What makes Xfce so good?

[Alpay Erturkmen]

yep, same thing here....

i was using w2k on my p2 366 128 ram thinkpad, it was sloooowwww.... then 
i have installed rh9 but kde and gnome were sloooooowwww too :) then came 
xfce4, which is the solution i was looking for. customizable, 
nice-looking, has no silly menus and faaaaaaasssstttt... my thinkpad is 
flying for a p II... :)

i use opera for web and email... i use rox filer (hell, i don't like xffm 
coz' its slow :)), xmms, mplayer, gaim, openoffice... and i use vim+sdk 
for java and sometimes eclipse or jbuilder... (yes i use eclipse on 128mb 
RAM, i am crazy :))


On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:09:57 -0500, Lionel Laratte <myth47 at comcast.net> 
wrote:

> My turn:
>
> I like Xfce because:
>
> 1. It's simple - I'm not a programmer but I love technology and I run
> Linux on an old laptop (PII 266, 96MB RAM) and an old desktop (K6-2 500,
> 128 MB RAM) and it's fast on both.
>
> 2. It looks and feels professional.
>
> 3. The people on this list have never made me feel like a meathead.
> Even when RTFM would have been appropriate, I received help in an
> e-mail.
>
> Thanks, everyone.  The product of your labor is appreciated.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce-bounces at xfce.org [mailto:xfce-bounces at xfce.org] On Behalf Of
> Ben Hall
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:14 PM
> To: XFCE general discussion list
> Subject: Re: What makes Xfce so good?
>
>
> If you're using bash, add export TERMCMD="gnome-terminal" to your
> .bashrc file.   (I believe you will have to restart your X session for
> the change to work.)
>
> Ben
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>
>>> Lol! For good reason, there is no such "xfce terminal", it's a
>>> wrapper shell script to whatever terminal you want, primarily used
>>> for DnD purpose.
>>>
>>> Just set TERMCMD to gnome-terminal and type "xfterm", you'll see.
>>
>>
>> Where do I set this so it's activated on login?  I've been changing
>> the menu to launch gnome-terminal.
>>
>> --Yan
>
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Alpay K. Erturkmen
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METU Informatics Institute M.Sc 2003
METU Industrial Engineering 2001

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