The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.10!
The release is available for download by torrents and direct downloads from
As the main server will be very busy in the first days after the release, we recommend using the Torrents wherever possible.
For support with the release, navigate to Help & Support for a complete list of methods to get help.
Highlights and Known Issues
To celebrate the 14.10 codename “Utopic Unicorn” and to demonstrate the easy customisability of Xubuntu, highlight colors have been turned pink for this release. You can easily revert this change by using the theme configuration application (gtk-theme-config) under the Settings Manager; simply turn Custom Highlight Colors “Off” and click “Apply”. Of course, if you wish, you can change the highlight color to something you like better than the default blue!
Starting with Xubuntu 14.10, you should use pkexec instead of gksudo for running graphical applications with root access from the terminal for improved security. The Xubuntu team has prepared and shipped the necessary pkexec policy files for all default applications in the Xubuntu installation that we deemed necessary.
Please note that changes in the default configuration affect all users who haven’t changed the default configuration. Read more about the default configuration changes in the release notes.
Highlights
New Xfce Power Manager plugin is added to the panel Note: Upgraders from Trusty will not see the new xfce4-power-manager panel plugin by default, but instead stick to indicator-power. This can easily be resolved by uninstalling indicator-power and adding the “Power Manager Plugin” to the panel.
Items in the newly themed alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse
The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.10 Beta 2. This is the final beta towards the release in October. Before this beta we have landed various of enhancements and some new features. Now it’s time to start polishing the last edges and improve the stability. The Beta 2 release is available for download by torrents and direct downloads fromhttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/utopic/beta-2/
Highlights and known issues
To celebrate the 14.10 codename “Utopic Unicorn” and to demonstrate the easy customisability of Xubuntu, highlight colors have been turned pink for this release. You can easily revert this change by using the theme configuration application (gtk-theme-config) under the Settings Manager; simply turn Custom Highlight Colors “Off” and click “Apply”. Of course, if you wish, you can change the highlight color to something you like better than the default blue!
The Xubuntu team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.10 Beta 1. This is the first beta towards the final release in October. Before this beta we have landed various of enhancements and some new features. Now it’s time to start polishing the last edges and improve the stability.
The first beta release also marks the end of the period to land new features in the form of Ubuntu Feature Freeze. This means any new updates to packages should be bug fixes only, the Xubuntu team is committed to fixing as many of the bugs as possible before the final release.
Inxi, a tool to gather system information, is now included
To allow users to use pkexec for selected applications instead of gksu(do), appropriate profiles are now included for Thunar and Mousepad
The display dialog has been updated, multiple dispays can now be arranged by drag and drop
The power manager can now control the keyboard-backlight and features a new panel plugin, which shows the battery’s status, other connected devices with batteries and controls the display’s backlight brightness
The themes now support Gtk3.12
The alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse to select a window
Xubuntu minimal install available - information on installation and testing will follow shortly.
Bug fixes
Setting-related menu items earlier available only under Settings manager are now shown and searchable in Whiskermenu (1310264)
Presentation mode in Xfce4 power manager is now working (1193716)
apt-offline is now functional, previously “Something is wrong with the apt system” (1357217)
Known Issues
Video corruption when booting a virtual livesession (1357702)
Failure to configure wifi in live-session (1351590)
New application versions in the Xubuntu packageset
Catfish 1.2.1
Xfwm4 4.11.2
Updates to xfdesktop4 (4.11.7), xfce4-panel (4.11.1), login screen (lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.9.0)
xfce4-appfinder (4.11.0)
xfce4-notifyd (0.2.4-3)
xfce4-settings (4.11.3)
xfce4-power-manager (1.3.2)
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (1.4.0)
Light-locker-settings (1.4.0)
Menulibre (2.0.5)
Mugshot (0.2.4)
Other changes
XChat is removed from the default installation; we recommend trying the Pidgin IRC feature if you need to connect sporadically. Otherwise, if you prefer XChat, it’s still available for installation in the repositories.
inxi is a full featured system information script that will detect information about hardware specifications, including but not limited to vendor details, CPU info, graphic and sound cards. Most importantly, it will output everything in a easy to read format and it can also be used on irc clients like irssi, weechat or xchat.
How to use inxi?
The general use of inxi is inxi -<color> -<option>. inxi output is colored and to change the color for better visibility use the c option followed by a number between 0-32.
System information
inxi -b and inxi -F
The b option output basic system information, while the F option will output full system information.
Hard drive details
inxi -D
Outputs information on your hard drives, like make, model and size
Hard drive partitions
inxi -p
Outputs information about all mounted partitions, mount points and space usage
Networking
inxi -n and inxi -ni
Outputs information about the details of the network interfaces and configuration. When the i option is used with n, Inxi will output IP address details (for both WAN and LAN).
Hardware
inxi -AG and inxi -h
The A and G options output information about the audio and graphics hardware respectively. You usually want to use them together. The h option outputs you the full list of options you can use to get even more information about your hardware.
Using inxi in IRC clients
Xchat, irssi and most other clients
/exec -o inxi -<option> | pastebinit
The -o option shows the output to the channel. Without it, only the user will see the output.
Weechat
/shell -o inxi -<option> | pastebinitNote: For weechat to run external scripts like inxi, shell.py has to be installed.
Using inxi -c0 within a IRC client environment is highly advisable because colored output doesn’t work in pastebins.
If you experienced problems with logging into your session after suspending your laptop by closing the lid (and only this exact scenario!), your days of worry should be over now. Many users have commented on the respective bugreport, many of whom experienced different issues with suspending. This made the issue very difficult to pinpoint in the beginning for us technical folk and confusing for users too.
Sean Davis, Technical Lead of Xubuntu, put together the pieces we collected after identifying the issue and the fix landed in the 14.04.1 and 14.10 Beta 1 releases. This means that the problem is fixed for
New installs of Xubuntu 14.04.1 or Xubuntu 14.10 Beta 1
New users created with xubuntu-default-settings 14.04.5
All those of you who have been running Trusty since its release have to toggle a setting in order to fix the issue for existing user-accounts:
Open Light Locker Settings from the Settings Manager
Turn “Enable Light Locker” Off. Click “Apply”.
Turn “Enable Light Locker” On. Click “Apply”.
These steps have to followed manually because we never overwrite existing user settings. Obviously, if you previously had disabled Light Locker, the last step is sufficient.
