Outline of user environment XFCE 4.18

After two years of development published the release of the desktop-rejection xfce 4.18 , aimed at providing a classic desktop, requiring minimal system resources for its operation. XFCE consists of several interconnected components that, if desired, can be used in other projects. Among these components: XFWM4 window manager, application launching panel, display manager, user management manager and energy consumption control, Thinar file manager, Midori Web-Browser, PAROLE media player, Mousepad text editor and environment settings.


main innovations :

  • In the library of the elements of the Libxfce4ui interface, a new widget is proposed
    XFCEFILENAMEINPUT for entering a file name that informs about the mistakes made in the case of unacceptable names, for example, containing extra gaps or special systems.




  • A new widget has been added to set up keyboard combinations that provides a graphic interface for reassigning hot keys specific to various components of the user environment (only Thunar, XFCE4-Terminal and Mousepad are maintained from the components. //cdn.xfce.org/about/tour/4.18/xfce4ui-shortcuts-editor.png”>
  • conducted optimization of service performance for creating miniatures (pixbuf-thumbnailer). The possibility of changing the parameters of miniatures for the desktop, such as the possibility of using large (X-Large) and very large (XX-LARGE) icons, which are conveniently used on high-resolution screens, was given. The Tumbler miniature processor and the Thunar file manager implemented the ability to use common miniatures used by different users (miniatures can be preserved in the subcatal next to original images).
/Media reports cited above.