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Xfce 4.2.0 Released
kelnos copies and pastes: "The Xfce Team is pleased to announce the availability of Xfce 4.2.0, the next major version of the Xfce Desktop Environment and Development Framework for Unix and Unix-like platforms. Xfce 4.2.0 can be downloaded here. Xfce 4.2.0 includes new applications like a session manager and an application finder, a new and beautiful icon theme, support for bleeding-edge features (like the X.org Composite extension), usability and performance improvements, better support for multihead desktops, new and updated translations, additional themes, and various other improvements over the previous stable releases. See this page for a complete list of changes between Xfce 4.0 and Xfce 4.2. Furthermore, Xfce 4.2 is the first desktop environment to ship with an easy-to-use and platform-independent graphical installation wizard, which takes care of compiling and installing Xfce on your system. Visit the os-cillation installers website for download links and instructions. If you want to try Xfce 4.2.0 first, without installing anything on your system, you might want to try the Xfce Live Demo 0.2, provided by os-cillation, to discover the power and efficiency of Xfce."
here's the torrent of it
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You could try enlightenment, its not exactly "lightweight" but it could serve that purpose and doesn't have many external dependencies. But really, there is no point of running X without either Gtk or Qt as most apps use one of those.
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Are there any good WMs which don't have any gtk+ or Qt dependencies?
fluxbox
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For any decent-sized drive (128MB and up) on any computer built within the past ten years, XFCE would be fine.
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I know what you're talking about. It's not your distro. The difference is obvious when you compare something like Fluxbox (or Windows!) to Gnome or KDE. In Flux the redraw is basically instantaneous, whereas KDE and Gnome and others there is definitely a noticible redraw. P.S. I use KDE. I've just learned to accept it.
It's a classic. Reposted countless times on Slashdot and other websites since it's first appearance in 1998. The poster had enough sense to change the claimed Mac model from 8600/300 to G5, which is better than your average canned post troll can do, but it's still a six-year-old repost.
(see http://www.kottke.org/98/11/ for a nearly word-for-word identical post made 6 years ago)
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Yes. Settings Manager -> Window Manager -> Focus -> Automatically give focus to newly created windows is what I believe you are looking for.
--For the easily infuriated, here is the direct link to the Debian package repository for XFCE 4:
http://www.os-works.com/view/debian/
--For the impatient:
deb http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
--I spent like 10 minutes going round the bend with their stupid circular links to find that!!
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
Tre enabling the XComposite and XDamage. They have been designed to reduce the problem that you are experiencing.
Basically the problem is that X, your WM, and your program run (and therefore redraw) during different timeslots. In case of GNOME and KDE, they may call other servers out of process before doing the drawing. This becomes really noticable when you move windows, or windows appear.
XDamage and XComposite should solve the problem when you move the windows, as only the buffer actually moves, and no redraws are issued. I am not sure if it will help you get more smooth menues.
And no, XComposite is not enabled by default, because it is beta code, and some applications can behave funny.
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Seriously, give it a whirl, specially if you're unenchanted with KDE/GNOME's last offerings or have older hardware and want to run something better looking than Fluxbox. XFCE has got an increased number of users since version 4, and with good reason. It's great.
The 4.2 version fixes a number of issues with the previous 4.x ones - namely, session management, better configuration options and interface polish, specially in stuff like the taskbar and the panel. The only thing i imagine lacking from XFCE are desktop icons, and they're scheduled for a future version.
That, and it's slow as fuck unless you have hardware acceleration. (Add Option "RenderAccel" "True" to the device section of xorg.conf if you have an nvidia card with the nvidia drivers.)
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IceWM is my favorite.
I don't know who you are but you are not an Xfce developer. You're posting history also shows a high amount of downmodded posts.
... too bad you are taking credit for something you didn't help out with. Perhaps you would like to make it up and send us some donation$ ?
/. crowd: the server isn't even getting warn yet... bring it on more!
Too bad. I'm one of the people who puts a lot of time in xfce
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PS2 thx to the xfce.org crew... now get back to work for 4.4.0 !