XFce Desktop 4 Released 261
BladeMelbourne writes "After thorough RC testing, version 4.0 of my favourite 'lite' desktop environment has been released. Sporting purty eye candy, XFce is leaps and bounds ahead of the legacy XFce 3.8.18 release, whilst retaining it's performance.
Release notes are available, as well as binary and source packages. Bring that PII back to life!" While it may not have all the bells and whistles, it's pretty clean looking.
lighter is better (Score:5, Informative)
Try comparing compile times of the kernel between TWM and KDE3, no surprise which will win.
Re:Does it support a scrolling viewport? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Any experience with this on a slow computer ? (Score:5, Informative)
I use it. Right now, I'm using it on a dual 450MHz Xeon machine with 1GB of RAM, and it's just snappy. At home, I've run it on a 133MHz 486 with 32MB of RAM, and it's just snappy. At work, I run it on 2.0GHz P-4s with 512MB of RAM, and it's snappier. :)
In short, as long as you can run X, you can run XFce. I really like it because of its extensible and easy configuration (an uncommon combination, unfortunately), in addition to its low memory and CPU footprint.
Actually... (Score:3, Informative)
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curious@clyde x11-wm$ emerge -s xfce4-base
Searching...
[ Results for search key : xfce4-base ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* xfce-base/xfce4-base
Latest version available: 4.0.0
Latest version installed: 3.99.4
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I'll probably be excommunicated from the Gentoo community now for being 0.00.6 of a release behind.
Warning to RedHat Users (Score:5, Informative)
The error message was: "The theme for the graphical greeter is corrupt. It does not contain definition for the username/password entry element." I clicked OK several times, but the error message stayed there.
If you run into troubles, revert to an older package like gtk2-2.2.2-0.ximian.6.3.i386.rpm or gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm
Dont play with
Mike
Screenshots (Score:5, Informative)
XFce screens [members.shaw.ca]
Re:Great for Linux, but bad for MS (Score:3, Informative)
ShellFront [shellfront.org] and Desktopian [desktopian.org] are great places to start.
Re: Light desktop (Score:5, Informative)
It works just fine under XP as a shell. If you want to test it without replacing your current shell, just launch it from the command line with the -desktop option.
Re:Great for Linux, but bad for MS (Score:5, Informative)
There are a few:
There's also progman.exe*, shipped with windows. I've heard tell of a "winfile" also supposedly built in, but I don't know anything about that.
I've tried a few of these, but some of them (Blackbox) seemed to take more resources than Explorer! Another caveat, the ports of *nix windows managers retain the *nix settings system, so setting them up can be a pain if you don't have experience with them.
*Yes, that is progman of Win16 fame.
xfce with fvwm (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Gentoo Doesn't have it yet... Damn (Score:2, Informative)
s0be
Re:Not a desktop (Score:5, Informative)
someone else) who doesn't know much about XFCE. XFCE is not just a
window manager, but a fully integrated, mouse-configurable desktop
including wm, panel (with panel applets), taskbar, pager and graphical
file manager (including Samba browsing support), extensive drag'n'drop
capabilities including for printing, central configuration menus
including sound and mouse setup. It's based on Gtk 2.x and
freedesktop.org standards (and thus with a high degree especially of
Gnome and KDE interoperability).
Think of XFCE as a desktop environment without the redundant middleware
layers (DCOP/KParts/arts etc. in KDE, Corba/Bonobo/esd/Gconf etc.i in
Gnome) that make both KDE and Gnome bloated and slow, and which are
hardly used by third party applications outside main Gnome and KDE
distributions at all.
So it amazes me that the previous commentator thinks XFCE is "not a
desktop". On the contrary, XFCE is a desktop done architecturally right,
similar to, for example, the desktops of AmigaOS, RiscOS, Macintosh
Classic and BeOS. While both the XFCE panel (with its legacy to the user
interface of the CDE panel) and new file manager could still need some
usability improvement, the architectural foundation is excellent.
XFCE is also the proof that a X11- and GNU/Linux-/BSD-based desktop
computer can be as fast and efficient as one would normally expect from
a Unix-like system. In other words, it's as fast as a basic window
manager setup with Window Maker/icewm/fvwm2 while providing a fully
integrated desktop that doesn't require users to run the shell or edit
configuration files.
(A prominent XFCE user and supporter is, btw., Alan Cox.)
Re:Does it support a scrolling viewport? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Great for Linux, but bad for MS (Score:1, Informative)
Oh, you mean how just on a default Windows XP/Office XP desktop there are 4 different kinds of scrollbars, and three different kinds of toolbars? The idea that the MS UI is more standardised than the linux GUI is ridiculous. Every new version of office introduces it's own new toolkit, often breaking existing UI guidelines.
Re:Great for Linux, but bad for MS (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I own a P I... (Score:3, Informative)
XFCE is great (Score:3, Informative)
"bing that PII back to life" (Score:1, Informative)