On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:05:33AM +0100, Keith Powell wrote: > On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 9:58 am, Anders Lind wrote: > > > Ah well, there's always IceWM or Gnome. > > > > XFCE 4 is gonna be off the chart, use that instead ;o) > > > > /Anders > > Hello Anders. > > Thanks for the reply. > > I have tried XFCE for the first time, and have mixed feelings about it. It may > be because I have not got to grips with it, but it seems to be rather limited > in what it can do. Comparing the program as supplied on Mandrake9.1 with the > documentation, most of the utilities seem to be missing. I'll give it a longer > tryout and see if I can sort it. XFCE certainly appears to be one of the most > popular lightweight desktops.
If you're using the program that came on the 9.1 CD's then you're not using XFce4. XFce4 is still in development (rc3 released about a week ago) and I don't know if anybody is working to include it in the MDK 9.2 final release. I don't know what would be involved with that, but probably some sort of menu integration script etc. Also, there are many extras/goodies/plugins that are not part of the official release. These include a systemload plugin, netload plugin, showdesktop, minicmd (small textbox for the panel for launching commands) and so on. If you need to quickly build a root menu, MenuMaker can do that for XFce4. It provides a configurable and customizable lightweight environment: panel, taskbar, background manager, root window menu, desktop margins, pager. What else do you need? Todd
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