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Current version : XFce 3.8.16

XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems.
The XFce project was first started because I needed
a simple, light and efficient environment for my Linux System.
There are now a lot of good environments and interfaces
for UNIX based systems, but most are too heavy,
or too expensive, or even both ! 
I wanted something easy to use and configure,
stable, fast, and, at last but not least, visually appealing... 
I believe that the desktop environment should
be made to increase user productivity. Therefore, the goal is keep most
system resources for the applications, and not to consume all memory and
CPU usage with the desktop environment.
From version to version, XFce became more and
more user friendly and easily configurable. As XFce is made for the user,
it has to be very simple to configure. That's why everything is driven
by the mouse, using buttons, drag and drop, etc., and the configuration
files are hidden from the user, although it is plain text.
XFce 3 is based on GTK+, a free and powerful tool kit widely adopted
by many applications. 
XFce 3.x features :


XFce, the main panel


XFwm, the window manager


XFTree, the file manager


XFClock, a clock and calendar


XFbd, the backdrop manager


XFMouse, the mouse configuration


XFSound, the sound manager


XFGnome, the GNOME compliance module


XFPager, the pager


XFRun, a small utility to run programs by pressing Alt+F12


XFGlob, a powerfull file search tool


XFDiff, a great graphical diff frontend


XFSamba, the new SMB browser


XFbdmgr, a small utility to manage list of backdrops for Xfbd


Plus as set of shell scripts for use as Drag and Drop actions for the XFce
panel (xfterm, xftrash, xfprint, xfhelp, xfmountdev, CDE2Xfcepal, etc.)

If you are upgrading from previous versions of XFce, version 3.x now features
:


Drag and drop


File management


Full session management support, including builtin session management and XSM (X11R6 protocol).


Support for several graphic image types with Imlib (if available) or GNOME gdk-pixbuf.


NLS, Native Language Support, in all XFce applications, even in xfwm built-in
menus.


Translations in Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, 
Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish !


Support for multi-byte character sets (Such as Korean and Japanese)


From 2 to 10 virtual screens, driven from the panel itself


From 0 to 12 popup menus on XFce panel


User configurable size of icons on the panel and popup menus


New panel design, with smaller size.


Improved window management (Windows snapping, windows shading, etc.)


Configurable window decorations (choose between 3 themes engines, Xfce, Mofit and Trench)


xfwm, Xfce window manager, now features really powerfull Xinerama support in Xfree 4, 
including automatic window translation, edge resistance between physical screens, etc.


Optionnal Xft (anti-aliased fonts) support in xfwm when compiled against XFree86 4.1.x 


A new and amazing feature to help finding the mouse pointer on a huge screen : Simply 
press Alt key and click to see a cute animation around the pointer.


New window title bar and buttons design


Linux FHS compliancy


An embedded diagnostic dialog to learn about the execution of programs spawned from xfce. 


Embedded management of standard X resources, giving all applications the same look. 


Automatic theme generator : Choose your colors from the color selector, select a gtk engine 
from the list and apply your settings to all your gtk and GNOME applications at once. 


And many other new features I cannot mention here...