Xfce Features
- Cross platform: Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Cygwin, and MacOS X
- Lightweight desktop environment
- Basic and lightweight applications
- Goodies for maximum features
- Real multiscreen and Xinerama
- Kiosk mode to restrict the configuration
- Translated in more than 40 languages
- Freedesktop specifications compliance
- Extended Window Manager hints
- Desktop Menus
- Icon themes
- XDG Base directory
- XSETTINGS protocol
- Drag-and-Drop protocol
Xfce provides a lightweight desktop environment with default icons and themes. First it is completed with a desktop manager providing icons, next with multiple panels for a default menu, preferred applications and extra plugins, and a window manager with Xorg's composite feature for transparencies and shadows. Moreover it suits a session manager for startup and shutdown functionalities, and a settings manager for global Xfce components and general items.
Xfce provides common applications, designed to be lightweight too for the desktop environment. These applications are: a modern terminal emulator with tabs, an iCal based calendar to notice events and appointments, and a mixer to control the volumes. Some Xfce applications comes with a panel plugin. For example the calendar provides a plugin to show a customizable date, and the mixer provides a control on the master volume.
Finally Xfce provides end-user applications, always designed lightweight, which are: a simple and fast text editor with printing feature, an easy-to-use file-manager, a media player based on Xine, a CD's and DVD's burner, and an archive manager supporting multiple compression formats.
