XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 83
b100dian points out yesterday's release of XFCE 4.4, writing "If you have already followed the release candidates, you know that XFCE is really evolving. Besides adding desktop icons, introducing Thunar (in lieu of xffm) and MousePad, applications that are as simple as they are effective, and Terminal, which has built-in support for desktop composition (supported by the window manager out-of-the-box), it also introduced (finally!) a shortcut for the pop-up menu (you can see in the tour that Ctrl-Esc is bound to this menu). Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever:)" I've been using Thunar a lot lately (mostly under Gnome) because the renaming feature is powerful but reasonably intuitive -- very handy for cleaning up digicam photo names.
Thunar... (Score:5, Informative)
Although the link is incredibly informative, here's more info about Thunar [foo-projects.org].
"Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment..." (Score:4, Informative)
The text editor (mousepad) is very nice, simply that, an easy to use text editor (without
Recently I had to "downgrade" a notebook to only 256 MB and decided to install Xubuntu. It runs really fine and does whatever I need it to do.
Re:XFCE - whazzat?? (Score:3, Informative)
Desktop environment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment [wikipedia.org]
But unlike Gnome and KDE, XFCE tries to be lighter than those 2 GUI's.
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Informative)
Autostart was in anyway. There is a nice GUI to manage it now, nothing more, nothing less.
Re:Biased Drivel (Score:4, Informative)
XFCE isn't actually a window manager. It includes a window manager, but it's a desktop environment. There's a difference. XFCE adds features that you simply won't see in any of the ones you mentionned, because they *aren't* dekstop environments.
TFA isn't biased, it's just ignorant.
Re:Lightest? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Thunar... lacks SMB/NFS/Network support (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Does it to automagic USBKeys yet? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Lightest? (Score:3, Informative)