Download Xfce 4.4.3 / 4.6 Beta 2

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It focuses on providing a fast desktop environment without compromising on visual aspects or user-friendliness. The desktop environment uses the well-known GTK+ 2 toolkit and Xfwm as the window manager. The developers have released two new versions in recent days. Version 4.4.3 has been released in the stable branch, which fixes bugs from the previous stable release. In the unstable branch, the second beta version of Xfce 4.6 has been released, which fixes bugs and adds new features. The corresponding announcements for these two releases are as follows:

Xfce 4.4.3 released

Just because we’re gearing up to release 4.6.0, it doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten the 4.4 branch. A bunch of bug fixes had accumulated since 4.4.2, so we have a new release for you.

As usual, the stable branch only contains bug fixes, and no new features. The list of changes from 4.4.2 is available here>. Check out the download page for your closest mirror.

Xfce 4.6 Beta 2 (Hopper) released

The second Beta was delayed for 2 weeks, but it was worth it. Every feature we made a freeze exception for has made it into this release. This means a lot of bugs have been fixed this time aswell:

• The keyboard-shortcuts for xfwm4 can be configured again. (now with conflict handling)
• Session-management has been improved, apps will now be automatically restarted if they die unexpected
• It is now possible to set the desktop wallpaper from the thunar right-click menu

This are just a few changes everybody is likely to notice. A complete list of changes can be found at this location. Once again, the translators have done a great job on translating Xfce into their native language. We will probably see Xfce 4.6 be translated in more languages ​​then ever before thanks to their hard work.

Getting excited? You can download Xfce 4.6 BETA-2 from here. We hope you have a lot of fun trying out this new Xfce. If you find any issues, don’t hesitate to check out our bug tracking system and look for the bug, or submit a new report if your issues are not already mentioned.

Kind regards,
The Xfce development team