Xfce Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• distro hopping

  Pick up your Desktop Environment based on your computer's specs, NOT on your visual preferences. (HINT: XFCE consumes way less system resources than GNOME and KDE). Source: 5 months ago

• Lightweight dev tools.

  It’s a bit of an interesting challenge and has forced me to re-examine some of my tool usage. I started by a minimal install of Debian “bookworm” with the XFCE Desktop Environment which chews through much fewer resources than the default GNOME 43 based environment (although more than LXDE - but there still has to be room for aesthetics). - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)

  Luckily you can get an efficient, clean Desktop Environment that works well and is actively developed: Xfce ( https://xfce.org/ ) I think you will like it. It has a very early-2000's feel IMO. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• best lightweight linux distro for old laptop and gaming

  Well, it depends. It was better experience than FreeBSD 7.2 that's for sure. :) It was running Xorg with https://i3wm.org, a web-server, XMPP-server, PostgreSQL, few bots and dovecot / postfix (e-mail server). It was doing fine routing internet for 2PCs and a WiFi router for 10 years until its HDD died. For gaming... erm... I was able to play something like Theme Hospital or Syndicate Wars in dosbox. You have to... Source: about 1 year ago

• Only one of the four XFCE4's desktop/workspace got hung and now I can't use wallpaper

  Another resource for help might be xfce.org. It's a low traffic site, but responsive. Source: about 1 year ago

• A few problems/qustions that I personally have regarding linux as a noob user.

  That's neither a distro nor a linux question TBH and yes, of course you can remove a distro theme. Just use the configuration tools available. Documentation for the desktop environment can be found on the development websites of said DE's so kde.org gnome.org xfce.org etc.etc. Ad nauseam. Source: about 1 year ago

• A good day, and, a noob day

  Xfce: quite similar to Mate, but it has nothing to do with it or GNOME. It is also lightweight and you can also rearrange the panels and it's contents to what you like, but by default it has a top panel with a windowsy-like interface, but with a sort of dock on the bottom. Has bit more options and it is beloved by many becasue it is meant to be a modular system, meaning that the panels, window manager, panel... Source: about 1 year ago

• Need Mentorship

  Xfce: Developed by a worldwide community, it is a more modest and simpler desktop environment. It is designed to be lightweight, so it is perfect for older or low power computers (or to leave more room for your apps). It is also customizable (not as much as Plasma, but much more than GNOME). Source: over 1 year ago

• what desktop manager do you prefer?

  You can try xfce! It's a balance between customization and lightweightness Btw, it's not called a desktop manager, it's called a desktop environment. Source: over 1 year ago

• Everything is so small i cant read Ubuntu 20.04

  That suggests you may be running Xfce and not GNOME (the default desktop environment). AFAIR Xfce doesn't provide a scaling option in its settings. You'll probably have to use xrandr directly. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Dracula theme problem

  This looks like either a bug in xfce's theme engine or a bug in the theme. I'd report this directly to both parties (the dracula maintainers and the xfce maintainers). Source: almost 2 years ago

• First time using pure Debian

  So sounds like GNOME is one thing. Less / not applicable if you use XFCE ... Debian 11.3, the latest stable point release, has the latest XFCE 4.16. Https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#idm120 Https://xfce.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• New Submission

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• What's the good window manager for a beginner?

  If you want a full-featured solution, you're talking about a desktop environment. You have several good options there: GNOME, Plasma, and Cinnamon are very popular (if a bit more resource heavy) ones. Popular lighter desktop environments include XFCE and MATE. Source: about 2 years ago

• VirtualBox on Artix (Arch-based Linux): Install

  Well, let's start the application. In my desktop environment, Xfce4, the menu is in [System] - [Oracle VM VirtualBox]:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Text/browser layouts too small. Solutions?

  Manjaro comes with 3 different desktop environments, so is yours gnome desktop environment, which looks like this: https://www.gnome.org/. Or is it kde, which looks like this https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/. Or is it xfce, and this one looks like this https://xfce.org/. Source: about 2 years ago

• How good could Linux be if there was only one big distro?

  Don't like the desktop or windows manager? You can replace them with gnome, kde plasma, xfce or about half a dozen others. Source: over 2 years ago

• What is the default theme

  If you take a look at XFCE's website, the default theme is Greybird with a mix of Adwaita and the proper Greybird as the xfwm4 theme. Source: almost 3 years ago

• What is the default theme

  Adwaita I believe is the default, that's what it looks like on xfce.org. Source: almost 3 years ago