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Xfce

Xfce is a desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux and FreeBSD. Its configuration is entirely mouse-driven, the configuration files are hidden from the casual user. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources. (Olivier Fourdan, creator)

Xfce also provides development framework for applications. Other than Xfce itself, there are third-party programs which use the Xfce Library (computer science), most notably Mousepad text editor, [http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfmedia/ xfmedia] audio player and a [http://terminal.os-cillation.com/ Terminal emulator].

Xfce is based on the GTK toolkit. It uses the Xfwm window manager. Xfce is somewhat similar to the commercial CDE, but has been getting a little farther away from that comparison with each new version (it was completely re-written twice, between versions 2 & 3 and 3 & 4).

The name Xfce originally stood for XForms Common Environment , but since then, Xfce was rewritten twice and doesn t use XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as XFce , but Xfce . The developers current stance is that the acronym doesn t stand for anything anymore. The installer for the XFCE based distro Zenwalk labels the description for XFCE as the Cholesterol Free Desktop Enviroment .

The latest version is 4.2.2, released May 17, 2005.

= Xfce distributions =

Xfce is not as commonly found in Linux distributions as other desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME. Few distributions include Xfce as their default desktop environment, though many (such as Debian and Fedora Core) include it as an optional component.

Some distributions which include Xfce by default: *Xfld (Xfce live demo) *Archie (Linux) *College Linux *Morphix ( LightGUI version) *Slax ( Popcorn Edition ) *Whoppix *Zenwalk *Xubuntu *Fedora Core

= External links=

*[http://www.xfce.org/ Xfce - Desktop Environment] homepage *[http://www.xfce-look.org/ Xfce Themes and artwork] *[http://www.xfld.org/Xfld/en/ Xfld Xfce live demo CD]