The only thing I'd really like to change about Xfce is the desktop grid. It is rather coarse making it difficult to place desktop items closely including close to the edges.

I downloaded some of your x86_64 compiled goodies and missed this information. Now I can take a quick look at some packages again =]
Thank you.

My biggest complain about xfce is that mousepad could not print Chinese text files to printers.

I have used KDE since it was introduced in Slackware 4.0 until the last 3.x version in Slackware-current.
When KDE4 was put in /testing, I tried it and disliked it. Worried that this was a sign of the future, I started experimenting with Xfce and liked it so much that I never went back.

I have tried KDE4 again after it was released, but once having used the so much faster Xfce, I can't get used to KDE any longer. And with all the Akonadi and sycoca stuff pestering me, I avoid running any K-app now (ktorrent is cursed software for me now - see this thread)

OK! OK! it works, hurrrumpphh, guess I'll have to try XFCE again for a while.

samac

p.s Thanks Robby

Found another downside, there is no menu editor, so I thought I can get round this by using the xfce-quicklauncher-plugin from slackbuilds, but whilst it builds I cannot get it to run. Any ideas?

samac

I *think* you can simply compose your menu by putting .desktop files in /usr/share/applications with the right "Categories" set in the file.
At least, that's the way I do it.

Try Xfe as filemanager, it's very good, fast and you can launch a terminal with Ctrl + T.
Install Numlockx (available at SlackBuilds.org) and put that in the start up apps.
Very true and very annoying...

tried it, but ctrl t and right click/select are still the same thing, if you navigate away using the file manager does not track your movements, so you have to either open another terminal or change directory at the comman line.

Done and working perfectly.

Very true ...

samac

AIUI Xfce no longer has a menu editor because it is moving towards freedesxtop.org menu specifications. There is a HOWTO Customize the Xfce menu on Xfce's Wikki.

Many thanks, I managed to find all this out by looking through the xfce forum. A most unsatisfying experience.

A quick and dirty method I have been using is to add a new launcher to the panel which gives me single click functionality.

samac

I used to be crazy fan of kde
I do not know why. maybe it is due to the first linux distro that I install is Slackware 12 and its default DE is KDE 3.5.
I believed that KDE is the best desktop environment on the world, I hate Ubuntu so I do not like Gnome.
The release of KDE 4 made me disappointed. the tittle that need big become small and a lot of thing like the ugly in gtk application
I had spent 2 year in hope that the new Slackware version 13 will solve the problem which Mandriva or Kubuntu had surrendered
but alas, Slackware is good but it's is not good enough to make me forget KDE 3.5, it still has bug,and the gtk application is very ugly

And I changed to Xfce,
It is above my imagination, It runs well and beautifully like windows xp, no bug or crash. It took a great step from the xfce version in Slackware 12
I agree that I change to Xfce from now on until the KDE comes back to its old stable and beauty
It is a great idea to include xfce in Slackware

I always love Slackware, and I feel sorry for the current KDE

I started with KDE, but wasn't happy with the way it felt so like Windows. I dropped down to Blackbox but got irritated by the configuration and lack of (at the time) "options" in terms of task bars and the like. Settled finally on xfce, which covered what I needed: some clicky buttons on the panel, with a few panel extensions for volume control and clocks, no desktop icons to clutter up my views (I still don't use the Desktop icons), a pager. The right click program launcher gets used so much with me it's unreal - I only have 5 options in it: Run (often used more than my panel buttons these days), web browser, terminal and file manager, and xfce settings.

For those dissatisfied with Thunar, take a peek at ROX filer. If you use it, you know what I mean, if you don't ... my personal favourite aspects of rox are:

* Double-click white space to resize the window to the contents
* ` spawns a terminal at your current location
* / brings up an editable path, which has tab-complete and goes "up one level" on a delete
* Right click to show thumbs, left click to show all, on one button.
* Zoom in/out on another button
* Middle click icon/up-one/home to spawn a new filer window at that location
* Typing "rox" from a terminal window spawns a filer at your terminal location and doesn't block the terminal!

I find myself bouncing back and forth between terminal/filer using tab complete on each one practically interchangeably.

You can also drag and drop URI links from Firefox (pre-3.5, and presumably other browsers, untested) directly into the filer and wget will pop up and grab that file. For reasons unknown to me at this time, FF 3.5 has a different drop data-type so doesn't work that way.

The con of xfce is that it's not quite a full-blown desktop environment with lots of extra configs and wizards for setting up this or that (kde, gnome) - hardware especially. That said, if you (like me) are very much a 1-program-for-1-task kinda guy and have already sorted out your hardware configurations, then xfce provides a little bit more than the stripped down window managers (*box) and gives you a bunch of extras without too much hassle. If there is a direct competitor, it's probably Enlightment, but I've not used that for a good long while.

In the end, you won't know until you try

- Piete.

I face video tearing problem with xfce compositing on. However when i disable it under window tweaks my videos play fine just like in LXDE/fluxbox/kde.I also asked about it in Arch forums without any luck. I'm using Nvidia7300GS with the latest driver. Anyone faced this problem? That is the only reason I don't use xfce, else I'd use it all the time.