Xfce is simply awesome

[smartboyathome]

One annoyance I had when I tried XFCE was that there was that the menu editor sucked. It wasn't nearly as good as Alacarte for creating new items and reorganizing menus. Another was that I couldn't change the panel background very easily (minor, but still I like my panels to blend in with the rest of my theme! ).

[OrangeCrate]

I use Xfce over a full Ubuntu install, not an Xubuntu install, and it does everything I need it to do. Besides, I simply prefer it's looks to Gnome.

[crimesaucer]

One annoyance I had when I tried XFCE was that there was that the menu editor sucked. It wasn't nearly as good as Alacarte for creating new items and reorganizing menus. Another was that I couldn't change the panel background very easily (minor, but still I like my panels to blend in with the rest of my theme! ).

You have to hand edit the menu.... I think it was this file? ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml



Having a panel image in xfce4, I used a gtkrc-2.0, with a simple bg_pixmap image.... it still sucks for transparency though. Gnome panel is much better.

[cookieofdoom]

ok, i can have icons in the middle, as well as the left and the rigt side of the menu bars. I want to place my icons wherever i want, i don't want to haev to deal with some ugly hack that are spacers.

and like other people said, no drag box clicking on the desktop

and a few other annoyances that i haven't thought of at the moment..

I'll admit spacers are annoying. I don't like icons in the middle though, so I haven't been hit with that problem yet. Drag box for desktop... I turned off desktop icons. I find them annoying. I think every Window Manager has it's problems/annoyances. For me, I can deal with the XFCE ones. The great thing about Linux is choice.

[smartboyathome]

You have to hand edit the menu.... I think it was this file? ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml

I know, its just a pain in comparison to Alacarte.

Having a panel image in xfce4, I used a gtkrc-2.0, with a simple bg_pixmap image.... it still sucks for transparency though. Gnome panel is much better.

Cool, I didn't know that. Though I do also like transparency (I use it in GNOME all the time for my panels).

[sisco311]

xfce4 compositor is super awesome.

[crimesaucer]

Cool, I didn't know that. Though I do also like transparency (I use it in GNOME all the time for my panels).

Here is my old gtkrc-2.0:

style "panel"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = "#181818"
  bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "panel-crop-twice.png"
  fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
  }

widget_class "*Panel*"      style "panel"
widget "*Panel*"            style "panel"
class "*Panel*"             style "panel"

you just put this in the home folder like this ~/.gtkrc-2.0


Here is the image I used to match the xfwm4 theme called kokodi:




This would match a xfwm4 theme that I made to be the same color and transparency. Basically, all you have to do is make a copy of the xfwm4 kokodi theme, and then change all of the .xpm files to the #181818 color.


(you can change those .xpm's to any color, and change the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 bg[NORMAL] = "#181818" to the same color to match.)

[smartboyathome]

I may have to give it a try again once they get a good GUI menu editor.

[crimesaucer]

xfce4 compositor is super awesome.

Looks good. Cool colors.

[crimesaucer]

I may have to give it a try again once they get a good GUI menu editor.

I've read that editing the xml file is a pain.... I think 4.6 is gonna fix that issue.