Why XFCE?

[uncle mark]

IIRC XFCE was originally chosen (over KDE) to work on a netbook owned by Jerry3904.

Yup. It's all Jerry's fault..

[Dennis-TW]

Here are some themes that mix & match well together and deal with the too dark to find border issues. Qogir, victory-gtk, IceBlue. They are all available on http://xfce-look.org

Qogir checked, liked and installed. Thank you very much!

I have already spent some time on xfce-look, but all attempts to get a consistent design failed so far.

I mean I could also live with Arc-Dark and the Papirus icons, however, Qogir definitively looks more sleek and elegant.

[Eggnog]

For those who want Thunar to offer a dual panel, it's on the Xfce wish list. As they say, vote early, vote often to get it moving up the popularity chain.

I find it most convenient to launch two instances of Thunar and copy/paste or drag/drop from one to the other. In fact, I find it more intuitive than a two-panel approach.

That's what I do. I open the destination directory in another window and drag and drop, copy and paste between them. I think it works just fine that way. I just move the two windows where I want them and away I go.

[torxxl]

Bonjour,
Un truc que je n'ai pas réussi c'est de garder le choix d'affichage. Par exemple dans les photos je veux de gros icônes et mes documents un affichage en liste.
Possible sous XFCE ?

[deanr72]

But why not give the MX version of it a trial? .... You might even get to like it after a day or two!


I've already got it installed on my second pc. I'll continue playing around with it, adding and deleting themes and programs etc. playing with panel layouts and what-not and see how hard it is to break.

Then I'd do an clean install when I know what I want.

[GuiGuy]

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I've already got it installed on my second pc. I'll continue playing around with it, adding and deleting themes and programs etc. playing with panel layouts and what-not and see how hard it is to break.

Then I'd do an clean install when I know what I want.

[Sparky]

Because it works, it works well out of the box.

[nematocyst]

I was happy with gnome2. After the gnome3 fiasco, I experimented and moved to XFCE. It is efficient, and non-gimmicky. Mostly I think others are solving non-existent problems. I'm not interested in glitz-- the DE doesn't define my identity. I want simple, clean, unobtrusive. That's what XFCE gives me.

The only issue I have with it is one that afflicts the others-- tearing.

[WarhawkCZ]

Well, newbie here but what I really dislike at XFCE is the poor multi-monitor environment support. I mean when you have a laptop and
switch between different combinations. I was able to somehow solve it with xrandr but it is still not out of the box solution.

(imho) XFCE is lightweight on resources but still convenient and attractive looking.

[BitJam]

what I really dislike at XFCE is the poor multi-monitor environment support.

That should be XFCE-4.12.3 and XFCE-4.14. We're at 4.12.1.

There was also this curious post: Why do people often use XFCE for multiple monitor setup?