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Tag : xfce

Build GIT version of Xfce4

This is a little build script for Xfce4 to fetch and compile the sources from GIT (master). Short instructions:

You should start with an empty directory, where you put this script. Edit the script and modify the list of packages or modules, you want to install.

Then run the script with:

./xfce4-build.sh init

this fetches the sources from the Xfce GIT server and:

./xfce4-build.sh build

configures, builds and installs the sources. For more information read the script (it's really simple). The script can be downloaded at http://files.uvena.de/xfce4-build.sh.

Gigolo

Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount a remote filesystem and manage bookmarks of such.

It is part of the Xfce Goodies project and also hosted on the Xfce servers though it doesn't have any hard Xfce dependencies and can be used on other desktop environments as well. The only hard dependency is GTK2 (2.12 or newer).

Screenshot of Gigolo

More information and the source code for download can be found at http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/.

Xfce4 Dict - The Xfce4 Dictionary

This program allows you to search different kinds of dictionary services for words or phrases and shows you the result. Currently you can query a "Dict" server(RFC 2229), any online dictionary service by opening a web browser or search for words using a spell check program like aspell, ispell or enchant.

xfce4-dict contains a stand-alone application called xfce4-dict and a panel plugin for the Xfce panel.

Screenshot of xfce4-dict

For more information, please see the project's website http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict.