What XFCE has going for it

[paul cooke]

XFCE is missing an automounter. You can steal the one from GNOME if you like.
Just use the command

gnome-volume-manager&

just remember to save the session so that it will always start up with automounting "enabled"

[mrgnash]

Did you run nautilus by any chance? It'll take over drawing the desktop and you'll loose your wallpaper and right/middle click menus.

If that happens, just kill off nautilus and start 'xfdesktop &'.

You can always open Nautilus with the '--no-desktop' flag to stop if from drawing the desktop.

Nope, I always use Thunar or Konqueror. Thanks for the tip though, I didn't know the command to start the desktop

[ComplexNumber]

What XFCE has going for it?

it uses the most attractive toolkit available on linux today.

[fuscia]

in a way, i think xfce is the worst. it doesn't go as far as gnome as being a DE and it falls well short of openbox and fluxbox as a wm.

[LMP900]

I haven't tried it out yet, but I hear a lot about it and XFCE just might be what I was looking for. I have an older machine at home, I tried Kubuntu and Ubuntu but I found that it was quite slow because of the computers low specs. I'm definitely going to give XFCE a try when I get back.

[jonathansizz]

One thing I like about XFCE is that gtk apps and qt apps both look pretty good and are consistent with each other and the rest of the system.