XFCE: Pompous (amd64 Beta) Release News

[machinebacon]

The offensive group at the BBQ is arrogantly presenting "Pompous", an XFCE4.10 desktop featuring a lot of GUI goodness for all computing needs.

This is the list of installed apps:

• Chromium 28 Web Browser
• Sylhpeed Mail Client
• GIMP 2.9
• Inkscape 0.49
• Fotoxx
• Mirage
• Musique Music Player
• VLC Media Player
• Minitube Youtube Frontend
• Pidgin Instant Messenger
• Xara LX Vector GFX
• Scribus DTP
• Zim Desktop Wiki
• Synergy Mouse Sharing
• Geany IDE
• FTE Editor
• Catfish Desktop Search
• Kino Video Editor
• Filezilla FTP Client
• Xournal PDF Editor
• Evince PDF Viewer
• Emacs24 IDE
• no CLI tools this time, but all BBQ tools provided

File Size: 689 MB

Download location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxb ... CE%20Base/

Beta? Yes, so report bugs if you find them.

[bones]

And it still fits on a CD! Hey, it's got the Adobe Replacement Suite, too. :D

[wuxmedia]

this looks really nice, turned out my own xfce install, mimics your XFCE64.
*whispers* 32 bit in the pipeline ?

[machinebacon]

^ Whispers back: yesh, but with Skype on board ;)

[wuxmedia]

^ you know me well 8) excellent.

[bones]

Ah, looks like the male counterpart to Wifey. I will download and run this over the weekend, perhaps rekindle some love for Xfce.

[machinebacon]

^ Yep, originally it was planned to be "Hubby", but thanks to .... well, you know.

[ivanovnegro]

Pompompom-pompompom-pom.

[wuxmedia]

no probs - not done much with it.

[hinto]

Do you ever sleep? ;)
-Hinto

[dkeg]

Nice one Jules. Test ran the live tonight while the wife went out for dog and cat food. It was good. Also see the numix dark theme in there, cool! Good job on it.

[bones]

Testing Pompous, I like it. Nice, clean Xfce setup. Idles at about 180MB.

[machinebacon]

Thanks Drew,
that's your Dark version, hehe. I set Numix Light as default because Ambiance/Radiance causes some apps to segfault (though it shall be compatible)
In the past you watched porn when the sife went out for dog food, but recently... well :) Nothing is sexier than discovering a new spin :)

Thanks Bone(r)s,
sure we can squeeze some RAM out of her. Check "bbqblame" to see if you want to get rid of some services. Also, there's the weather applet, you can remove it if no need.

[bones]

I think 180MB is entirely reasonable for a full-featured Xfce 64-bit setup, btw. Sure, I could squeeze more out of it, but it's pretty sweet just the way it is.

[machinebacon]

It's not, it's not :) The number of installed packages shall not have any impact on the RAM usage after boot, so I'd recommend looking into what eats up RAM. I suppose it's the udisks2/upower/systemd trilogy that weighs heavy, although it should actually replace some stuff under the hood (policykit springs to mind). Maybe upgrading to experimental systemd is an idea - don't do it if you don't dare to. If I have time I try to break her.

[wayne]

just tried..

there seems to be no lightdm? or other login manager?
so each time I need to login from console?

still playing with it..

[machinebacon]

Correct, no bloated Display Manager needed anymore.
You can make autologin work - check the forums "HOWTO" section, there's a guide written by Pidsley on "autologin to console and start X"
It's a matter of 2 commands, copy-paste, nothing serious.

[wuxmedia]

here is the post btw; i'm following it for my 'bloat' install
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=510
right i've spammed the forums enough.

[vic]

With a name like Pompous I just had to check it out. Live from usb, no problems, just want to say that this a is very beautiful release, congratulations grillmeister, sober, nice and clean desktop. For anyone who wants a full blown de from the start this is a winner:)

[wayne]

here is the post btw; i'm following it for my 'bloat' install
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=510
right i've spammed the forums enough.

wuxmedia, thanks for the link.

however, on reboot I got stuck on this line display on screen

[ 14.699039] ALSA hda_intel.c:997 hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x00070503

it just hang up there.
once I hit <enter> it proceeds and allows me to login, startx..

after successfully login and get on the forum, I checked dmesg and these are the last two lines

[ 14.699039] ALSA hda_intel.c:997 hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x00070503
[ 15.231813] input: HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.2/sound/card1/input13

help!


BTW, it is pretty!
ram usage reading from htop: 174M.
and it boots up a few computers!! leaving one that is forever kernel panic, may be just kernel 3.9.8 issue.
some well known distros could not boot a few of my old computers!