Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them all in Xubuntu builds

Re:Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them a... by pjmlp on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:45PM (#33925662)

Someone has missed their Linux history lessons.

While we can debate between being plain window managers, or already proper desktops, depending on the configuration scripts, we have, twm, fvwm, fvwm95, enlightenment, afterstep, windowmaker.

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Re:Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them a... by pipeline_peak on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:35PM (#33926701)

Those are all window manages and you know it…

If it requires a config script to make it user friendly it’s not a DE. That along with an app suite is what distinguishes DEs from standalone WM’s.

Some of the wm’s you listed can actually run as a core component to be wrapped around a DE.

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Re:Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them a... by pjmlp on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:42PM (#33926747)

If we are playing honesty here, you also know that XFCE 1.0 wasn't one.

"Initially, XFce was just the toolbar, without the window manager and all the goodies. In 1998, I released XFce 2.x with xfwm, the window manager. The rest of the goodies came from release to release ... "

https://web.archive.org/web/20070116201506/http://linuxgazet...

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