You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Windows 7 and the tiling windows feature. Believe it or not the very first tiling window manager was Siemens’s RTL (created in 1988). After that came a UNIX version called tAP (The Andrew Project) for the X Windowing System. Fast-forward to now and Microsoft claims to have innovated a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Xfce Window Manager Tweaks
Lately I have been focusing on the desktop environment Xfce. NOTE: You can see all the Ghacks Xfce content here. Why have I been focusing on Xfce? It’s a very light weight desktop that you will find much faster than other Linux DEs and it’s come a long way in terms of usability and incorporating [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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The Xfce “control panel”
Today we take another look at the Xfce desktop environment. If you are just now tuning in, you might have missed the previous two Xfce articles “Installing and using Xfce 4” and “Get to know Linux: Xfce 4“. Both of these articles were more introductory pieces. Now it’s time to start focusing on how Xfce [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Installing and using Xfce 4
I don’t spend much time, or give much love to the other Linux desktops here on Ghacks. Well that’s going to change. In the next few weeks I am going to focus on some of the “other” window managers…not just “introductory” articles, but usability articles and more. I am going to start by showing how [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 (and should you?)
This morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade KDE to the latest, stable release. I had grown weary of this Linux desktop because of instability issue as well as lack of compelling reasons to use it. Even so I have tried to keep as up to date as possible, in order to continue to [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Get to know Linux: Xfce 4
In this most recent series of articles I have been higlighting various Linux window managers and desktops. Most of them are old school and still very relevant. We’ve examined Fluxbox and Window Maker so far. Both of these are very lightweight and fast. Some of them are more modern than others. This time around we [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Get To Know Linux: Desktop Environment vs. Window Manager
Ever since the inception of GNOME and KDE there has been confusion among new Linux users which is which and which is best to use. The former question is fairly simple to answer. The latter question, however, is a bit more complex due to user-specific needs/wants. With that in mind let us begin by illustrating [...]