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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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eclipse - swt - using windowbuilder in xfce env

I have some problems with eclipse indigo x64 Linux; The problem is using windowbuilder (the SWT); I tried using gwt or swing but they both cause either windowbuilder freeze or even eclipse crash... The alike issue it seems I found related info in…
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Xfce4 goes black randomly on DragonFly BSD release 4.2.4

The xfce4 desktop environment goes black on random occasions during use. Install xf86-video-ffbdev. Will post updates here, and the solution as soon as I've found it. $ uname -v DragonFly v4.2.4-RELEASE #6: Sun Aug 9 13:25:14 EDT 2015 …
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Misrendered character in Debian/Xfce terminal

I have an older desktop running Debian Stable with Xfce as the window manager. It's been working fine, except that as of today the character U (only uppercase) is shown as a filled block similar to █. This is the case in the terminal and in gedit…
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I want to handle closing xfce4-notifyd notification

import pynotify import gobject def on_clicked(notification, signal_text): print "1: " + str(notification) print "2: " + str(signal_text) notification.close() def on_closed(notification): print "on_closed" …
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GTK2 link error on Travis-CI

I'm developing an xfce4 plugin and I'm trying to use Travis-CI. I've written a Makefile.am in my root directory like so: SUBDIRS = src dist_doc_DATA = README.md Consequently, in my src directory there is a Makefile.am like this: bin_PROGRAMS =…
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Xfce4 change internal name of launcher or let launcher show all items instead of a menu

When adding a launcher to a panel in Xfce4, the launcher is called just "launcher" in the panel items configuration with a flyout text like "Internal name: launcher-12". Neither is very helpful when there are several launchers in the…
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Font corruption or fallback failure in Chrome

I have the following font breakage on many sites using Chrome 39 on Debian under XFCE: It occurs on a variety of sites using custom fonts, all different. I can use developer tools to disable all font-family rules in CSS (most of the time) so that…
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Time issue with Successive execution of OpenMP scripts

I'm having issues with execution times of C OpenMP scripts. Timing within the script is done on a block of code using the gettimeofday() function: gettimeofday(&tim, NULL); double t1=tim.tv_sec+(tim.tv_usec/1000000.0); .. Timed Code…
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How can I have Gnome terminal effects for XFCE?

Surely, this is documented somewhere. I for some reason or another cannot find the answer for this. Most people are wanting to make their terminals completely transparent, I however want the effects where you see the desktop background. I am certain…
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x11 - how to keep window at fixed position

I develop a plugin for Compiz (window manager). A window manager is run by xfce on my test machine. I have two monitors which are set vertically (top 1920x1080+0+0, bottom 1920x1080+0+1080). A bottom monitor is set as a primary monitor. This option…
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Linux Terminal PS1

I am not sure if this is possible but I couldn't find the answer anywhere else or even people who have tried it but my current PS1 is this: export PS1="\[\e[00;32m\]??\[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\]\n\[\e[0m\]\[\e[01;31m\]\d\[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\] \[\e[0m …
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Application crashes in XFCE using Mono and GTK#

Good day! I have a problem that I was not able to figure out myself, and Google this time did not have any reasonable suggestions. So this is the last hope. I have an application written in C# and WPF that I wanted to port to Debian running xfce…
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xfce4 mouse switches workspace

I am running linux mint 16 with xfce. I don't know what exactly happend, but the workspace gets switched to another as the mouse moves through screen edge. This is quite annoying! Is there any setting I can fix to restore to normal behavior?
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Program works in GNOME but does not work in XFCE (Ubuntu 12.04)

I wrote some C++ program, using qt and gstreamer, where I take photo from the webcam, then I open the folder with the saved image with image icon selected. To open folder I have tried : QProcess::startDetached system() popen() I give command line…
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How to add shortcut to Xfce (ubuntustudio)?

I went to Settings => Setting Manager => Window Manager => Shortcuts I can modify exist keyboard shortcuts, however, there's no Add option. I googled only found out that there's + (Add) button on Shortcut tab. Is there something wrong with my…
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