About Xfce

What is Xfce?

Xfce is a desktop environment for UNIX-based operating systems. The project has been founded to offer a fast and lightweight, good looking and easy to use Desktop Environment.

Xfce is based on different components that together provide a complete desktop environment. The modular design allows you to choose from the available packages and to build up your personal working environment.

With Version 4 of Xfce a complete rewrite has been started. It is now based on the GTK+ toolkit version 2 and follows the freedesktop guidelines. All of Xfce 4's core components have been written to fit into the new architecture.

Xfce 4 is all free software. Each component is released under one of the following licenses: the BSD license, the GNU LGPL or the GNU GPL.

Xfce 4 features


 * Freedesktop standards compliance
 * Development framework to help you building your own applications
 * TrueType fonts with anti-aliasing
 * Component based installation
 * File manager with support for samba browsing and mount/umount filesystems
 * A Sizable Panel which can be placed vertical or horizontal and includes auto-hide feature and detachable menus to launch applications
 * Window Manager with more than 60 window decorations, window shading and desktop switching
 * Desktopmenu, and a desktop margins setup utility
 * Graphical settings manager
 * Graphical printing frontend
 * Graphical pager
 * GTK2 theme engine
 * A taskbar
 * Xinerama support
 * More than 18 languages translations...