Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Xfce – BETA Release

[clem]

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4521

[rattkjelke]

I don't know if this is a bug or something broke on my end. Somebody else needs to confirm this.

I installed 21.2 Xfce Beta in VirtualBox. When I open Thunar and View>Configure Toolbar... and enable all the icons the Compact View icon doesn't appear in the toolbar, as if the icon image file is missing or broken.

[JesseRBassett]

I believe I read in the release notes that what you experienced is a commonly known bug for this release.

[rattkjelke]

I believe I read in the release notes that what you experienced is a commonly known bug for this release.

Where did you read that? I don't see anything about Thunar toolbar icon bugs on any of these pages:
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4521
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_victoria_ ... atsnew.php
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_victoria_xfce.php

For me all the icons only appear properly when using Papirus icon themes.
When I use any other theme the "Compact List View" icon does not appear and in some themes the "Open in Terminal" icon also does not appear.

[marts123]

An update for the icon fetishist

[Jaaxx]

Mint 21.2 XFCE Beta
Laptop Intel i7 Haswell

Is anyone seeing very abnormally high cpu on videos in browser? I just tested from a fresh install and a live USB session and Chrome/Firefox both have two threads running at over 75% when watching a youtube video at 720p. In 21.1 I get two threads at about 7-8%. This is nuts!

CONFIRMED: This issue is not present in 21.2 Mate or Cinnamon. Too bad this info can't be added to a bug report.

[jackkileen]

Mint 21.2 XFCE Beta
Laptop Intel i7 Haswell
Is anyone seeing very abnormally high cpu on videos in browser?

11% CPU usage max Desktop with display resolution @ 1920 x 1080 in VM environment.

[Jaaxx]

11% CPU usage max Desktop with display resolution @ 1920 x 1080 in VM environment.

Is that *while* playing a video using software rendering and not hardware accelerated? Is the VM setup to use hardware acceleration and if so what video card?

[jackkileen]

Default Settings in Gnome Boxes except for disk & memory size.

My machine...

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Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] vendor: XFX Pine
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4 ports: active: HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: ASUS VG32V res: 2560x1440 dpi: 93
    diag: 800mm (31.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (polaris10 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-76-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.3 direct render: Yes

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Graphics:
  Device-1: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card driver: qxl v: kernel ports: active: Virtual-1
    empty: Virtual-2,Virtual-3,Virtual-4 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 1b36:0100
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: N/A
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: qxl note:  X driver n/a display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: Virtual-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes

[billyswong]

I believe I read in the release notes that what you experienced is a commonly known bug for this release.

Where did you read that? I don't see anything about Thunar toolbar icon bugs on any of these pages:
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4521
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_victoria_ ... atsnew.php
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_victoria_xfce.php

For me all the icons only appear properly when using Papirus icon themes.
When I use any other theme the "Compact List View" icon does not appear and in some themes the "Open in Terminal" icon also does not appear.

Maybe you shall file a bug at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint21.2-beta/issues, and hopes Mint team can get icon themes managed by Mint cover all the icons required.

[rattkjelke]

Maybe you shall file a bug at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint21.2-beta/issues, and hopes Mint team can get icon themes managed by Mint cover all the icons required.

I was hoping somebody else can verify the problem is real.
I don't have a github account and I'm not creating one.

[jackkileen]

I was hoping somebody else can verify the problem is real.
I don't have a github account and I'm not creating one.

I just tried several different themes and icon packages and all icons including the Compact View icon are visible on the toolbar on all of them.

[billyswong]

I just tried several different themes and icon packages and all icons including the Compact View icon are visible on the toolbar on all of them.

In my test, all the Mint-X, Mint-L, Mint-Y icon sets fail the compact view icon in Mint 21.2 xfce beta live session. They are putting placeholder there.

By the way, your screenshot is extremely small and blurry. It doesn't serve as meaningful illustration. Is it a bug of postimg.cc?

[billyswong]

Maybe you shall file a bug at https://github.com/linuxmint/mint21.2-beta/issues, and hopes Mint team can get icon themes managed by Mint cover all the icons required.

I was hoping somebody else can verify the problem is real.
I don't have a github account and I'm not creating one.

Since I found Adwaita icon theme also miss that icon, I think it may count as an upstream bug. (It is missing also in GNOME and HighContrast) But you will still need to create an acccount somewhere for https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues too. Or wait till someone file this bug for you.

[jackkileen]

In my test, all the Mint-X, Mint-L, Mint-Y icon sets fail the compact view icon in Mint 21.2 xfce beta live session. They are putting placeholder there.
By the way, your screenshot is extremely small and blurry. It doesn't serve as meaningful illustration. Is it a bug of postimg.cc?

Displays properly on my PC (original image size is 1092x865).
At postimg for me, mouse pointer turns into a + sign to enlarge image there.

[billyswong]

In my test, all the Mint-X, Mint-L, Mint-Y icon sets fail the compact view icon in Mint 21.2 xfce beta live session. They are putting placeholder there.
By the way, your screenshot is extremely small and blurry. It doesn't serve as meaningful illustration. Is it a bug of postimg.cc?

Displays properly on my PC (original image size is 1092x865).
At postimg for me, mouse pointer turns into a + sign to enlarge image there.

It is blurry both from my phone and from my pc, both Firefox and Chrome/Chromium. The + sign enlarge a tiny photo in a very large but blurry photo. Even the "download original image" button is giving me the tiny thumbnail!

[rattkjelke]

In my test, all the Mint-X, Mint-L, Mint-Y icon sets fail the compact view icon in Mint 21.2 xfce beta live session. They are putting placeholder there.

Thank you. It's not just something wrong with my installation then.

[rattkjelke]

In my test, all the Mint-X, Mint-L, Mint-Y icon sets fail the compact view icon in Mint 21.2 xfce beta live session. They are putting placeholder there.

Thank you. It's not just something wrong with my installation then.

I looked at several other distros that use Xfce 4.18 and they all had the same "feature" depending on the icon theme used. This is something that Xfce overlooked or didn't even bother to test when they released the latest version of Thunar.