Re: thunar, xfce etc

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:00:19PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West on 24/09/07 17:28, wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:15:55PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>> I use xfce and it has a horrible bug in thunar, its gui file manager,
>>> which crops up every now and again and freezes the gui for five minutes.
>>>
>>> I finally decided to try to get a fix or something and I see that the
>>> thunar version provided by the etch debian packaging repository is
>>> 0.4.0rc1. The thunar people brought out 0.8.0 back in January. I'm
>>> running etch.
>>>
>>> On the thunar website there's just source code download available. I can
>>> see http://alioth.debian.org/ where there appears to be a project that
>>> might be it but the site is so minimalist, I can't find more! Must be
>>> going code blind.
>>>
>>> Where is it?
>> what exactly are you after here? Sid currently has thunar
>> 0.8.something, if that helps.
>
> Hmm. Must be nice. But I'm on etch. Is there no easy way (using debian
> packaging) to get an upgrade to Thunar without moving from etch to sid?

backports.debian.org

or pull the source from sid and build the package on etch. probably not a big deal and there are gobs of tutorials on how to do it so that you generate your own .deb and install it using the regular tools

A

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