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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Posted Nov 10, 2011 12:53 UTC (Thu) by jrbrtsn (guest, #32739)Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
On a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 I tried Unity for a couple of weeks, and then Gnome 3 for a few days. After that I installed xubuntu-desktop (which is XFCE) and am much happier with that.
Unity seems to be aimed at using less screen real estate (especially vertical). However, XFCE can quickly be configured to use one auto-hiding vertical panel which is ideal for a widescreen laptop or netbook.
One of my biggest beefs with Gnome is that I can't find a way to deactivate the raising of a window when I click in that window.
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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 15:03 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
Check gnome-tweak-tool or file a bug. Cannot check atm, but the options used to be in the Windows preferences and should (eventually) appear in that tool. Another solution is dconf-editor.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 16:41 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
It's not currently in gnome-tweak-tool. What component should a bug be filed against?
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 18:55 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 16:51 UTC (Thu) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
> However, XFCE can quickly be configured to use one auto-hiding vertical panel which is ideal for a widescreen laptop or netbook.
On a netbook I have found that Gnome Shell provides a reasonable setup to run full-screen applications as one press of the Window key brings all the shell GUI. This does not work with auto-hide panels as they do not show up with full-screen.
But so far this is the only thing that I found that Gnome Shell does better then other WM. On a bigger screen XFCE or Gnome-2 are just more productive for me.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 18:52 UTC (Thu) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
You can add a button to the Xfce panel that minimizes all open windows. There's no keyboard shortcut associated with this by default, but you could add one. I think there might be a keyboard shortcut to maximize a window, too, but I forgot what it is.
Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 10, 2011 23:05 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]
"Unity seems to be aimed at using less screen real estate (especially vertical). However, XFCE can quickly be configured to use one auto-hiding vertical panel which is ideal for a widescreen laptop or netbook."
Amen to that, use it on widescreens, netbooks, and dual head setups. Been using that configuration since the Afterstep/Wharf days. Easy switch to XFCE. Definitely a superior experience compared to MS Windows/Gnome/KDE, or OSX.
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