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Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Xfce pronounced “Ecks Eff See Eee”, is about a desktop environment providing simple and intuitive tools!

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use; thereby directly increasing productivity.

Xfce 4 embodies the goal of the traditional philosophy of modularity and reusability. It consists of a number of components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment. Many 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 adherence to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org.

Xfce 4 can be installed on several UNIX platforms. It is known to compile on , , , , , and , on , , , Alpha…

History

Olivier Fourdan started the project in 1996. The name Xfce originally stood for XForms Common Environment, but since then, Xfce was rewritten twice and doesn't use XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but the F is nolonger capitalized (not “XFce”, but “Xfce”). Currently the acronym doesn't stand for anything (suggestion: X Freakin' Cool Environment).

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xfce4 via VcXsrv Server on wsl2 issues with DPI

I'm new to linux - well, not new to bash basics, but running on an old laptop for the first time a linux mint distro, and at the same time on the main windows machine running wsl2 with xfce4 via VcXsrv server. There are a lot of tips on setting this…
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Detach process to start firefox in C

The point of this C program is to make it easier for me to open websites that correspond to each of my classes at school. The code generally works perfectly when I run it in my terminal (kitty), but it fails when I bind it to a key. I am on Linux,…
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Xorg server memory leak observed due to Qt application on Ubuntu Unity and XFCE

We run following test to create window, show window and close window and observed that Xorg RES memory or you can say Main memory is swelling on each creation, show and deletion of window. we just run below code and click on pushButton Note: We have…
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vagrant checksum error while installing linux-mint xfce desktop

VagrantFile: # vi: set ft=ruby : # All Vagrant configuration is done below. The "2" in Vagrant.configure # configures the configuration version (we support older styles for # backwards compatibility). Please don't change it unless you know what #…
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Apply GTK3 theme systemwide

Task / Problem: I have a self-created gtk3-theme in ~/.local/share/themes/mytheme/gtk-3.0/gtk.css. I would like to apply that style systemwide. How would I do that? System: XUbuntu 19.04 GTK version: 3.24 What I did / have: Prepare…
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command line jump to the above line when backspace is pressed

I'm not sure how to reproduce this problem each time: It just occur occassionally. When I press Backtrace on my keyboard. then the cursor on my terminal go back to the above line .. This phenomenon happened for many years during my work, I'm not…
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Bash: check if the current directory is a Git Repository

I have a color schema for my XFCE terminal and I try to set the branch name and color when I'm inside a directory which is a Git Repository. Actually this is the configuration of my bash: PS1="\u@\h $(if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]]; then echo '\W'; else echo…
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Where in the hello world assembly program is the segmentation fault?

I have written my first assembly program ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; Writes "Hello, World" to the console using only system calls. Runs on 64-bit Linux only. ; To assemble and run: ; ;…
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Language keeps returning to the default settings in Linux Xfce

I am using the Linux Xfce machine provided for us by our professor which has Turkish keyboard layout. Every time I change the language, it changes for a while and then return back to the Turkish layout again, even if I remove the Turkish layout form…
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Shift/send individual chrome tabs to different workspaces

In my xmonad.hs on xfce4, when eg emacs starts, it goes to my first workspace with a manageHook like so: className =? "emacs" --> doF(W.shift(myWorkspaces !! 1)). That's dandy, and I can similarly send "google-chrome" to a single workspace. But,…
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xfce4-session "cannot connect display" error

I'm trying to run xubuntu-desktop on WSL as per the tutorial given by many sites. But I can't seem to connect to the display of VcXsrv and it always shows: xfce4-session: Cannot open display: . Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage. If I run…
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How can I tell which Xfce workspace is currently visible from a bash command on terminal in that workspace?

I want to run a slightly different bash command depending on which Xfce workspace I am running on. How can I get the Xfce workspace name (or some unique number) for the current workspace on the bash commandline. Well actually from an alias.
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Is there a way to make the icons in Geany IDE brighter?

I'm using the Geany IDE with the GTK3 theme set to Adwaita-Dark. For the most part this works perfectly fine. However, the icons at the top screen are too dark to see clearly: Is it possible to change these icons to make them more visible against…
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Testkitchen / KitchenCI - How to change console output colors?

In the present case Ansible is used with KitchenCI/Testkitchen. Question: How can I control the color of the kitchen output? I tried different coloroptions in ansible but for kitchen I didn't find any options, but this bugs me, especially if the…
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Creating AMI for VNC on Ubuntu

I'm trying to create an AMI of an Ubuntu 18.04 EC2 that's configured with VNC. I've successfully SSH'd into it and connected via a VNC Viewer. I then created an image from the running instance, however launching new instances from this image fails…
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