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XFCE 4.18

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Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by nortonham »

biggunz wrote: post #16
otikik wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Market share will continue to decline until wayland support is added, no matter how great any new features are. It might be that they are not interested on "Market share". Or they are but not enough to justify the work. I'm sure they would be glad to accept a pull request.

I had to abandon XFCE due to some issue with aging XFCE4 libraries and high cpu problems, switched to KDE Plasma 5.x,. got 50% longer battery lifetime and havent looked back. They need to focus on these kinds of problems, not on adding new features, otherwise I would have stayed.

what about a DE's libraries would make it drain so much battery life?

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by Anthony-G »

One of the nice things about XFCE is that its window manager includes a style called “Kokodi” (on CentOS 8 Streaming) which shows the active or focused window with a distinctive blue title bar.

I’ve found that many other window managers (including MS Windows), don’t make this visually obvious (i.e., there’s little difference between the focused and non-active windows) which makes it harder to discern which application is currently active while using multiple monitors.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by andai »

KronisLV wrote: post #49
ufo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's what I did back when I used XFCE a couple of years ago: The xfce whiskermenu plugin includes a text search feature that looks similar to the one from Windows. On Xubuntu the whiskermenu is the default "start menu" while in some other distros you may need to add it in the panel settings. Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text sea…

> Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text search. I've had this trigger the popup menu when there is another shortcut that binds the Super key in combination with something else. Say, if I had something under Super+R, then the menu would also open. Though maybe this has been patched out in the newer versions, I remember that issue being…

Same, so I rebound whiskermenu to Meta+Space.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by mizzack »

tux wrote: post #35

I've used XFCE (since Mar 9th, 2008 until Apr 7th, 2021) now using "i3-wm v4.21" as my main window manager on all computers. But I still use a lot of XFCE software like Thunar been most notable. Thunar has received much needed love, thank you to all developers making it better. Thunar now has "Split View" (dual pane mode) this is one of the reasons why I used more "PCManFM" or "ranger", but unlike Thunar "PCManFM" ne…

You should give i3 + XFCE a go... Start an XFCE session, launch Session and Startup settings, disable xfwm4 and xfdesktop, add i3, relogin. Done! XFCE DE with i3 window management.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by nortonham »

josteink wrote: post #10
bgorman wrote: post #2

XFCE should be spending all of its development efforts on supporting Wayland. The project's priorities are clearly not in the right place to ensure the future growth of the project. Market share will continue to decline until wayland support is added, no matter how great any new features are.

I don’t know. Wayland support is very important (tm) to us Wayland-users, but I don’t know how the rest of the world feels about that. It could be like that whole kerning -thing which is super-mega important to some people, while the rest of the world don’t even notice?

X always worked fine for me and my basic use case. I do agree something new is needed to replace it, but I don't have a need to try it until it's more mature.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by gsich »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #9
coldpie wrote: post #3

Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my ho…

> If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. If you want Windows 95 in 2022: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

It's actually pretty good. Sometimes the inconsistencies shine through.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by red_admiral »

Anthony-G wrote: post #72

One of the nice things about XFCE is that its window manager includes a style called “Kokodi” (on CentOS 8 Streaming) which shows the active or focused window with a distinctive blue title bar. I’ve found that many other window managers (including MS Windows), don’t make this visually obvious (i.e., there’s little difference between the focused and non-active windows) which makes it harder to discern which applicatio…

THIS.

I remember the days when you could pick a theme (which was just a set of bitmaps with a fixed palette) and then pick a couple of "accent colors" to customise it. If you picked your favourite shade of dark wine red as your GTK_ACCENT_COLOR (might have been called something else, I forget), then highlighted things like buttons, selected text, and the title bar of the active window only would be that color.

I loved the old flexibility of being able to choose the shape of my buttons, title bars and widgets and then tweak the color myself - "I like that theme's rounded buttons, but I want them in red not blue" kind of thing.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by red_admiral »

Well done. XFCE is a desktop for people who want just a desktop, and a file manager that manages files well - Thunar is a great piece of software IMO.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by cf100clunk »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #9
coldpie wrote: post #3

Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my ho…

> If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. If you want Windows 95 in 2022: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

While we're at it, you can customize XFCE to look like macOS Big Sur:

https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=oQ8RWtD3MTQ

EDIT: there is an updated version of this procedure:

https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=uvvoJU69uNo

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