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Xubuntu 22.04 LTS Releases with Updated Theme, Whisker Menu 2.7.1, and Other Upgrades
Xubuntu 22.04 features new wallpapers, theme refreshments, and other enhancements.
Xubuntu is one of the most loved Ubuntu flavours featuring the Xfce desktop environment.
If you were looking to install the latest Long-Term release Ubuntu-based distro that
is light on system resources, Xubuntu 22.04 should be a good pick.
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS includes a visual refresh and some package updates.
Here, I shall highlight the key changes with this release.
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS: What’s New?
Xubuntu 22.04 comes packed with new wallpapers, app upgrades, and more.
Undoubtedly, it is a Long-Term Release version.
So, you can expect updates for Xubuntu 22.04 until 2025, i.e., three-year support, which
is usual for official Ubuntu flavours.
Some of the significant refinements include:
Theme Updates
Greybird, the default theme for Xubuntu has introduced initial support for GTK 4 to blend
in well with modern GTK applications.
It also brings back the Accessibility and Compact window manager themes.
The elementary-xfce theme adds new icons and improves on the existing ones for a cleaner
Xubuntu desktop experience.
New Wallpapers Xubuntu features new default wallpapers along
with six new additions from the community wallpaper contest.
The new collection looks absolutely lovely.
Application Stack Updates You should notice newer GNOME 42 applications,
GTK 3.24.33, and other subsystem updates like NetworkManager 1.36, Mesa 22, PulseAudio 16,
etc.
Xfce App Updates
A range of Xfce applications have been updated with Xubuntu 22.04, some of the major ones
include:
Mousepad 0.5.8: A text editor with more features with support for session backup/restore, plugin
support, and new plugins.
Ristretto 0.12.2: An image viewer with improved thumbnail support and performance improvements
Whisker Menu Plugin 2.7.1: More customization options
Firefox Snap Just like Ubuntu 22.04, Xubuntu 22.04 includes
Firefox as a snap package.
The snap package can be a secure experience with sandboxing and will get quicker updates
by Mozilla.
Other Improvements You should expect numerous bug fixes and performance
improvements along with the essential enhancements.
There are more package updates that include:
Thunderbird 91 LibreOffice 7.3.2
Blueman 2.2.4 GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer 41.0
MATE Calculator 1.26.0 Thunar plugins
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Xubuntu 22.04, the latest version of the Ubuntu's popular subproject which features the Xfce
desktop, has been released: "The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release
of Xubuntu 22.04.
Xubuntu 22.04, code-named 'Jammy Jellyfish', is a long-term support (LTS) release and will
be supported for three years, until 2025.
The Xubuntu and Xfce development teams have made great strides in usability, expanded
features and additional applications in the last two years.
Users coming from 20.04 will be delighted with improvements found in Xfce 4.16 and our
expanded application set.
21.10 users will appreciate the added stability that comes from the numerous maintenance releases
that landed this cycle.
Highlights: Mousepad 0.5.8, our text editor, broadens its feature set with the addition
of session backup and restore, plugin support and a new gspell plugin; Ristretto 0.12.2,
the versatile image viewer, improves thumbnail support and features numerous performance
improvements; Whisker Menu Plugin 2.7.1 expands customization options with several new preferences
and CSS classes for theme developers.
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Xubuntu 22.04 LTS – New Features and Release Details
A list of new features in Xubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) and additional information
about the release.
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS – New Features Xubuntu 22.04 LTS is powered by Linux Kernel
5.15 and underlying packages from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
In addition to that, the default desktop environment version is Xfce 4.16.
The Xfce desktop environment did not see any significant release since its release in Dec
2020.
Even so the Xfce desktop version 4.16 remained as the Xubuntu 21.10 (last release), and the
desktop components and native applications get some improvements and bug fixes.
Perhaps the vital work in this release is the initial support for GTK4 and libhandy
in the Greybird theme (via version 3.23.1).
That means the GTK4 apps from the GNOME ecosystem look good in Xubuntu with their theme.
Application Updates The default file manager Thunar 4.16.10 adds
several performance improvements, including regression fixes, translation updates and
under the hood changes.
Although while scanning the changelog, I could not find anything substantial to report which
is visible to the user.
But if you are interested, you can read the NEWS file in detail
In fact, Thunar is now under development with Xfce 4.17, which contains some exciting changes.
But unfortunately, we all need to wait for that in the short term release because it’s
too early to feature those in a long term version.
Apart from that, Xfce Terminal remains in 0.8.10 in this release.
Similar to Thunar, Xfce Terminal 1.0.0 major updates won’t be available in this LTS release.
Besides these two, other desktop components remain with their last stable version with
Xfce Panel 4.16.3, Xfce window manager 4.16.1 and Xfce Desktop 4.16.
It is worth mentioning that Xfce is still working on the GTK4 transition, and not much
clarity is available on the schedule.
Furthermore, the native applications see their version bumped to the latest stable iteration.
But one significant change is Firefox executable is now a Snap version in Xubuntu 22.04 following
Ubuntu.
So, ideally, users would not feel any difference but may face some issues with extensions and
other utilities due to its sandbox nature.
In addition to that, Xubuntu 22.04 expects a few nice wallpapers from the community contest,
including a default one.
The results are pending.
However, you can find out some exciting submissions
Summary and Download To sum up, major core frameworks, apps and
their versions are down below.
GNOME 42 GTK 3.24.32
MATE 1.26 Xfce 4.16
Firefox 99 Thunderbird 91.8
Atril Document Viewer 1.26 Engrampa Archive Manager 1.26
Ristretto Image Viewer 0.12.2 LibreOffice 7.3.x
Catfish 4.16.3 Mousepad 0.5.8
Finally, to download the official ISO image of Xubuntu 22.04
You can try to install on a virtual machine or try it in a physical system.
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