Will this make it into the upcoming Debian Bullseye release?
Enable the Debian Backports repo and give it the highest priority.
Ask the #debian users in Freenode for help in order to set it up right.
Xfce 4.16
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Re: Xfce 4.16
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Xfce is lighter weight than Gnome 3, and actually allows you to customize things that matter (to me). You can set it up in various ways visually, even though the default look is usable out of the box. Xfce's window manager is the best of all I've tried. Maybe not as configurable as e.g. Sawmill, it has a lot of useful functions that are missing from Gnome-based offerings, and from macOS: window snapping, automatic wi…
Does it have an expose style feature? I started using Gnome a few years ago almost by accident, and since then I can never go back to a window list. As Gnome started pissing me off (it is very unstable, in a version-to-version change way, not in a crash way) I discovered that I am too addicted to it and couldn't find expose style elsewhere.
In the old days, you got an exposé style feature by compiz and friends. I don't know the current situation, but for instance KDE/KWin also features an exposé style (can be triggered by keyboard shortcut or magic edges/corners for the mouse cursor).
Re: Xfce 4.16
#43So, is this the first version of Xfce without a dependency on Gtk2 (i.e. Gtk3-only)?
Yes!
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#44Thanks to all contributors, I have found a home in XFCE after Ubuntu drop Unity.
Re: Xfce 4.16
#45This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just "feels like home". Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Curious here. Advantages of XFCE over KDE or Gnome. I use KDE. I need to know from a regular user. VM is not enough.
It shows windows, has a bunch of great QOL and power-user features, and doesn't have a bunch of bells and whistles. I don't want my DE to have a bunch of animations and transparency effects and things popping up in every corner every five seconds. I just want a thing to show windows and let me efficiently navigate them. XFCE does that perfectly.
Re: Xfce 4.16
#46Xfce has another little detail not mentioned here: a very friendly forum with one of the best moderators of the whole internet.
"Moderator" doesn't make him justice, though: ToZ will help you achieve almost anything imaginable when it comes to Xfce, and then some!
Big kudos to all the Xfce team and community, and extra sweet love to ToZ, you rock!
Re: Xfce 4.16
#47This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just "feels like home". Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Me too but I can tell you why. - Coherency: the way it works and is presented does not change much over the years. It's important for me. I don't want to adapt everytime a designer thinks he has a good idea. - Simplicity: it just works and is well configured out of the box - Efficiency: not the lightest Desktop Manager in the market but it is light enough so it won't eat resources for nothing - Right level of complex…
I agree, XFCE is there when you need it. No weird experiments, always consistent.
Re: Xfce 4.16
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Xfce is lighter weight than Gnome 3, and actually allows you to customize things that matter (to me). You can set it up in various ways visually, even though the default look is usable out of the box. Xfce's window manager is the best of all I've tried. Maybe not as configurable as e.g. Sawmill, it has a lot of useful functions that are missing from Gnome-based offerings, and from macOS: window snapping, automatic wi…
Does it have an expose style feature? I started using Gnome a few years ago almost by accident, and since then I can never go back to a window list. As Gnome started pissing me off (it is very unstable, in a version-to-version change way, not in a crash way) I discovered that I am too addicted to it and couldn't find expose style elsewhere.
I think it does, in a form of a separate app: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfdashboard/start
Re: Xfce 4.16
#49This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just "feels like home". Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Me too but I can tell you why. - Coherency: the way it works and is presented does not change much over the years. It's important for me. I don't want to adapt everytime a designer thinks he has a good idea. - Simplicity: it just works and is well configured out of the box - Efficiency: not the lightest Desktop Manager in the market but it is light enough so it won't eat resources for nothing - Right level of complex…
Same. We had this 2010s bubble of design space exploration and constant 'disruption' but in the end .. the good old paradigm is still way more than enough.
Re: Xfce 4.16
#50Does anybody know how hard is it to switch from gnome to xfce on arch linux? Is it just removing gnome and installing xfce?
Maybe someone could share their experience who has made the switch recently. If it is not a big thing that could potentially break everything, then I'd be happy to try it out.