Xfce Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems.
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Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. Xfce aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.Xfce 4.2 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment. They are packaged separately and you can pick and choose from the available packages to create the best personal working environment.Another priority of Xfce 4 is adhereance to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org.Xfce 4 can be installed on several UNIX platforms. It is known to compile on Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Cygwin and MacOS X, on x86, PPC, Sparc, Alpha...Here are some key features of "Xfce":General · Freedesktop specifications compliance for Window Manager hints, menus, icons themes, XDG Basedir Specification, Xsettings protocol, drag and drop...· Real multiscreen and Xinerama support.· Support for "kiosk mode" in which the allowed user actions can be restricted in xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, and xfdesktop.· Development framework for applications.· Xft fonts anti-aliasing support.· You can install/launch each Xfce module separately. Very useful if you do not need them all or if you have very limited system resources.· More than 40 languages translations... Libraries (libxfce4util, libxfcegui4, libxfce4mcs) · libxfce4util : library with non-graphical helper functions.· libxfcegui4 : widgets and convenience functions to create graphical user interfaces.· libxfce4mcs : settings management library used by most Xfce 4 components. Settings manager (xfce-mcs-manager and xfce-mcs-plugins · Provides the Multi-Channel Settings, a modular, host independent, network transparent and centralized configuration system. It runs in the background and provides global settings information to other Xfce components. There is a main control panel to access the configuration dialogs of Xfce components. Its icons are customizable. The MCS plugins provide settings dialogs for general items that are not part of a package, e.g. GTK, mouse, fonts, keyboard and display settings. Window manager (xfwm4) · The Xfce 4 window manager. It manages the placement of application windows on the screen, provides window decorations and manages workspaces or virtual desktops. Xfwm4 natively supports multihead mode. It provides its own compositing manager (a manager for the Xorg Composite extension, which brings true transparency to the Xfce desktop). The themes support image composition with PNG images as layers, which means that one can do gradients or anything else, and that applies to any pixmap that make the window frame. Xfwm4 includes a keyboard shorcuts editor. Moreover, users can shade windows and switch desktops using the mouse wheel. Panel (xfce4-panel) · The Xfce 4 panel. It provides both vertical and horizontal modes, a workspace switcher, a clock, an auto-hide feature, easy-to-setup detachable menus and application launchers, and a mail checker with mbox, Maildir and POP3 support. The panel supports transparency when the X Composite extension is enabled. It offers an easy way to add a plugin, using a dialog and mouse double-click. It's compatible with the numerous plugins available from the Xfce Goodies Project page. Desktop manager (xfdesktop) · The desktop background manager. This program sets the background image and provides a root window menu. It includes gradient support for background color, saturation support for background image, real multiscreen and xinerama support, a desktop menu editor with DND support from xfce4-appfinder and .desktop files from Rox, Konqueror, Nautilus, Xffm... The desktop menu and the window list have optional support for icons, so you can use icons only if you want, and if your computer has enough resources to handle them. Moreover, Xfdesktop4 provides a desktop menu plugin for the panel: you can get standard menu from either the panel or the desktop. Utilities (xfce-utils) · Essential utilities and scripts. Provides a taskbar, an "about" dialog, a run dialog and several important scripts that are used by other packages including the panel (startxfce4, xfhelp4, xflock4, xfmountdev4, and xfterm4). Also contains the user guide. The taskbar includes an "always group tasks" option, a selectable left/center/right alignment and variable width, and a right-click action menu. File manager (xffm) · A fast file manager, with