Give Xfce4 a shot ;)

LinuxDolt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 104

hmmm... the only thing you have there that i don't is the portage niceness, and i have a few additional opts enabled which you do not... you could try commenting that line and see what happens, but i really do not see that option doing this... if that doesn't work, you may try asking a question about this in the portage discussion forum, which would be a more on-topic forum to post this in...

flavour · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Germany

Has anyone something that adds a nifty desktop to XFce?

Olimaus · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject:

@superjaded hey your right.
that was the point i missed. don't use the -u option

thank you all for the help...

greets
oli

Megaptera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 145

Wow, I'm definitely impressed with the window manager. Scrollwheeling to switch workspaces, good window snapping, and middle-clicking to vertically maximize--all the things I miss in Gnome2, I think. I'd be okay with the panel if I can figure out a way to make windows avoid either covering it up or getting covered by it. I'll gonna experiment with using XFWM as Gnome's WM and see how that works, since so far that's got most of what I'm liking.
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Megaptera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 145

Toth: That did it, thanks -- if anyone's interested, my panel is tiny, and a bottom margin of 34 seems to do the job :)
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I am very very impressed with Xfce4.

As soon as it goes stable, I will most likely use it on my embedded computers (I'm currently used WindowMaker, I'm a engineer working with outdoot LCD display systems and I'm trying to wing my company off windoze, CE sucks).

I love the default windowing theme, I think it might possibley be the best I've ever seen (beeting Liquid for KDE). I love the fact that it uses the xfree "red" (when you set xfree to use the red cursor) cursors not just for point but for resizeing too, under KDE the red point is there but when you resize a window it uses a different cursor.

I love, let me say that again LOVE, the Samba browser, it's much like LinNeigbhood. Listen up KDE you need a Samba browser like that, it just plain works (with out any configuring). That's my biggest problem with KDE, and that's a HUGE thing needed by regular (mom, dad, girlfriend) computer users.

I love the responsivness of the window movement. It's just real real smooth. Even KDE apps (konqueror) move and resize good under Xfce4.

The file manager could use some work. The panel needs some more features (many more). Other than that I'm hooked.

heath holcomb

zypher · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject:

Glad you like it. It's my primary de for months now.
Just wait for the final release and you'll see the first neat panel-plugins already.
On my laptop I have volume-control, systemload and battery-monitor

It's not only eye-candy and fast, it's also (imho) a very effective working-environment.
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hakan · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:09 pm Post subject:

Xfce4 is great. I have read that it should quite good, so I gave it a try. Thats how Gnome should be, easy to configure, fast, stable (so far it is, maybe there some bugs ;-)

).

Is it possible to config that the opened windows fade out if I close them (not important, but I like it)?
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jarealist · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 228

Didn't see this posted anywhere else. Just thought those interested would like to know.

"Latest news and announcements

2003/07/12

XFce 4.0-RC1 is out !

The XFce project is pleased to announce the first release candidate of XFce 4.0 Desktop Environment and Development Platform."

http://www.xfce.org/

graybeard · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:59 pm Post subject:

Have to agree with the kudos. I like gnome2 but on my oldish hardware it is slow (and in 2.2.2, buggy too).

I tried some of *box enviros first, and could not figure out why anyone would bother, I'd use the command line first.

Then I emerged xfce3, and it was ok but a tad clunky. But xfce4 is a huge improvement and is now my default DE. Thanks beejay for calling this to my attention.

-dan

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Halanegri · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:33 pm Post subject:

Many of you should try editing the gnome-base/gnome-light ebuild and change ~x86 to x86 and emerge it. It's really, cool, very similar to xfce ofcourse(NO programs, just the gnome config tools), but all of Gnome's nifty features(like the panel and such).

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

tried it when this thread was created, and tried it again now, now it's most defenatly my new permanent window manager!

zypher · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject:

HermesConrad:
https://developer.berlios.de/projects/xfce-goodies/

Here you'll find the battery-plugin.
I made some cvs-ebuild for these, if anyone is interested...
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frbie · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 63

Hello,

on the xfce website they say that there is now a 4.0 RC2 ebuild. I can only find the 3.99 ebuild.

Is the 4 RC2 really out and when "yes", where can I find it?

Liff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 111

I'm pretty sure that RC2 is called 3.99.2 in portage... either that or it's not in there yet.
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LinuxDolt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 104

4.0 RC-# == 3.99.#

that is how portage is handling the release candidates.... Liff was correct, if you read the changelogs it says so right in there... or at least i believe that is where i had gotten my confirmation when i had wondered about that a good while back

frbie · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 63

Hello,

thanks for answer. It's clear now.

adastra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 106

I asked this question in another thread but I didn't get very many views, let alone an answer.

I wonder if anyone has found a way to add to the XFce4 Settings Manager window? I would like to be able to configure xscreensaver (by running xscreensaver-demo) from that window. Anyone have a clue?

LinuxDolt · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 104

perhaps no one replied because no one could come up with anything... what needs to be done, or at least the only thing i can think of, is for you to reinvent the wheel and make an mcs-plugin module by hand for whatever you wish to add... maybe you might contact the devels and suggest a plugin that will add links to all your existing configuration progs? you would still have to manually add the links to the existing progs via the new mcs plugin, but it would be a solution... and certainly easier than personally creating mcs plugins for each and every one...

horgh · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 29 Location: HH, Germany

for all you searching for a great filemanager i can alway suggest xfe !
xfe rocks! lightweight and speedy

paralyzed old nautilus is a shame
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davens · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject: woa, dependancies

I was about to emerge xfce4, but I'm getting a lot of strange dependencies like cups, some gnome stuff, samba, 10 perl things, gimp, an mpeg lib, esound, foomatic. Is this bacause of my USE variables? All I set was -gnome, -gtk.

ps, how do I get stuff from the terminal to the forum?
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davens · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject:

found out my default use variables in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults were "x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode gdbm gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib"

isn't that a little excessive?
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taskara · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:11 am Post subject:

I just switched to XFce4 from fluxbox, and I like it.

I just got everything the way I wanted.

changed all my icons, added all my apps...

and rebooting, and it worked fine.

but this morning when I turned my pc on, and went into xfce4, everything was gone.

the taskbar was there, but all the icons from the XFce panel were gone.

[img:3daa4cc200]http://www.smartclan.com/images/xfce4.png[/img:3daa4cc200]

argh!

can anyone offer any suggestions as to what may have happened, or how to get it back?

of should I delete my ~/.xfce4 dir and start again?

cheers