Fractional scaling finally arrived, I will try it ASAP. Last time I looked in to Xfce there was no way to have a fixed workspace on a secondary display (something that possible in Gnome, for instance). Since I use workspace a lot having a secondary display is kind of useless because it switches workspace at the same time. I since started to use the rather fine Xfce+Awesome combination, but should Xfce get a fixed workspace feature I might go with pure Xfce again.
Xfce 4.16
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Feels like Win98SE to me (that's a compliment). Love it for that, though back to KDE for my daily driver.
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#53I haven't used Xfce in a long time, but it will always have a soft spot in my heart. It kept my computer usable when I was a teenager, and was the first open source project I contributed to (translations). Congrats to the Xfce team on the new release, and on having hit their stride again, it seems, with the move to GitLab.
Same. I've since moved on to LXDE and then LXQt, but XFCE was there for me first.
LXQt as daily driver? May I ask what distro? Any annoyances?
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#54Odd how no one has mentioned the addition of client side decorations. Personally it's a huge dealbreaker for me, I really dislike how they look. It's a shame, because the release and Xfce in general otherwise seems really good. Guess I'll stick to MATE for now.
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#55This 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…
Wow, I just learned from your casual remark that you can actually search in the xfce console. Awesome!
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#56I like the xfce look and the xfce specific apps unfortunately I tried using xfce on a dell xps 15 laptop and had problems with screen tearing while scrolling up/down. I never found a fix so ended up on KDE.
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#57Does 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.
You can probably just install them alongside each other.
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#58This 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.
KDE feels like Windows 10 to me, and that's a bad thing. It's so disorganized. But, Gnome 3 screwed up input, mostly trackpad scrolling, so I use KDE or XFCE.
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#59It sounds like their move to GitLab is really helping development. I hope that trends continues for them. Xfce is a great DE.
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#60Oh no, those icons. Shadows and depth without perspective looks really awkward. Lots of the icons blend into the background because of low contrast and lack of border or drop shadow. I really liked the tango icons.
Well, I don't have a strong opinion on them myself, but I can offer you some reassurance: this is Linux . There's always at least a few programmers grumpy enough in response to any kind of change that they'll do something about it and provide some option to use the old thing. I'm sure the tango icons will have their own legacy icon theme soon enough, if not already.
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