Thoughts on the XFCE desktop environment?
>>106402336 (OP)
is there a DE with a smaller memory footprint
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 5:25:54 PM
No.106402395
I wish I could make it look good (for me)
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 5:34:13 PM
No.106402466
>>106402336 (OP)
It's alright, but the panel could use some TLC. Cinnamon's panel is a little more featured but also exponentially buggy. I still prefer xmonad w/ xmobar & dmenu on top of the xfce4 terminal & other tools, xfwm4 is a decent 2nd for when I feel truly lazy.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 5:36:41 PM
No.106402485
>>106402473
Akshually, it is mouse shit.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 5:52:26 PM
No.106402636
>>106402664
Archcraft uses it and takes the pain of ricing away but it uses custom repo packages so IDK if you'd like it.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 5:56:01 PM
No.106402672
>>106403579
>>106402336 (OP)
I use it and i like it, despite some dumbass shits here and there.
But not the standard that comes with it, copying OSX is fucking retarded because OSX is fucking retarded.
Luckly it's like 5 min to make it more like windows.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 6:51:37 PM
No.106403236
>>106403000
>>106403069
not OP, though admittedly I was messing around.
Genuinely though, redpill me in mate? It was the first de I ever used on linux ages ago but haven't used it in over 12 years now.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 7:21:39 PM
No.106403551
>>106402336 (OP)
My DE to go by 20 years at this point
>>106402384
Lumina
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 7:24:53 PM
No.106403579
>>106402672
>5 minutes
Why? Just go to preferences > panel profiles and pick the windows preconfigured one, takes 3 seconds top.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 9:03:03 PM
No.106404451
>>106402336 (OP)
Outdated and without a usecase. Just use a WM only at this point. If you're going to use a DE, anything other than Gnome or Plasma is the wrong choice.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 10:51:17 PM
No.106405590
>>106402336 (OP)
Looks pretty good except for the Mac app tray. Trash that, pop the panel and the bottom and you're looking pretty good.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 11:02:55 PM
No.106405661
needs better wayland support.
Anonymous
8/27/2025, 11:49:44 PM
No.106406131
>>106408241
>>106408720
>>106402384
desu modern xfce isn't even that much lighter than modern kde. not sure if xfce got pajeetified or if kde got good, but last time i tried xfce i wasn't impressed and figured the couple mb of ram wasn't worth not just having kde
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 4:24:03 AM
No.106408241
>>106406131
Ouch. How will mouse chuds recover from this?
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 4:31:27 AM
No.106408294
Great for Chicago95 or that one Windows XP transformation, but I wouldn't be caught dead using it for anything else.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 4:32:20 AM
No.106408300
>>106408356
>>106408361
>>106402336 (OP)
was good when it was gtk2 (4.12), not it's shit
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 4:40:21 AM
No.106408356
>>106408384
>>106408300
just use MATE. perfection is eternal
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 4:41:09 AM
No.106408361
>>106408390
>>106408300
just downgrade it, fuckdollish cumbuckettarded negro
Thunar is the best file manager on linux.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:38:54 AM
No.106408707
>>106408755
>>106408697
It does have that though.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:40:06 AM
No.106408720
>>106402384
lxqt, last time i checked
>>106406131
not anymore, plasma is buffier again, not to mention it uses more cpu and gpu
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:41:08 AM
No.106408727
>>106408382
nemo is also good (or at least what i remember)
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:44:09 AM
No.106408745
I'm trying to set up Chicago95 but I've got a few niggling issues.
>Wine fonts.
Even though I'm using a bitmap font, Wine's menus always anti-alias the text unless I disable font AA in XFCE settings. Curiously, if I disable AA before launching the exe, I can re-enable AA without affecting Wine.
>Wine theme
The colours on the Wine menu are also wrong!
>Applications menu and the Super Key
The Super key works just fine on the Whisker menu, but I'm using xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu instead. Unfortunately, while the Super key can open the xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, pressing Super AGAIN won't close it. Very annoyingly, any shortcuts that involve the Super key (like Super+R for Run) will open the applications menu. I also wish I could make the menu larger.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:45:47 AM
No.106408755
>>106408764
>>106408707
If you press "fffffffffff" in Thunar, it won't cycle through files beginning with "f", but instead search for filenames beginning with "fffffffffff".
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:47:25 AM
No.106408764
>>106408770
>>106408755
Type "f" then use arrow keys.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:48:25 AM
No.106408770
>>106408781
>>106408764
>just [do extra steps]
No thanks, I'll use Dolphin.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:51:16 AM
No.106408781
>>106408794
>>106408770
Ok retard, if you think pressing "f" then "down" is more steps than pressing "ffffffff" then you're beyond help. What if I did have a file called "ffffffff" but typing that file name just brings me to my ninth file starting with "f"?
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:53:20 AM
No.106408794
>>106408781
>pressing "f" then "down" is more steps than pressing "ffffffff"
Yes, because I only have to use one hand and can keep it in one place, without taking my right hand off my mouse?
>What if I did have a file called "ffffffff"
I don't have such filenames because I'm not an ADHD schizophrenic.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:53:42 AM
No.106408796
>>106409806
>>106402336 (OP)
i kinda like it but symlinking fonts from my Windows 10 partition somehow turns the entire OS into gibberish so i ditch it
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 5:56:49 AM
No.106408809
>>106402336 (OP)
In my experience it is the most stable and just-works of the "lightweight" type desktop environments.
Anonymous
8/28/2025, 8:46:04 AM
No.106409763
>>106406986
>rat.png
>is a mouse
what did she mean by this?
