{"id":14952,"date":"2011-05-25T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14952"},"modified":"2011-05-25T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:56:52","slug":"xfce4-saves-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/25\/xfce4-saves-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Xfce4 saves the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After almost a full day of tweaking configurations and swearing at both Gnome3 and KDE4<\/a>, I decided to follow my brother’s advice – try Xfce4<\/a>. \u00a0This is yet another desktop environment available in Fedora 15. \u00a0I’ve heard a few good words about it, but never actually tried it out. \u00a0Today was the day.<\/p>\n

The first look around after a quick installation showed that most of the things I’ve been fighting with in Gnome3 and KDE4 just work. \u00a0Xfce4<\/a> uses a lot of configuration from those other desktop environments, but somehow it actually understands what the user wanted to configure, even when neither Gnome or KDE do.<\/p>\n

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Xfce4 has a very simplistic tough to it. \u00a0It feels at firs that something is missing. \u00a0And maybe something is in fact missing. \u00a0But after working with it for a couple of hours, I still didn’t realize what it is. \u00a0Maybe it’s not as polished or as wow-ified as other desktop environments. \u00a0But it works!<\/p>\n

All I needed and wanted for my daily routine is there – desktop icons, panels with application shortcuts and widgets, keyboard switcher with flag icons, useful workspace switcher with application thumbnails and windows drag-n-drop support.<\/p>\n

Even more surprising was the fact that Xfce4 picked up my font preferences. \u00a0Gnome3 was configured with nice fonts. \u00a0KDE4 was configured with nice, but other fonts. \u00a0And they didn’t want to recognize each other’s font configurations. \u00a0Xfce4 got with no effort on my part!<\/p>\n

After losing almost a full day to configuration and tweaking I finally have a desktop environment which I can actually use. Hooray!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

After almost a full day of tweaking configurations and swearing at both Gnome3 and KDE4, I decided to follow my brother’s advice – try Xfce4. \u00a0This is yet another desktop environment available in Fedora 15. \u00a0I’ve heard a few good words about it, but never actually tried it out. \u00a0Today was the day. The first … Continue reading Xfce4 saves the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[65,2351,2817],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-desktop","tag-fedora-linux","tag-xfce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14946,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/25\/fedora-15-gnome3-here-we-go-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":14952,"position":0},"title":"Fedora 15 : Gnome3, here we go again","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As you probably know, Fedora 15 was released yesterday. \u00a0I've been waiting for this release with a big worry in my heart. \u00a0While I did, of course, want to have a look at the new service manager systemd and enjoy the power management improvements, I had my doubts about Gnome3.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14974,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/27\/gnome3-tutorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":14952,"position":1},"title":"Gnome3 Tutorial","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is one solid piece of advice I can give you after spending way too much time tweaking Gnome 3 in the last few days: read this Gnome 3 tutorial.\u00a0 Don't just scroll through it.\u00a0 Read every single word of it.\u00a0 It will save you a lot of time and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gnome3_tutorial-500x455.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15095,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/11\/fedora-16-will-use-btrfs-as-default-filesystem\/","url_meta":{"origin":14952,"position":2},"title":"Fedora 16 will use Btrfs as default filesystem","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Linux Weekly News notifies: At the June 8 meeting of the Fedora engineering steering committee (FESCo), the group decided that Fedora 16 will ship with Btrfs as its default filesystem. 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