop):

• Fix desktop menu failing to load on FreeBSD (Bug #3370).
• Ensure root window properties get deleted when xfdesktop quits (Bug #5154).
• Reload the backdrop and icon view when ‘xfdesktop –reload’ is run (Bug #5156).
• Make default button in ‘delete multiple’ dialog consistent with default in ‘delete single’ dialog (Bug #5140).
• Reload the desktop when the first image is added to an image list (Bug #5001).
• Auto-select new images as they are added to the settings dialog’s image list (Bug #5014).

Panel (xfce4 panel):

• Migrate launcher category icons from 4.4 panels (Bug #5067).
• Fix compilation with -Wl,–as-needed (Bug #5103).
• Don’t crash when the quit action button is pressed (Bug #5118).
• Properly set the systray orientation property (Bug #5149).
• Fix xfce-hvbox not working with gtk 2.16 (Bug #5166).
• Don’t crash the launcher plugin when the launcher entry list is empty.
• Add icon-name fallback to the show desktop plugin (Bug #5117).
• Disconnect the icon theme changed signal from a launcher when it is destroyed to avoid crash when the icon theme changes.
• Fix drawing dots mode of the seperator plugin in a vertical panel (Bug #5162).
• Fix a possible crash when setting the session restart style on an uninitialized client session.
• A whole bunch of translation updated (Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Galician, Norwegian).

Session Manager (xfce4-session):

• Fix crash in settings dialog when a .desktop file with a missing Application key is opened (Bug #5020).
• Ensure networked session handling over TCP is disabled by default (Bug #5126).

Settings Manager (xfce4-settings):

• Use the folder name for selecting the icon- and style-theme in the appearance dialog (Bug #4997).
• Make sure inputproto 1.4.2 is available before enabling device hotplugging in the code (Bug #5084).
• Remove unsigned clamp macro that broke applying the display settings and select the correct refresh rate (Bug #4966).
• Make sure that the same .desktop file does not appear in the settings-manager more then once if it occurs in different locations in XDG_DATA_DIRS (Bug #5159)

Configuration Manager (xfconf):

• Be a bit safer when writing out channel xml files: flush data to disk using fdatasync()/fsync() before renaming over the old file.
• Updated translations: pl, es, it, gl, pl, pt, uk

File Manager (thunar):

• Put quotes around filenames in thunar-wallpaper-plugin (Bug #5056)
• Apply umask properly when creating files/directories. Patch by Giovanni Bechis (Bug #3532).

Mixer (xfce4 mixer):

• Make q and s trigger the corresponding actions.
• Minor cosmetic fixes (row spacing or 6px in tables).
• Add missing AudioVideo category which is obligatory if you use the Audio category (Bug #4933).
• Display mute/record state properly on startup (Bug #5002).
• Fix segfault when destroying the plugin
• Move capture track check into xfce_mixer_track_update_record().
• Don’t increment the reference count on GObjects when passing them to GValue using g_value_set_object().
• Fix crash with backends where the GstMixer implementation has no “device-name” property (Bug #5201).
• Include libxfcegui4.h to avoid implicit declaration of xfce_err().
• Translation updates: Spanish, Polish, Galician, Portuguese, Italian

Utilities (xfce-utils):

• Reset icon theme name if the migrated icon theme name (possibly ‘Rodent’) doesn’t exist anymore.
• Remove a bash-ishm (‘source’) from xinitrc.

Application Finder (xfce4 appfinder):

• Translation updates: Polish, Spanish, Portuguese

Xfce 4.6 with the application finder