Xfce environment and its ports on FreeBSD.

• ChrisRees
• EmanuelHaupt
• MartinWilke
• GuidoFalsi (madpilot@)

Contributors:

• OlivierDuchateau

Feel free to connect and ask questions or discuss a future of Xfce on FreeBSD.

• freebsd-xfce mailing list
• IRC: #freebsd-xfce on Efnet

This section describes development, notes.

URL: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/xfce4/subversion/source

Below graph of Xfce's dependencies chain used in Mk/Uses/xfce.mk.

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xfcemerge is available in trunk/Tools/scripts directory, in order to update your ports tree .

Usage:

# sh xfcemerge -h
usage: xfcemerge [-c] [-m] [-r]

options:
  -c    Checkout the Xfce devel repo
  -m    Merge into the ports tree
  -r    Remove local changes in ports tree

Bugzilla PRs

• PR199175
• PR199166
• PR182561
• PR177616
• PR165685

Changes between 4.10 and 4.11 4.12:

• Adwaita is default icons theme
• SLiM replaces Gdm in meta port (x11-wm/xfce4) r376142
• GTK3 option is enabled by default in x11/libxfce4menu (mandatory for multimedia/xfce4-parole)
• GTK3 is optional for misc/xfce4-appfinder, editors/mousepad (unset) and x11-wm/xfce4-panel (set, for better support of Gtk3 applications)
• GStreamer 1.0 is enabled by default in multimedia/xfce4-parole (we follow upstream changes)
• Support of GTK3 was dropped in x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine (see discussion)
• Wallpaper plugin (Thunar) set by default

Short video, which shows significant changes to the end user.

Changes between 4.12 and 4.13:

• Switch to Gtk3

1. Support of GStreamer 0.10 has been removed
2. Support both GTK2 and GTK3
3. Require Gtk3 >= 3.20 (current patch is not good enough)
4. Require sysutils/garcon >= 0.5, x11/libexo >= 0.11 and x11/libxfce4menu >= 4.13

A review is available D1305. This document might be outdated.

How to use ConsoleKit2?

1. Get the port:

svn co https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/xfce4/trunk/sysutils/consolekit

2. Copy it to your ports tree

3. Rebuild every port (installed on your system), which depends of sysutils/consolekit.

• audio/pulseaudio
• ports-mgmt/packagekit
• sysutils/hal
• x11/cinnamon-session
• x11/gdm
• x11/gnome-session
• x11/kde4-workspace
• x11/mate-session-manager
• x11/slim
• x11-wm/xfce4-session
• www/gnome-user-share

Xfce supports PulseAudio?

Yes :)

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