It is easy to navigate the filesystem using the sidebar. The Xfce desktop is very stable. New releases seem to be on a three-year cycle, although updates are provided as necessary. The current version is 4. The rock-solid nature of the Xfce desktop is very reassuring after having issues with KDE. The Xfce desktop has never crashed for me, and it has never spawned daemons that gobbled up system resources.
It just sits there and works—which is what I want. Xfce is simply elegant. In my new book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins , which will be available this fall, I talk about the many advantages of simplicity, including the fact that simplicity is one of the hallmarks of elegance. Clearly, the programmers who write and maintain Xfce and its component applications are great fans of simplicity.
This simplicity is very likely the reason that Xfce is so stable, but it also results in a clean look, a responsive interface, an easily navigable structure that feels natural, and an overall elegance that makes it a pleasure to use. The Xfce4 terminal emulator is a powerful emulator that uses tabs to allow multiple terminals in a single window, like many other terminal emulators.
This terminal emulator is simple compared to emulators like Tilix, Terminator, and Konsole, but it gets the job done. The tab names can be changed, and the tabs can be rearranged by drag and drop, using the arrow icons on the toolbar, or selecting the options on the menu bar. One thing I especially like about the tabs on the Xfce terminal emulator is that they display the name of the host to which they are connected regardless of how many other hosts are connected through to make that connection, e.
Other emulators show host2 at best. Other aspects of its function and appearance can be easily configured to suit your needs. Like other Xfce components, this terminal emulator uses very little in the way of system resources. Within its limits, Xfce is very configurable.
I found that the Settings Manager is the doorway to everything needed to configure Xfce. The individual configuration apps are separately available, but the Settings Manager collects them all into one window for ease of access.
All the important aspects of the desktop can be configured to meet my needs and preferences. Xfce has a number of individual projects that make up the whole, and not all parts of Xfce are necessarily installed by your distro.
Xfce's projects page lists the main projects, so you can find additional parts you might want to install. The items that weren't installed on my Fedora 28 workstation when I installed the Xfce group were mostly the applications at the bottom of that page. There is also a documentation page , and a wiki called Xfce Goodies Project lists other Xfce-related projects that provide applications, artwork, and plugins for Thunar and the Xfce panels.
The Xfce desktop is thin and fast with an overall elegance that makes it easy to figure out how to do things. Its lightweight construction conserves both memory and CPU cycles. This makes it ideal for older hosts with few resources to spare for a desktop. However, Xfce is flexible and powerful enough to satisfy my needs as a power user.
I've learned that changing to a new Linux desktop can take some work to configure it as I want—with all of my favorite application launchers on the panel, my preferred wallpaper, and much more. I have changed to new desktops or updates of old ones many times over the years. It takes some time and a bit of patience. I think of it like when I've moved cubicles or offices at work. Someone carries my stuff from the old office to the new one, and I connect my computer, unpack the boxes, and place their contents in appropriate locations in my new office.
Moving into the Xfce desktop was the easiest move I have ever made. Thanks for this article, David. Xfce is an old favourite - I used it with a number of lower-powered computers running lightweight Linux distros over the years. And I've even got my wife using it: her Manjaro-powered laptop used Xfce as its desktop environment and she loves it. Xfce cannot even keep up with gtk development..
Support pantheon desktop environment and elementary os ecosystem. Gayan Xfce development might be slow, but it is not "deas". You can look at the blog.
The developers are working hard and well on their way to Xfce 4. The development builds are so far along that Manjaro is switching entirely to Xfce 4. I use both xfce and KDE as daily drivers and despite my unconditioned love for xfce KDE 5. That can't be written in the same sentence as gnome. Hope that it's going to be a common path for all the systems. I like, and keep going back to Xfce often. It's also one of my fallbacks in case anything goes wrong elsewhere.
