Welcome back! Since I became maintainer of xfce4-terminal I've worked on replacing deprecated parts of the codebase, closing old bugs and merging Merge Requests which have been sitting around for a while.
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[3] http://users.uoa.gr/~sdi1800073/sources/xfce_blog07.html