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Xfce ([ɛks ɛf siː iː][3]) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It is made to be fast and lightweight, while still looking nice and easy to use.
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.png) XFCE 4.14 with customized panel and Whisker Menu on Debian 11 | |
| Original author(s) | Olivier Fourdan |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Free software community[1] |
| Initial release | 1996 |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | gitlab |
| Written in | C (GTK) |
| Platform | Unix-like |
| Type | Desktop environment |
| License | GPL, LGPL, BSD |
| Website | xfce |
The current version, 4.12, is modular and reusable. It is based on the GTK+ 2 toolkit (formerly used in GNOME). It uses the Xfwm window manager, described below. Its configuration is entirely mouse-driven, and the configuration files are hidden from the casual user.
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Olivier Fourdan started the project in 1996. The name "Xfce" originally stood for "XForms Common Environment", but after that Xfce has been rewritten twice and no longer uses that toolkit. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as "XFCE", but rather as "Xfce".
Xfwm
Starting with version 4.2, the window manager of Xfce, Xfwm, integrates its own compositing manager. Other compositing managers exist, but have been very unstable, and Xfce was the first to put its own compositing manager into the window manager. At its beginning, many users called it the most stable one available, though at the time, in late 2004, xcompmgr was the only other compositing manager available.
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While not as common in Linux distributions as the KDE and GNOME desktop environments, there are still some distributions where Xfce is the default desktop environment, and most support it as an optional part.
These distributions include Xfce in their default environment:
- ALTLinux 4.0 Lite (CD)(in Russian)
- Archie
- Debian Xfce CD
- Dreamlinux
- dyne:bolic
- Fedora Xfce Spin
- FreeSBIE (FreeBSD LiveCD)
- Gentoo Linux 2008.0 installation
- KateOS
- Linux Mint Xfce
- Mythbuntu
- Myah OS
- SAM Linux
- Slackware
- SLAX Popcorn Edition
- VectorLinux Standard Edition
- Wolvix
- Xubuntu
- Zenwalk Linux
- Gentoo Linux for the PlayStation 3[4]
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