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The Xfce Desktop Environment |
License: GPL / BSD
Activity Rating: High
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX platforms. It is similar to the commercial CDE, and is now based on the GTK+ toolkit.
A strong point of Xfce is its ease of configuration - it is driven entirely by the mouse. The latest version features drag and drop, session management, translations for numerous languages, including support for multi-byte character sets, and numerous other features.
The desktop environment includes a window manager, called XFwm, the main panel, a file manager, a backdrop manager, a sound manager, a calendar, a pager module, and a GNOME compliance module.
Here are some screenshots:
- From the Xfce website, added in May 2000: screenshot (116k).
- From larry.magnello@usa.net, added in May 2000: screenshot (220k).
- From stevn@ofir.dk, added in August 2003: This screenshot (163k) is from the development version of Xfce version 4.
- From tipaul@donatek.net, added in August 2004: This screenshot (156k) is from Xfce 4.
- From marc.plumet@edpnet.be, added in August 2004: A screenshot (195k) from Xfce 4.0.5 running on FreeBSD.
- From horen@horen.org.il, added in January 2005: This screenshot (290k) is from Xfce 4.2.
For downloads and further information see the The Official Xfce site, which also contains more screenshosts.