Heya, folks! Following the announcement of the first pre-release of XFCE 4.20, we started work on updating our XFCE packages, so there would be less to do once 4.20 is actually released. If you would like to follow the development, watch this Pull Request.
Similar to what has been done recently with major Plasma and GNOME updates, I have created a separate repository that people wanting to test this new version of XFCE4 can add.
Warning!
This is meant to be used for testing purposes only! Regular users should not use this repository!
How to test
If you are an XFCE user on the Unstable repository, see our Help Center article on using a local repository. While this repository isn't local, the information and steps are the same.
- Remove your current repositories
- Add the XFCE testing repository
sudo eopkg add-repo "XFCE4 Testing" https://shared.getsol.us/ebonjaeger/xfce-testing/eopkg-index.xml.xz
- If you had a local repository set up, re-add it
sudo eopkg add-repo Local /var/lib/solbuild/local/eopkg-index.xml.xz
- Re-add the Unstable Solus repository
sudo eopkg add-repo Solus https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/unstable/eopkg-index.xml.xz
- Update the repository indexes and install updates
sudo eopkg ur && sudo eopkg update
After installing updates, restart your system.
Providing feedback
Since this is to test the next major release of a desktop environment, feedback and reporting bugs are very important. If you encounter an issue, please leave a comment on the Pull Request linked above. That way, we can ascertain if the issue is an issue with Solus packaging, or an upstream issue that then needs to be reported to XFCE.
