On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paul > Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at >>> least in the sense of the apps I had installed and were showing up in >>> Gnome menus are there in XFCE. I don't like that it doesn't, at least >>> out of the box on my computer, support multiple file drag & drop >>> actions, but maybe it supports that sort of thing through cut & paste. >>> Not sure. (Just thought of that one.) >> >> Multiple file drag & drop works fine for me in XFCE. I just created a >> folder, highlighted 4 icons from my desktop, dragged them into the >> folder and voila, there are 4 things in it. > > Interesting. Didn't work here for me out of the box. My Gnome desktop > had a bunch of files on it. In XFCE I created a folder, dragged my > mouse across 2 or more of these files. They looked selected but when I > clicked on one of the files and started dragging it the file I clicked > on what the only one deposited in the folder. The other files remained > selected. > > I'll look around for some setting about this. Seems very basic though. > Strange. > > Good to know it should work though.
I'm using xfce 4.6.1 in case you're on a different revision than me. LXDE is another similar one you may want to check out. I haven't tried it personally but it looks similar to XFCE, but perhaps even more lightweight. I think it is a full desktop environment based around the openbox window manager.
