Saturday, January 29, 2005

Xfce - Not too big, not too small



Tomorrow I will try to use it on a regular basis on my Ubuntu box.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LowEndSystemSupport/view?searchterm=xfce

More on Xfce (abstract from xfce.org):
Xfce 4.2 is the first desktop environment to ship with an easy-to-use and platform-independent graphical installation wizard, which takes care of compiling and installing both Xfce and any contributed packages on your computer. Visit the os-cillation installer website for download links and instructions.
The new Xfce desktop, while still being lightweight and easy to install, offers several new and awaited features in comparison with its previous 4.0 stable release like a brand new session manager, keyboard shortcuts, a graphical desktop menu editor, multihead support (Xinerama and Multi-Screen mode), Kiosk Mode support (to lock down Xfce in cooporative environments), optional support for icons in the desktop menu, a desktop menu plugin for the panel, CUPS and BSD-LPR printing support, a new icon theme, and various other small enhancements. Moreover, Xfce 4.2 provides bleeding-edge features, like a compositing manager for xfwm4 (a manager for the new X.org Composite extension, which brings true transparency to the Xfce Desktop) and support for the XDG base directory specification (see this page for an explanation of the new file locations). A complete list of changes between Xfce 4.0 and 4.2 is available here.

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