Basic features of XFCE

Danishka Navin danishka at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 15:45:07 CEST 2009


Hi Mike,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>


I am actually on a Fedora remix.
Not exact  XfceLive <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Xfce/XfceLive>

Danishka

Right now i am on 700.3MB mark and I want to check whether i missed any
important XFCE based software.

>
> > 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
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