two independent panes, integrated samba network browser and mount/umount capabilities using fstab data. It includes an icon theme editor. Printing Helper (xfprint) · Print dialog. Provides a graphical frontend for printing. It includes xfprint4 and xfprint-manager. Xfprint can use either CUPS, BSD-LPR or a file as destination, and printers are retrieved from the printing system you choosed. Application finder (xfce4-appfinder) · An application finder, which allows you to search, launch and find information about applications installed on your system. Session manager (xfce4-session) · The session manager. The session manager controls the startup and shutdown of the Xfce Desktop Environment. On logout it can save the running application and start them again the next time you log in. It's compatible with Gnome/KDE, supports multihead modes (Xinerama and multiscreen), doesn't rely on smproxy (or any rewrite like gnome-smproxy), but provides (partial) session management even for non-sm or X11R5-sm aware apps. Moreover, it supports nice themes. Sound Mixer (xfce4-mixer) · A volume control for the panel. It includes a mixer dialog wich supports ALSA, OSS and Sun audio. Notification area (xfce4-systray) · Notification area (or "system tray") for the panel. Toys (xfce4-toys) · Less serious utilities and additions for the panel. Contains a tips/fortunes dialog and an xeyes implementation for the panel. Calendar and Appointments (xfcalendar) · A simple calendar application with reminders. Toggle Button plugin (xfce4-trigger-launcher) · Provides a toggle button for the panel, showing on or off state. May be used for starting or ending network connections for example. Icon Box (xfce4-iconbox) · An icon box that can be used as an alternative for the taskbar provided in the xfce-utils package. Its transparency level is configurable when using the X Composite extension. Themes for the Window Manager (xfwm4-themes) · More than 60 window decoration themes for xfwm4. Icon Theme (xfce4-icon-theme) · Default icon theme for Xfce 4. It includes both PNG and SVG icons GTK Theme Engine (gtk-xfce-theme-engine) · A theme engine for GTK2. Not required for the desktop, but it's a nice theme engine so you might just as well give it a try. What's New in This Release: Development tools (xfce4-dev-tools): · Add support for git (and git-svn) to the xdt-commit script (bug #4491). Utility Library (libxfce4util): · Increment library version to avoid having a 4.6 library version older then the one in 4.4. · Place G_GNUC_INTERNAL before function declaration for Sun Studio compatibility (bug #4580). · Updated translations: Jari Rahkonen (fi), Abel Martin (es) Widget Library (libxfcegui4): · add libxfce4kbd for keyboard-shortcut support · Fix format-string vulnerabilities in 'message_dialog' and 'xfce_confirm' · Improve SessionManagement support · Update translations (de, es, pt_BR, eu, ku, cs, id, fi, sq, nb_NO) Extension Library (exo): · Make Preferred Applications dialog pluggable into the new settings manager. Menu Library (libxfce4menu): · Updated translations: ca, da, ku, nb_NO, sq, tr. Window Manager (xfwm4): · Add support for restart style SmRestartImmediately. · Add support for NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW. · Add client windows to save set to avoid loosing all windows in case of crash. · Rework the window menu to improve consistency with libwnck menu (bug #4531). · Simplify management of transients. · Add support for keyboard shortcuts (bug #4492). · Add new option do disable blinking of urgent windows. · Fix possible crash when the dbl_click_action setting gets unset. · Fix workspaces names not being set in the workspace settings GUI. · Do not display warnings for values that are not configurable via xfconf (typically theme settings). · Draw focus in tabwin to make sure the selection is visible even with themes that do not show selected items. · Add key shortcut for reverse cycling (bug #2778) Desktop Manager (xfdesktop): · Display 'Audio' and 'Video' categories in the multimedia submenu. · Fix multiple image selection in settings dialog file chooser (bug #4522). Panel (xfce4-panel): · Remove signal disconnect left after the patch of bug #4474. · Fix xrandr problem so it's possible to change the panel's monitor after a monitor has been removed (bug #3620). · Panel does not adhere to 'fullwidth' property when using vertical orientation after restarting (bug #4456). · Implement SmRestartImmediately (bug #4516). · Reverse the order of the launcher menu when the panel is on the top of the screen (bug #4450). · Don't spawn zombies (bug #4490). · Quote commands in the launcher when selecting an application (bug #4507,bug #4549). · Restore panel workspace names after panel restart (bug #4589). · Update the tooltip of the clock when it is visible. Session Manager (xfce4-session): · Hook up Help button in settings dialog. · Implement support for the RestartImmediately restart style hint. · Fix possible crash with uninitialised GError (bug #4202). · Link libxfsm against all required libs to avoid link-time errors (bug #4429). · Make splash engines store their settings in Xfconf. · Handle the ProcessID SM property properly. · Add a session editor to the settings dialog. · Fix compilation on some Linux systems with a broken linux/ioprio.h header (bug #4515). · Fix a possible crash on amd64 (bug #4510). · Add support for suspend and hibernate via HAL. Initial patch from Michael Casadevall (bug #2672). · When restoring clients on startup, be sure to set their current working directory if the cwd was set as a part of their saved state. · Add SaveSession kiosk capability (bug #2998). · When a client requests interaction, don't continue to kill all other clients while it's still interacting. And then don't ignore it when it wants to cancel shutdown. Also fixes a similar problem when interaction is requested during a phase 2 save-yourself (bug #4284). Settings Manager (xfce4-settings): · Add an option to disable keyboard settings. · Default to "Rodent" icon theme instead of "hicolor" (bug #4545) · Use XfcePosixSignalHandler in xfce4-settings-helper to handle signals, since calling gtk_main_quit() from a signal handler may not be safe. · Make xfce4-settings-helper connect to the session manager and use the SmRestartImmediately facility to make sure it keeps running. Disable the autostart .desktop file if we were restored from a saved session. Attempt to acquire an X selection on startup to ensure multiple copies of the helper aren't running (bug #4577). Configuration Manager (xfconf): · Add xfconf_channel_new_with_property_base() to restrict a channel to a subset of the property tree. · Add a dbus message filter to xfconfd that catches dbus daemon disconnect signals and flushes channels before xfconfd gets killed (bug #4487). · Change libxfconf GObject bindings API slightly to use gulong IDs for each binding to be used when removing bindings. Extend the unbind functions a bit. · Bump libxfconf interface version due to incompatible change. · Add libxfconf perl bindings. · Remove xfconf_channel_remove_property() and xfconf_channel_remove_properties(). · Only treat the XML file under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME as a "user" file, and treat all others as system files. This fixes the problem where Xfce-installed defaults get read *after* the user's config when Xfce is installed to a user-writable prefix (bug #4592). · Fix build on Cygwin and other platforms that actually care about library link order (bug #4559). File Manager (thunar): · Fix build on MacOS X (bug #4433). · Don't create Thunar -> thunar symlink on case-insensitive filesystems (bug #4430). · Add thunar-wallpaper-plugin for setting the wallpaper on xfdesktop >= 4.5.90 Mixer (xfce4-mixer): · Use xfconf_channel_reset_property() instead xfconf_channel_remove_property(). · Rename stock icons and install them as application icons to $(pkgdatadir)/icons/hicolor. Remove stock code. · Change step and page increment size of the panel plugin to 1%. · Fix license headers to use GPL everywhere. · Use "multimedia-volume-control" icon in the desktop entry. · Fix build with GStreamer < 0.10.14. · Translation updates: Carles Mu?os Gorriz (ca), Abel Martín (es), Csécsey Károly (hu). Andhika Padmawan (id), Terje Uriansrud (nb_NO) G?kmen G?rgen (tr). Utilities (xfce-utils): · Migrate xfce4-session splash settings to xfconf. · Be sure $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart exists when creating .desktop file to disable xfconf migration script. · Migrate xfwm4 keyboard shortcuts to new xfconf format. Application Finder (xfce4-appfinder): · Fix runtime warnings and toplevel menu items always being displayed on top of every category. · Translation updates: Carles Mun?z Gorriz (ca), Abel Martín (es), Maximilian Schleiss (fr), Andhika Padmawan (id), Terje Uriansrud (nb_NO)

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