Xubuntu 14.10 is released

Xubuntu is an Ubuntu flavor which uses Xfce, a fast, light desktop environment.

Changes in Xubuntu 14.10:

the display dialog has been updated and it now allows arranging multiple displays by drag and drop;
the Xfce power manager can now control the keyboard-backlight and features a new panel plugin, which shows the battery status, other connected devices with batteries and controls the display backlight brightness;
Setting-related menu items earlier available only under Settings manager are now shown and searchable in Whisker Menu;
the alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse to select a window;
updated GTK themes with various changes, including GTK 3.12 support;
changed desktop icon size to 48px, desktop tooltip size to 64px;
the number of desktops was reduced to 1 by default, but this can easily be changed (Settings > Workspaces);
saner defaults for DPMS timeouts;
enabled lock-screen on suspend and hibernate;
Light Locker is enabled and will lock on suspend, but not auto-locking after being idle;
to allow users to use pkexec instead of gksu(do), appropriate profiles are now included for Thunar and Mousepad;
enabled clutter as default videosink in Parole;
updated panel layout for login screen;
enabled minimize and maximize on GtkHeaderbars;
XChat is no longer included by default;
Inxi, a tool to gather system information, is now included by default.

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

Boot, installation and post-install

The amd64 (Intel x86 64bit) images specifically targeted at Apple hardware (amd64+mac) are no longer produced. Most Apple computers are now capable of booting the amd64 image directly using the EFI (not legacy) boot method so long as their firmware is up to date. If for some reason your hardware doesn't boot properly using the amd64 image, make sure you don't have a pending EFI update and if that still doesn't work, then simply use the i386 (32bit) image instead.
Due to changes in syslinux, it is not currently possible to use usb-creator from 14.04 and earlier releases to write USB images for 14.10; we believe that it is also not possible to use usb-creator from a 14.10 system to write USB images for earlier releases. For now the workaround is to use a matching release of Ubuntu to write the images, but we intend to issue updates soon to work around this incompatibility. 1325801
Machines with ATI/AMD video cards may be getting blank or entirely turned off screen at boot. The screen will switch on when the X server starts. If you need it to turn on prior to that, for example to unlock an encrypted harddisk hitting ESC twice should reset the video card to a working state.

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