Comments on: Review – openSUSE 11.4 and the much improved XFCE 4.8

By: Andres

Andres — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:57:25 +0000

In previous versions of openSUSE, XFCE used to load the Qt frontend of YaST for GUI. Is it possible to use YaST GTK+ GUI on this last version of openSUSE? If not, why it’s not possible? what can we do to get it working properly?

By: Ron\

Ron\ — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:21:15 +0000

Linux is becoming as bloated as windows. Opensuse with KDE will confirm that.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:16:54 +0000

Tried out XFCE last week, was reasonably impressed until I tried playing music through my external USB DAC. And no go, couldn’t get it working after an hour or so’s efforts and web searching. Everything works find under KDE. Ah well, this was a game breaker for me, so back to KDE …

P.S. Parole is very basic if you have any sort of large media library.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:53:48 +0000

I tried Education openSUSE LiveDVD, EVEN Open Office does not work. And we supposed to love linux after windows, changing stupidity for stupidity…

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:41:40 +0000

GBer has promised to make one himself, I think he’ll do a better job than I did ;-)

(I had some issues with theming etc so my image is bad out of the box – had to install things on the USB once downloaded so testdrive is crappy)

By: jefe

jefe — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:45:38 +0000

Can we testdrive the image you built?

By: Jos Poortvliet

Jos Poortvliet — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:12:26 +0000

@gumb: be sure to give Guido some feedback if you’ve tested it!

@Chen Xiao-Long: Ive typed that 1000 times by accident, I bet there are one or two still in there, will try to fix em :D

@Barnaby: Xarchiver is mentioned as an LXDE project on the LXDE website: http://lxde.org/lxde

By: Barnaby

Barnaby — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:23:37 +0000

Xarchiver is not part of LXDE, it has been around far longer and is frequently used in Xfce4 desktops instead of file-roller.

By: Chen Xiao-Long

Chen Xiao-Long — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:06:37 +0000

Typo: “Getting used to *XFCD* 4.8″ (subtitle) :D

By: gumb

gumb — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:08:31 +0000

Great to see some attention being given to XFCE on openSUSE at last. Been running it on 11.3 on a spare old PIII machine with 256mb RAM, having previously tried the Xubuntu 8.04 flavour. On openSUSE 11.3 it struggles a bit, but it’s the comparative polish (or lack of it) that caused me the concern, so it’s nice to see from the screenshots above that somebody’s working on this. More of a KDE user myself, but for ageing hardware XFCE can eke out a few more years’ useful life.

Most of all, I hope issues with GDM have been resolved because having set that up on 11.3 it is very buggy and doesn’t display the user names correctly (when auto-login is disabled), sometimes even preventing login at all and requiring some command line fiddling to sort out. The default XDM login screen was ghastly and went unchanged for several releases. Congrats to Guido for making the effort and making XFCE on SUSE 11.4 a more serious proposition. Will upgrade soon and give it a spin.