Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi you German users, is the keyboard layout switcher plugin for xfce working in 4.6? I'm using 4.4 (default pkg from the repo) and the switcher is up the creek - work-around requires CLI commands. Also, are there massive improvements between 4.4 and 4.6? regards Adam Christoph Pilka on

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,14.May.09, 13:01:25, Adam Hardy wrote: Hi you German users, is the keyboard layout switcher plugin for xfce working in 4.6? I'm using 4.4 (default pkg from the repo) and the switcher is up the creek - work-around requires CLI commands. As far as I can tell it works now. Also, are

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-05-11 Thread Christoph Pilka
Some weeks ago I installed XFCE 4.6 on many Lenny boxes and documented the installation in a howto I have published in my wiki: http://debian.asconix.com/xfce-debian-lenny-howto Following step-by-step results in a clean and properly working XFCE 4.6 installation. Greets, Chris Magnus

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-30 Thread Thorny
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:48:48 -0400, Rob McBroom posted: On 2009-Apr-29, at 2:40 AM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I wouldn't mix stable and testing, get XFCE from backports if it is available or run testing. Someone on another list once told me: As long as you can install the package

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Rob McBroom wrote: On 2009-Apr-29, at 2:40 AM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I wouldn't mix stable and testing, get XFCE from backports if it is available or run testing. Someone on another list once told me: As long as you can install the package from Debian unstable directly on stable,

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-29 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Matteo Riva wrote: Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was doing. Now since I'm running a fresh and clean Lenny install I'm here

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-29 Thread Matteo Riva
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: If you are asking this question, I should say DO NOT MIX although it probably work most of time for now until testing get more newer libraries.  For reason, please read: Your for now made me think that mixing packages gets

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-29 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-29, at 2:40 AM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I wouldn't mix stable and testing, get XFCE from backports if it is available or run testing. Someone on another list once told me: As long as you can install the package from Debian unstable directly on stable, which has always

Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-28 Thread Matteo Riva
Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was doing. Now since I'm running a fresh and clean Lenny install I'm here to ask what is the

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In f437ec30904281645v36762c24n6ad66abc85459...@mail.gmail.com, Matteo Riva wrote: Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was doing.

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:45:22AM +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was doing. Now since I'm