Basic features of XFCE

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi Danishka,

2009/8/13 Danishka Navin <danishka at gmail.com>:
> Hi Mile,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> I am working on  Fedora based sipn.

You are working on this
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Xfce/XfceLive I hope? The first
bug in TO DO is fixed with xfce 4.6, that's from a quick look over the
page.

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 2009/8/13 Danishka Navin <danishka at gmail.com>:
>> > And also how to enable desktop effects on XFCE only environment?
>>
>> You can use xfwm4 and enable the compositor (settings > window manager
>> tweaks > compositor > check enable compositor).
>
> is this xfwm4 comes by default?
>
> or do need to add xfwm4 for the normal XFCE desktop packages?

It's the default window manager. Looking at the Fedora wiki page, it
is said that they prefer to turn the compositor off, which is stupid
IMO.

>> > Do I need any external packages?
>> >
>> > Please let me know if i should add any other cool stuff related to XFCE.
>> > :)
>>
>> "Cool stuff" makes me think of games, but I don't know any off-head.
>
> I meant some thing like attractive (i.e lightweight desktop themes, etc)

OK. I had recommend the Aurora GTK+ themes, Clearlooks and Nodoka.

> Danishka

Mike