I've used Xfce exclusively since Gnome jumped the shark many years ago. It's fast, does the job nicely, and stays out of your way.
I do hope they get stable on Wayland sometime soon, because X11 seems to have lost its momentum, and I would probably like to enable fractional scaling on my next laptop.
Xfce is great
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#142I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.
I learned to grab to resize windows in XFCE from upper right corner exactly because of this
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I installed Fedora + gnome onnmy new Framework, it definitely works better out of the box, but i dislike the design :/
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#144Is there something like a tilling extension for xfce? Not snappy corners but actually tilling by default?
I'm currently on popos (using GNOME) and enjoy the tilling of its GNOME extension. Actual tilling wms were too hackish for me whenever I tried them.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instead of Maxx Desktop, check EMWM plus the goodies: https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html I won't consider XFCE vintage but sane, boring but working. Vintage would be a vanilla FVWM, or MWM, or TWM/CTWM. But not so much, as things come full circle. EvilWM would look outdated and crappy under Slashdot threads in 2001 or close, because it looked something from the 80's, altough some bright users stated that it saved tons…
EMWM is really nice. Too bad that Wyaland will make alternative WMs like this one very hard to use and obsolete in the long run.
There was some barebones X server runnng on top of Wayland.
https://wayback.freedesktop.org/
If I have to suffer that in a near future, I want my CWM setup working like before.
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#146I used to love Xfce, when KDE felt clunky to me and Gnome went in directions I found insane. Since then Gnome remains Gnome, but KDE has matured to a stage where most of the defaults feel like they were designed for me - and any that doesn't can be easily changed. After a period of using more and more K* applications, I realized I might as well switch desktop... Xfce is now a fond memory, and the times have moved on.
I had a similar experience. I only moved from xfce when my nvidia board kept killing my X session in creative ways. I'm pleasantly satisfied with kde, but I only have high praise for xfce usability.
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#147I love the idea of a minimal desktop environment, but I've never tried XFCE. Are there any themes that folks here would recommend to make it much prettier? I find the screenshots on their homepage very intuitive but a bit ugly.
If you are a dark mode addicted like me: go for NORD theme https://github.com/EliverLara/Nordic and I love this icon set (white) https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1277095 for more NORD integration have a look here: https://www.nordtheme.com/ports have fun
I'd choose Zukitre better. No dark theme or a light one blinding your eyes. Pretty neutral, gray.
As for the icon theme, Elementary XFCE works perfectly well with Zukitre. If not, ePapirus or Papirus itself. Simple and flat but contrasted, the opposite to a good chunk of flat themes today, where you can't guess where the buttons start and end.
Once you get used to that theme the Night Mode it's useless as I you can just spawn
sct 5500 #or xsct
sct 3500
xsct/xsct will work with any window manager, too. And the Zukitre themes blend really well with minimal window managers as CWM, i3, DWM and the like, as it has neither curves nor gradients.
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#148I really wanted to like XFCE, but the tiny tiny window grab area for resizing is just too damn frustrating.
It is configurable by theme or by changing something like bottom-active.xpm size.
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#149Loved XFCE but it's borderline unusable with high DPI monitors and dual monitor setups that aren't the same.
Yeah, everything on my notebook is quite small.
But now I have so much screen real estate, I'm almost considering using a tiling window manager.
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#150xmonad is my main.
XFCE is when my backup when I break xmonad.