I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.
Xfce is great
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#102I ran a pretty vanilla xfce setup from about 2010 until 2024 until I moved to i3. Xfce is great generally, pretty easy to backup and share the whole config, ideal collection of apps. I'm sure gnome and kde have more features but for a good, solid, predictable desktop experience, cannae beat xfce.
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#103When KDE 4 came out, I switched to Gnome 2. When Gnome 3 came out in (checks notes) 2011, I switched to XFCE. And that was that. I have a minimal taskbar at the bottom of my screen, with a little tray and a little button for the whisker menu. But I usually launch that using hyper + space. It gets out of my way, it gets shit done, I love it. Let's hope that it will survive the Wayland transition.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recommend changing the key to Super. As holding down Alt and clicking/dragging is often used by many applications and simply won't work then.
I just learned that you can use Super + Left Mouse to drag windows around and Super + Right Mouse to resize, due to this discussion. I have been using XFCE forever, mostly using hotkeys for tilling, and just did not know :D Thanks !
Huh, I'm over 10 years in and didn't know about the rightclick-resize either. I really like it! Thanks!
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#105I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.
I have deleted all window decorations and use F... keys to manipulate resize/move. But you could totally increase the height instead of deleting them
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#106I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.
You can configure a window resize hotkey. I use Win+(drag the window with right mouse) and it resizes it i the way you expect, moving the corner closest to the cursor. Left click would move the window instead of resizing.
This is by far my favorite way to resize and I don't know why it's not an industry standard.
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#107I moved away from XFCE over the CSD drama, despite winning that battle, the resistance showed me the project lacks the backbone to resist GNOME long term
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#108I'm a longtime fan of XFCE. I try all sorts of DEs from time to time on spare computers, but I reliably come back to XFCE, which is really just a fairly low-resource, stable embodiment of the classic GNOME feel. I used mainline Ubuntu for a few years until they released GNOME 3 (which I hated then and hate now) and then I switched to Xubuntu and was happy again.
I made a conscious decision a few years ago (after trying yet another distro that went tits up), I was going to stop playing around WITH linux and start playing around ON linux for computers that I needed to get actual work done on. If one wants a classic Linux feel that is fairly stable, XFCE and a Debian base is pretty good for that.
I am a little concerned about the whole Wayland situation, since the XFCE team seems to be taking a fairly anti-Wayland stance at the moment. It has forced me to manually move from Wayland back to X11 on new installs to get a relaible experience, which is not reliably straightforward and seemingly may become more problematic as time progresses.
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#109Xfce is the definition of comfy computing.
They have a visual language that's not changed for decades and just works.
I prefer tiling window managers with no decorations, but whenever I have an app that doesn't play nice with xmonad I open an xfce x server and do my work there.
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#110I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.
I have deleted all window decorations and use F... keys to manipulate resize/move. But you could totally increase the height instead of deleting them
Yup, there are hacky workarounds, but what I'm after is the industry standard of grab areas that extend beyond the visible borders of the windows (which became more popular as high DPI monitors became the norm - and then Apple recently took to excess). And this is something the XFCE team have expressly said that they will NOT do.
And so I moved on to Mate.