Download Xfce 4.2.1.1

The developers of Xfce released a new version a few days ago with 4.2.1.1 as the version number. This supersedes the previous release, version 4.2.1, and fixes a rather annoying bug while saving a session in panel. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems and focuses on speed without compromising on visual aspects or user-friendliness. The changelog looks like this:

Xfce 4.2.1.1 has been released quickly after 4.2.1. It includes a fix for a bad bug where panel loses its configuration when saving the session in 4.2.1.

General:

• Don’t use G_INLINE_FUNC in the source code, which fixes several weird build errors.

gtk-xfce-engine:

• Add new dark theme “Xfce-dusk” contributed by James Golden
• Improve default theme, enhance contrasts.
• Rework progress bar drawing.

libxfce4util:

• Fix a problem with NFS mounted home directories in Solaris (#724)

xfce4-session:

• Fix RedHat shutdown code (#703)

xfdesktop:

• fix handling of quoted commands in the desktop menu (#776)
• fix handling of .desktop files with no Categories list (#776)
• add “edit menu” button to panel plugin prefs (#554), and ability to change the button tooltip (#764)
• fix broken panel plugin behavior when trying to track the default desktop menu. there’s a new option to either follow the default menu, or use a static menu file (#778)
• fix bug where xfdesktop would crash if the windowlist was opened, then a window was destroyed, and then that window was selected from the list (#672)
• fix “unique” attribute of system menu inclusion

xffm:

• ensure posix.1-1996 compatibility (#695)
• fix for crash on opening fstab on solaris (#726)
• avoid a showstopper gtk-2.4 bug (scaling gdkpixbufs from svg images). This is bugzilla #751 report. Not all gtk showstopper bugs from svg can be avoided. In particular with office/mobile_phone_01.svg. This file will also crash rox
• allow relative paths for icon resolution (xfce4-modules)
• validate utf error messages (#737)
• don’t quote paths that are already quoted.
• change smb-share icon to proper icon
• fix borked overwrite warning dialog message
• bug fixes for keyboardnavigation to close bug #795
• separate remove and paste button in toolbar to avoid confusing the remove confirmation dialog with the overwrite confirmation dialog
• fix translation problems in several languages, including brazilian-portuguese
• fill in some missing spanish translation strings
• fix for bug #524 (crashing xffm by mounting cdrom and trying to open it in the other treeview before mount is complete)

xfcalendar:

• remembering of its position (bug #691 and #789)
• warning box for preventing users to loose their changes (#714 and #738)
• possibility to show/hide xfcalendar in taskbar, pager and systray (#719)
• possibility to choose to either show or hide the calendar window when xfcalendar is launched (it remembered before the status when leaving)

xfce4 panel:

• Save configuration file only on exit
• Fix double click on inactive item in dialog (#739)
• 64 bit fix
• Clock applet tweak (#716, hopefully)

xfprint:

• remove FILE backend and add a print-to-file entry in the printing dialog
• multiple bug fixes (#816, #817, #818, #820) in the BSD-LPR backend
  (thanks to Jason Keltz for pointing them out)

xfwm4:

• Speed ​​improvement with GLX applications
• Fix Alt-Tab not focusing a window alone on a desktop (#700)
• Kbd shortcuts not working when caps lock is enabled (689)
• Window not showing when compositor is enabled (#694)
• Documentation on command line option to enable/disable xfwm4 compositor (#611)
• Improve caching of frame elements
• Fix default theme for dark gtk themes (such as Xfce-dusk)
• Various focusing issues fixed
• Optimizations of move/resize operations (#761)
• Auto maximize windows larger that screen size.
• Be more tolerant with apps manipulating frameless windows.
• Focus window on top of stack on workspace switch if no other window is eligible for focus.
• Fix uninitialized default layer for fullscreen legacy apps.
• Updated translations : hey, yes, pt_br, zh_CN, fi, lt, ko