XFCE 4.8 Prerelease

[Khakilang]

I had PCLinux XFCE install in one of my older computer. I wonder I could do an update to 4.8 and see how it goes.

[Warpnow]

Better picture of my updated XFCE 4.8pre3 system:

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/120...113112550p.png

I'm liking it so far.

[bailout]

Is it possible to undecorate windows in the latest xfce? I have lubuntu/openbox on my netbook and find that being able to just right click on the window border and select undecorate to free up some vertical space is really useful. When I was looking into lightweight desktops the lack of this in xfce was the main reason I didn't choose it although I preferred some aspects of it compared to lxde.

The other annoyance I found was how difficult it was to make a launcher on a panel. I like to have a small 2nd panel at the top of the screen as a quick launcher but the way of adding launchers in xfce was needlassly time consuming.

Warpnow, that is a lot of ram for a 'lightweight' de with not much running. That has always been xubuntu's problem. They managed to take a lightweight de and add so much of the standard ubuntu bloat to it that it was just as heavy as standard ubuntu.

[Spice Weasel]

Is it possible to undecorate windows in the latest xfce? I have lubuntu/openbox on my netbook and find that being able to just right click on the window border and select undecorate to free up some vertical space is really useful. When I was looking into lightweight desktops the lack of this in xfce was the main reason I didn't choose it although I preferred some aspects of it compared to lxde.

You can use the Openbox window manager inside Xfce. Just start xfce4-panel and xfdesktop(4?).

[Naiki Muliaina]

Warpnow, that is a lot of ram for a 'lightweight' de with not much running. That has always been xubuntu's problem. They managed to take a lightweight de and add so much of the standard ubuntu bloat to it that it was just as heavy as standard ubuntu.

Not really Xubuntus problem, XFCE was only the 'lightweight' option when it was the only 'lightweight' DE about. XFCE shines as a modular desktop piece though. The 'take what you want' desktop. Which currently, nobody else really does (or at least well). Gogo XFCE!

[Spice Weasel]

Not really Xubuntus problem, XFCE was only the 'lightweight' option when it was the only 'lightweight' DE about.

Hm...

Alpine Linux:



Xubuntu gives Xfce a bad name.

(image from kmandla's blog)

[Naiki Muliaina]

Most of the top XFCE alternative distro's are similar in usage to Xubuntu (sabyon, fedora, even Zenwalk and dreamlinux). The blame doesnt lie solely with Xubuntu.

If you want lightweight there's better out there, if you want modular, XFCE all the way.

[andrew.46]

Don't forget one of the more 'vanilla' packagings of xfce can be seen with Slackware. I attach a screenshot of xfce 4.6.2 running with Slackware -current. Packages of 4.8 pre 3 are available but sound a little too unstable for my tastes .

Andrew