Xfce is a free desktop environment and an open-source (under GPL) for UNIX-compliant operating systems. Thus, it runs on Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX platforms. Xfce is based, just like GNOME, on the GTK+ toolkit for desktop and menus generation and on Xfwm as window manager.
It was originally designed to be similar to the commercial CDE desktop environment. It uses the Xforms toolkit and from here comes the name. But it has radically moved away from the CDE model with the subsequent versions.
XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment available for various UNIX systems. It’s designed for productivity, loading and it… read more +