Xfce is definitely lighter than Gnome and part of it I think is because Xfce doesn't include Evolution and calendar et. Xfce also doesn't include the integration like Gnome like clicking on the clock to get your calendar and notifications. I find the Xfce desktop to be more flexible and configurable than KDE, and a lot easier to customize!
It harkens back to the days of Gnome 2 for ease and capability to customize the desktop. For example, trying to change the panel in Gnome or KDE to transparent for me so far requires downloading a theme, or extension, or roll up my sleeves and figure out the actual code.
Gnome hasn't had it this easy since they left Gnome 2! I've even had Xfce set up for a while where there were NO panels. When the system was booted up which is pretty quick regardless of the distro all it showed was the wallpaper and that's it!
Right- and Middle-click on the desktop brought up all the menus needed to open files, see everything that is open and on which desktop, etc.
I also would keybind the keyboard's "Windows" and "Lists" keys to bring up the same 2 menus. Can't do this with any desktop environment I know of! Gayan, I'm pretty sure XFCE is still alive and well, although it does occasionally have lulls in development. It was ported to GTK3 a release or two ago. I'd recommend removing the standard applications menu and replacing it with the whisker menu which is offered as a separate package. On Fedora the package name is xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin but it may vary depending on which distro you use.
Xubuntu uses the whisker menu by default. If I ever find those going, I turn them off immediately AND remove the distro packages that provide the search function if doing so doesn't take out more than you want because of dependencies. Free operating system. Portable operating system.
The C language. The Smalltalk language. The Scheme language. Windows NT. Single Unix Specification. The Unix Standard. Unix Specification license. The Unix Specs. Time is Up! Join the discussion. Anonymous February 26, Good post. I really love XFCE, it is depressing that the development is slow down. Anonymous February 27, Anonymous Don't worry, GTK's release model is so incredibly.
After their announcements regarding GTK4, it would be a lot more stable and mature than GTK3 when it gets released though. KWW February 27, The nice thing about Xfce is that it stays in the background, and does what you tell it to do, when you tell it to do it.
The developers of the Gnome and KDE behemoths had better take note - but they won't. Anonymous February 28, KWW The nice thing about Xfce is that it stays in the. Why take notes from a failing project? Gnome and KDE have no problems attracting contributors. They join Gnome or KDE because they like what these projects have to offer. Anonymous Why take notes from a failing project? Gnome and K.
You see, the Gnome and Kde ppl see things upside down. Stability is the only thing a DE can be successful about, "shiny new sh1t" is a failure by definition, and a surprising lot of people likes shiny, new sh1t. This article is a bit unfair on many levels. First, Xfce has rarely released a completed product all at once such as 4.
The entire 4. This seems odd to those who come from the dinosaur school of releases which I was part of and expect a complete set of packages on a certain date, but it's not that unusual for GPL projects that abide by the "release when ready" school of thought. Since most distros provide two or more versions of GTK and other libraries, this has never been a real issue, since the independent nature of Xfce projects ensures that you can run pieces of it based on older versions and other pieces of it that are based upon newer versions without issue.
Porting to GTK3 isn't holding it back, as the pieces are independent enough to stand on their own. On a side note, I feel a bit bad for the person who commented without understanding that Gtk3 and Gnome3 are two different things. Second, it's a desktop geared around a paradigm that has existed for 20 years, so whining about a slow update cycle is a bit moronic.
If it works well, you don't need to "reinvent" it every few months. Again, that mentality is based on the long-extinct "box store" vision of software development championed by companies which make a nice side profit from training people, like Microsoft, which changed features and confused their users, just to put out another cash cow. Xfce isn't meant to be a cutting-edge DE, it's meant to be a good balance between updated features and a traditional DE. Third, if you're that hungry for the newest version, Xfce is easy enough to obtain and compile.
After 84 yea This time a shorter one, since most of my work has been on finishing the features that I talked about last week and implementing support for shared thumbnail repositories as specified in freedesktop.
At last, the time has come for Thunar to be one of the first, if not the first, file managers that support shared thumbnail repositories. Let me explain.
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