I have seen some screen shots of xfce that displays the windows on a desktop in some kind of a panel. Something similar to what Gnome does. Any idea on how I cna achieve that? At the moment I use the window list as an icon on the corner of the panel. I click on it and I can choose the windows, but I would prefer to see the windows names and all the windows at the time.

Sorry to sound like an idiot, but I have no idea how Gnome handles windows list.

But from your description, I gather that you are not using the taskbar for your windows listing needs, but the iconbox instead.

If this is correct, then I'd suggest that you run xftaskbar4... and tell me if that is what you needed.

I have not yet understood how to extract the kde-menù in xfce...
The option "desktop menù" in the right-click panel is disabled..

I've been using xfce for a couple of week, and I have customized my personal menus, so I don't really need it, but it may be useful sometimes..

Actually the "Desktop Menu" is not disabled... that's the menu header :)

A nice tool to generate a more robust personal menu for XFce (and other WMs) is MenuMaker... Check it out :)

done!

Works great, but didn't have icons...

Great you are the man!!!!
Other question is there any way I can configure xftaskbar4? Like only showing the windows for one desktop? or changing its possion?
Also, how can I start it when I lounch xfce without calling the command xftaskbar4?

Thanks for the help

xftaskbar4 is configurable, especially in what you are trying to do. At the XFce Settings Manager, click on the Taskbar icon.

xftaskbar is called by a default XFce install, but somehow this is not the case for you it seems. Anyway, to make xftaskbar4 launch by default for all users, you should edit this file: /usr/etc/xfce4/xinitrc.

Look for xfdesktop& somewhere in there, and just insert xftaskbar4& above it.

eg.

Thanks, maybe I was to lazy to check the settings for task bar. I play with it before and as I dind't had it working I could't see the changes. Any way now I configured it.

In installed XFCE4 with Mandrake 10 rpms. The file is located at: /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc. By the way the line was comment.

Thanks. I may came with anotother questions. Maybe we should start a thread call xfce tips or something like that, because this thread was made to see witch desktop is the faster.

Thanks again

to get XFce4 to work:

install the xfce4 package from the Slackware packages from your choice of a slackware mirror or your first 10.0 disk.
install startup-notification-0.6-i486-1

now it should work

i have been using window-maker for about 2 hours now. and i simply love it. i have used KDE GNOME before, and XFCE for around 1 hour. but i didn't get to make awesome keyboard shortcuts anywhere. in wm, you can assign shortcuts for launching applications or how the windows will behave. it's really great. very light-weight, and i can launch all the applications without touching the mouse (who needs menus when you have shortcuts!). really really great. :)

..er, but someone, how do i get rid of the docking icons? i don't want them hanging around.

-- Adil

You can do all of those things you mentioned with KDE, GNOME, or XFCE. I just switched to XFCE after using Window Maker for about 5 months, and I have to say I'm impressed. I will still use KDE for my desktop computer, but for my laptop, which isn't very powerful and doesn't have much RAM, XFCE is perfect.

The only desktop that work fine on my PC is xfce. There are two things that made the choice:

1. In gnome I have to use -vo x11 in mplayer, In xfce I can use the default vo output.

2. I like gnome. However, sometimes a windows is big and I cannot move it over the top. That mean I cannot press a mouse button until I get a highe resolution, it is unacceptable for me.

In xfce4, I do not like xffm which is a bit buggy and uncomfortable. I also dislike that the panel menu cannot be hide completely. A white line is remain there.

The window list could be in the bottom

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Anyone ever use icewm with Slackware? I've just started trying out Slackware on a batch of Pentium IIs.

For a "batch" of pc's or users, you might want to set one user's xfce up pretty well, with standard programs on the menues, etc. and then copy the $HOME/.xfce directory. Possibly the "/etc/skel" could help, but I don't know.. I think setting up the menu and similar stuff with xfce is a pain, so once is enough. Also, xfce3 came with a decent set of icons, but xfce4 (as included in Slackware 10.0) doesn't. Since I use lower power computers, xfce is a real help.