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#3 2008-06-18 00:24:22
- Xiong Chiamiov
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
Doesn't XFCE use GNOME as the DE (or WM, at least)?
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#4 2008-06-18 00:27:34
- barjo
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
no. XFCE *is* a DE; and it uses his own WM (xfwm4)
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#5 2008-06-18 07:01:45
- INCSlayer
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
it is however based on the gtk2 toolkit which gnome also use which is the reason that gnome application integrates so well into xfce
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#7 2008-06-18 12:13:01
- sniffles
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
Maybe he simply doesn't need a GUI file manager. I know - I - don't.
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#8 2008-06-18 12:37:40
- Misfit138
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
Funny, pcmanfm looks and behaves nearly identically to thunar on my system. pcmanfm is just a little buggy. for instance, when ripping a DVD to my ~/ and navigating there with pcman, the icons blink real fast.
pcman does seem slightly lighter.
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#9 2008-06-19 01:33:53
- dabski
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
Yes it is possible; http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Des … e_packages basically just install the packages that you need instead of the whole desktop.
Like Misfit138 said both file managers are very similar, I think the main difference is that PCManFM supports tabs.
Last edited by dabski (2008-06-19 01:39:33)
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#10 2008-06-19 17:10:20
- PCMan
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Re: XFCE without GNOME or Thunar...
Try LXDE today. http://lxde.org/
With this, you get a desktop panel - LXPanel, a file manager - PCManFM, and no XFCE or gnome dependency.
The packages are in arch community repo.
pacman -Sy lxde
Then, run startlxde in your Xsession.
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