Cool xfce apps

bob.snyder bob.snyder at cox.net
Mon Aug 11 05:13:55 CEST 2003


Some of the newer users of xfce, who never ran xfce3, may not be aware 
of some really nice apps that came with it.

xfdiff is a gui file comparison program that shows two text files side 
by side and highlights the differences in a very intelligent way. It can 
create diffs too.

xfglob is a gui file search program that is a graphical front end to 
glob. Very nice.

xfclock combines a clock and calendar.

Probably others that I've forgotten.

These programs came with xfce3 but are not included with xfce4. Of 
course if you have xfce3 on your machine, you can still run them, add 
them to an xfce4 menu, etc. My guess is that when xfce4 came out the 
people that used them didn't need them to be included as they already 
had them.

I suggest that they be added to the extras that come with xfce4. Even 
though people can still get them from the xfce3 distibution, they won't 
know about them unless they are made available in the new version.

Bob S.





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