Xubuntu 20.04 Release Notes

Welcome to the Xubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” release notes!

Xubuntu 20.04 was released on Thursday, April 23, 2020 and will be supported for three years until Saturday, April 29, 2023. For general information and the latest updates for Xubuntu 20.04, check out the release page on xubuntu.org.

• Known Issues
• Ubuntu Common Release Notes
• Screenshots
• Major Updates
• Removals
• Updates
• Changelogs

• System doesn't boot after installation - Legacy mode / 2 disks (1847898)
• grub-installer chooses which drive to install to with no user input (964331)

• AMD Graphics: Block staircase display with side-by-side monitors of different pixel widths (1873895, Fixed upstream, SRU expected for 20.04.1)
• VNC (tightvncserver): Window decorations are not displayed (1860921, Fixed upstream, SRU expected for 20.04.1)

• GNOME Font Viewer: Crashes in the live environment (1845362)
• Xfce Pulseaudio Plugin: Multiple notifications displayed if multiple Pulseaudio plugins added to panel (1769775)
• Xfce Screensaver: Password required twice when switching users (1874178)
• Xfce Settings Daemon: Sometimes does not run after logging in, resulting in appearance and configuration issues (1870641)

The main Ubuntu Release Notes covers both many of the other packages we carry and more issues common to every Ubuntu flavor.

• Installation (bluesabre.org)
• Desktop Applications (bluesabre.org)

Xubuntu hosted a community wallpaper contest from February 28 through March 13, 2020. 6 winners were selected from a total 237 submissions. The selection was based on a team vote. Thank you to everyone for your submissions!

Xubuntu 20.04 ships with a brand new optional theme, Greybird-dark. To switch from the default Greybird to Greybird-dark, open your Settings Manager and:

• Click “Appearance”. Select “Greybird-dark”.
• Click “All Settings”.
• Click “Window Manager”. Select “Greybird-dark”.

Our desktop themes Greybird, Greybird-dark, and elementary-xfce are now included in the gtk-common-themes snap. When using any of these themes, you can expect snap packages to fit in perfectly with the rest of your desktop. Snaps work out of the box on Xubuntu, and can be installed with the included GNOME Software.

Greybird and Greybird-dark are available to install on Flathub! If you use Flatpaks on your system, you can install our themes and enjoy a consistent desktop experience with the following commands.

flatpak install org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Greybird
flatpak install org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Greybird-dark

With Python 2 now officially End of Life as of January 1, 2020, Ubuntu and its various flavors are no longer shipping Python 2. Xubuntu includes only Python 3.8 as of 20.04.

apt-offline is no longer included in Xubuntu 20.04. Until February, it depended on Python 2 and was thus removed from the Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio seeds.

pidgin-libnotify is no longer included in the Ubuntu repositories and has thus been removed from Xubuntu.

Significant package and version updates. For full package changelogs, see the Changelogs section below.

• GTK / GNOME 3.36
• MATE 1.24
• Xfce 4.14

• Greybird 3.22.12
• Numi: 2.6.7
• elementary-xfce 0.15

• Catfish 1.4.13
• Gigolo 0.5.1
• Parole Media Player 1.0.5
• Thunar File Manager 1.8.14
• Xfburn 0.6.2
• Xfce Desktop 4.14.2
• Xfce Dictionary 0.8.3
• Xfce Panel 4.14.3
• Xfce Panel Profiles 1.0.10
• Xfce Power Manager 1.6.6
• Xfce PulseAudio Plugin 0.4.3
• Xfce Screensaver 1.9.7
• Xfce Settings 4.14.3
• Xfce StatusNotifier Plugin 0.2.2
• Xfce Task Manager 1.2.3
• Xfce Terminal 0.8.9
• Xfce Weather Plugin 0.10.1
• Xfce Whisker Menu Plugin 2.4.3
• Xfce Window Manager 4.14.1

• Atril 1.24.0
• Engrampa 1.24.0
• MATE Calculator 1.24.0

• GNOME Mines 3.36.0
• GNOME Software 3.36.0
• GNOME Sudoku 3.36.0
• Simple Scan 3.36.0

• Blueman 2.1.2
• Firefox 75.0
• GIMP 2.10.18
• LibreOffice 6.4.2
• PulseAudio Volume Control 4.0
• SGT Puzzles 20191231.79a5378-3 (and Launcher 0.2.5)
• Thunderbird 68.7.0

• apturl (changelog)
• atril (changelog)
• blueman (changelog)
• elementary-xfce (changelog)
• engrampa (changelog)
• gimp (changelog)
• gtk2-engines-xfce (changelog)
• lightdm-gtk-greeter (changelog)
• lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings (changelog)
• mate-calc (changelog)
• menulibre (changelog)
• mugshot (changelog)
• pavucontrol (changelog)
• sgt-launcher (changelog)
• shimmer-themes (changelog)
• xubuntu-artwork (changelog)
• xubuntu-core (changelog)
• xubuntu-default-settings (changelog)
• xubuntu-desktop (changelog)
• xubuntu-docs (changelog)
• xubuntu-meta (changelog)
• xubuntu-wallpapers (changelog)

• exo (changelog)
• libxfce4ui (changelog)
• libxfce4util (changelog)
• thunar (changelog)
• thunar-volman (changelog)
• tumbler (changelog)
• xfce4-appfinder (changelog)
• xfce4-panel (changelog)
• xfce4-panel-profiles (changelog)
• xfce4-power-manager (changelog)
• xfce4-session (changelog)
• xfce4-settings (changelog)
• xfconf (changelog)
• xfdesktop4 (changelog)
• xfwm4 (changelog)

• catfish (changelog)
• mousepad (changelog)
• parole (changelog)
• ristretto (changelog)
• xfburn (changelog)
• xfce4-notifyd (changelog)
• xfce4-screensaver (changelog)
• xfce4-screenshooter (changelog)
• xfce4-taskmanager (changelog)
• xfce4-terminal (changelog)

• xfce4-cpugraph-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-dict (changelog)
• xfce4-indicator-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-mailwatch-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-netload-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-notes-plugin (changelog
• xfce4-places-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-systemload-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-verve-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-weather-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (changelog)
• xfce4-xkb-plugin (changelog)

• thunar-archive-plugin (changelog)
• thunar-media-tags-plugin (changelog)