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Xfce

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Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. The current version, 4.6, is modular and reusable. It consists of separately packaged components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment, but which can be selected in subsets to create the users preferred personal working environ... More info »

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window-manager, lightweight, desktop-environment +1 more, xfce

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My experience with Xfce has not been positive. It did not o ...

Comment by julianbrelsford about Xfce Mar 2010

My experience with Xfce has not been positive. It did not offer noticeable savings in hard drive space or memory usage, as compared to Gnome. On two different eeePC machines, I found that Xubuntu (the Xfce version of Ubuntu) ran no more quickly than the standard Ubuntu. Furthermore, it encountered problems that didn't exist in Gnome: I was not able to open files by double-clicking the file in a file manager. If you want a lightweight window manager, consider LXDE. If you want a window manager where everything works with no fuss, consider Gnome.
 
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elmodos  (User) Apr 2012

Window manager and desktop environment are not the same. WM can be a DE but DE is not just WM. Lightweight WM is Openbox, less quick are xfwm, metacity, kwm.
 
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