Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” Xfce released!

[clem]

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2753

[dXTC]

I've been waiting for this one! My hand-me-down P4 shall see new life once more, and I just might be getting a secondhand netbook in a couple of days on which this could do well.

Time to fire up the ol' Transmission...

[nomko]

Seems to be some issues with Compiz going on under Xfce. Will this be fixed?

[The Dark Side]

Congratulations for another Great Release, Linux Mint Team !!!! Linux Mint 17.1 with XFCE it's really Excellent !!!! Regards.-

[jsalpha2]

Thanks for taking care of all the Xfce fans! Going to upgrade now.

[dnsbob]

Searched but could not find an answer to this - Is there a way to get an email (or just few) when a new version is released?

[catfish12]

Excellent Clem and mint team mint xfce is my favourite distro
thanks for all the hard work mint 17.1 xfce and the new update manager and kernel update
super

[richyrich]

@ dnsbob , you could just use your favorite RSS Feedreader and subscribe to Mint Blog's RSS feed . . blog link right above in Clem's post.

[/dev/urandom]

Updating decentral eD2k/Kad mirrors in a few minutes. Thanks, Mint team!

[dnsbob]

Thanks richyrich, I found an RSS to email service and subscribed to the feed. I certainly don't want to try to remember to check an RSS app somewhere.

[Night Wing]

I've got one "hiccup" with 17.1 "Rebecca" Xfce. It may be a bug or it may be just a glitch with my hardware on one of of my desktop computers. I'm not sure which it is.

The hiccup for me; it shows me the time at the far right of the bottom panel, but it will not show me the day and date. I have to hover my cursor over the time and when I do, then a small window appears showing me the day and date.

I have a second desktop computer and it has 17 "Qiana" Xfce on it and with this hiccup with Rebecca, I plan to keep Qiana on my second desktop computer.

If this is a bug, does anyone know how to fix this?

[WinterTroubles]

Nightwing

If you right click your clock and select properties, then look for the Format box in the window, you can choose custom format and, using the information on this page http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/clock, set the clock to display a variety of formats (with or without date).

Such as.... %H:%m %d/%m/%Y
will display..... 22:16 13/01/2015

Hope this helps
WT

[Night Wing]

@WinterTroubles

Thanks for your help. I know about the custom format, but I was hoping I wouldn't have to use that. Looks like I have no choice so I'll try it and see how it goes.

What I was trying for in Rebecca was something which mirrors Qiana's time and date such as:

7:55 am
Tue, Jan 13, 2015

[Creto]

the package is broken mintstick on Mint Xfce 17.1?

here it's!

T+ = Bye

[WinterTroubles]

@Night Wing

Edited... Please see richyrich's post below... It seems he's far more useful than me

[richyrich]

@ Night Wing , solution to the date/time here : http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=187181

[Night Wing]

@richyrich

Thank you for the link and the plugin solution found in the Synaptic Package Manager.

[Night Wing]

Unfortunately, the solution did not work for me. Still no day and date even though it's listed correctly in Properties and the correct plugin is installed via the Synaptic Package Manager. I even re-stared my desktop computer and still no joy.

[MtnDewManiac]

Unfortunately, the solution did not work for me. Still no day and date even though it's listed correctly in Properties and the correct plugin is installed via the Synaptic Package Manager. I even re-stared my desktop computer and still no joy.

It's a long shot, but could the plug-in's font be too large for it to display both lines of information? I guess you could try increasing the size of your panel to check that.

Regards,
MDM

[richyrich]

@ Night Wing - Did you right-click -> add the new DateTime to the panel ?