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Xubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn has been released. No big news to report, but here's some changes/highlights: New Xfce Power Manager plugin is added to the panel Items in the newly themed alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse pkexec instead of gksu XChat removed and Inxi added to default installed applications. Get it here. You can download the new Xubuntu via Torrent or HTTP. If possible choose Torrent to not overload the servers. References Xubuntu 14.10 released! | Xubuntu.org

Problem When copying or moving files to a NTFS partition an annoying error message about setting permissions is shown. The files are still copied/moved. Solution This can be easily fixed by adding uid=1000 to your mounting options in /etc/fstab . Open fstab with root permissions: sudo mousepad /etc/fstab (replace mousepad with the command for your favorite text editor). Find the line corresponding to your NTFS partition (see example bellow for help). Add uid=1000 after umask=007 , use commas (again see example). Example How it looks by default: # /media/Data was on /dev/sdb6 during installation UUID=702907667255DAFB /media/Data ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 After adding uid=1000 : # /media/Data was on /dev/sdb6 during installation UUID=702907667255DAFB /media/Data ntfs defaults umask=007, uid=1000 ,gid=46 0 0

Problem Thunar takes several seconds to open when it's run for the first time on the session. Solution Open a terminal window and run this command: sudo sed -i 's/AutoMount=true/AutoMount=false/' /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/network.mount References [SOLVED] Thunar slow to start under xfce 4.10