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Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com)Posted Feb 20, 2007 21:19 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) by twiens Parent article: Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) XFCE is definitely the way to go. The only downside is there are some really good KDE (Kile, Eric3) and Gnome (Abiword, Gnumeric) applications; I don't think XFCE prevents you from running them, they just might start a bit slower since the libraries they depend on are not yet in memory. I gave XFCE a go some years ago but dropped it since it did not support some UI conveniences I felt necessary (or at least was addicted to at the time, like automatically hiding taskbar). I guess it is time to take another look. The prospect of getting back some of the computing power sucked up by mainstream bloatware desktops is tempting.
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Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment (Linux.com) Posted Feb 20, 2007 21:30 UTC (Tue) by cantsin (guest, #4420) [Link] I gave XFCE a go some years ago but dropped it since it did not support some UI conveniences I felt necessary (or at least was addicted to at the time, like automatically hiding taskbar).Give at a new try indeed. It's been almost entirely rewritten, and, yes it can automatically hide the taskbar... (Make sure to install 4.4 and not an older version though.)
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