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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 10, 2011 16:51 UTC (Thu) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)
In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by jrbrtsn
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

> 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.


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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.

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