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The Xfce project contains several separated projects for each part of the desktop. Every project has it's own project page to provide additionnal information.

Core Components

	Window Manager It manages the placement of application windows on the screen, provides window decorations and manages workspaces or virtual desktops.		Panel The Panel is part of the Xfce Desktop Environment and features program launchers, panel menus, a clock, a desktop switcher and more.		Desktop Manager This program sets the background image and provides a root window menu, desktop icons or minimized icons and a windows list.
	Session Manager The session manager controls the startup and shutdown of the Xfce Desktop Environment.		Printing Helper Provides a graphical frontend for printing. Xfprint can use either CUPS, BSD-LPR or a file as destination, and printers are retrieved from the printing system you chose.		Settings Manager It allows you to configure every detail of your desktop environment.
	Utilities and Scripts Essential utilities and scripts. Provides a credits and license dialog, a dialog for launching applications and several important scripts that are used by other packages.		Xfce Libraries The three base libraries of Xfce (libxfce4util, libxfcegui4 and libxfce4menu) are used by almost any Xfce application.		Xfconf Simple client-server configuration storage and query system.

Applications

	Mousepad Mousepad is a text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad. The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons.		Terminal Terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarly for the Xfce desktop environment.		Thunar Filemanager Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use.
	Xfburn Xfburn is a frontend burning application based on libburnia libraries to create and burn CD's and DVD's.		Orage A simple calendar application with reminders.		Application Finder Allows you to search, launch and find information about applications installed on your system.
	Mixer A modern sound mixer based on GStreamer.		Image Viewer Ristretto is a lightweight image viewer.		Web Browser Midori is a lightweight web browser.

Art and Graphics

GTK+ Theme Engine A theme engine for GTK+. Not required for the desktop, but it's a nice theme engine so you might just as well give it a try.

Icon Theme Default icon theme for Xfce. It includes both PNG and SVG icons.

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