I love Xfce
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| Author | Content |
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| Steven_Rosenber Sep 19, 2007 9:42 AM EDT |
Xfce, Thunar, Mousepad, the Xfce Terminal. All excellent. And since Xfce works so much better on older hardware, it should be way, way better on newer boxes, too. |
| jdixon Sep 19, 2007 9:51 AM EDT |
It's the default desktop on my Slackware box. |
| Sander_Marechal Sep 19, 2007 1:39 PM EDT |
I have only one problem With XFCE. Thunar in particular: I access a *lot* of other computers through SSH. On the few XFCE distro's I tried so far, in none of them was I able to type something like "ssh://sander@server" in Thunar, forcing me to the console and scp for copying files. |
| Bob_Robertson Sep 20, 2007 11:07 AM EDT |
> "ssh://sander@server" I was so happy when I discovered Konqueror's fish:// function. No need for samba, no need for nfs, a remote machine is just another directory through vanilla ssh. |
| Sander_Marechal Sep 20, 2007 11:28 AM EDT |
Yeah, Gnome's Nautilus does it as well (with ssh:// instead of fish://). I was quite disappointed that it doesn't work in Thunar. With the amount of time I spend on other systems it's a deal breaker for me. |
| dinotrac Sep 20, 2007 11:38 AM EDT |
>I was so happy when I discovered Konqueror's fish:// function. Yes. Tis a wonder, and one of the reasons I face KDE4 and it's "de-functioned" konqueror with some trepidation. I must admit, though, that I am surprised that you like it so much, given the religious symbolism and all. |
| thenixedreport Sep 20, 2007 11:57 AM EDT |
I use Xfce4 on my Dell OptiPlex GXi. It only has 64 MB of RAM, a 2 MB internal Trio graphics adapter, a 2-3 GB hard drive, and an onboard ethernet controller. Okay, so at times, it moves at the speed of molasses, but when everything's loaded, it chugs right along. I run Xfce4 on Debian 4. ;) |
| azerthoth Sep 20, 2007 11:57 AM EDT |
Some (all that I used to use konqueror for) of the defunctioned functions are now in Dolphin. File manager, storage devices, nfs, ssh, samba connections, etc are there. Thats why I really pay no attention to desktop/user environment. I dont need Gnome or KDE, all I do is install the bits and pieces I want then either hotkey or autostart it in Fluxbox. |
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