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Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters, /ɛks ɛf siː iː/)[4] is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.[5]

Xfce aims to be fast and lightweight while still visually appealing and easy to use. The desktop environment is designed to embody the traditional Unix philosophy of modularity and re-usability, as well as adherence to standards; specifically, those defined at freedesktop.org.[6]

Features

User experience

Xfce is a highly modular desktop environment,[7] with many software repositories separating its components into multiple packages.[8] The built-in settings app offers options to customize the GTK theme, the system icons, the cursor, and the window manager. Additionally, Xfce provides a fully GUI-based system for modifying the desktop's status bar and system tray.[9]

Performance

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which omits many of the visually 'appealing' features (such as animations) present in other desktop environments such as KDE Plasma and GNOME. These omissions allow Xfce to run much more smoothly on low-end personal computers.[10]

History

Olivier Fourdan started the Xfce project in late 1996 as a Linux version of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE),[11][12] a Unix desktop environment that was initially proprietary and later released as free software.[13]

The name was originally written as XFce, as an abbreviation of XForms Common Environment, which referred to the XForms library.[4] However, Xfce has been transformed and is now based entirely on the GTK toolkit.[5] The name was kept, now with lowercase f, but the abbreviation no longer means anything.[4]

The first Xfce release was in early 1997.[14][15][16] However, over time, Xfce diverged from CDE and now stands on its own.

Software components

Whisker Menu - an alternate application launcher for Xfce

Applications developed by the Xfce team are based on GTK and self-developed Xfce libraries. Other than Xfce itself, there are third-party programs which use the Xfce libraries.[44]

Development framework

Xfce provides a development framework which contains the following components:

  • exo, an application library for the Xfce desktop environment
  • garcon, a Freedesktop.org compliant menu library
  • libxfce4ui, a widgets library for the Xfce desktop environment
  • libxfce4util, an extension library for Xfce

One of the services provided to applications by the framework is a red banner across the top of the window when the application is running with root privileges, warning the user that they could damage system files.

Xfce Panel

Xfce Panel is a highly configurable taskbar, with a variety of plug-ins to choose from.[45]

Many aspects of the panel and its plug-ins can be configured easily through graphical dialogs, but also by GTK style properties and hidden Xfconf settings.[46]

Xfce Terminal

XFCE terminal emulator

A terminal emulator is provided as part of the Xfce project, but it can be used in other X Window System environments as well. It supports tabs, customizable key bindings, colors, and window sizes. It was designed to replace GNOME Terminal, which depends on the GNOME libraries. Like GNOME Terminal, though, it is based on the VTE library.[47] Xfce Terminal can be configured to offer a varying background color for each tab.[48] It can also be used as a drop-down terminal emulator, similar to Guake or Tilda.[49]

xfwm

xfwm is Xfce's window manager, supporting custom themes.[50][user-generated source] Starting with version 4.2, Xfwm integrates its own compositing manager.[51][better source needed] Xfwm is the default window manager for the LXQt desktop environment in Linux distributions like Debian.[52][independent source needed] xfwm uses X11.[53]

xfwl4 is Xfce's Wayland compositor that has been in development since January 2026. It is written in Rust.[53]

Catfish

Catfish search tool

A file searching tool, able to perform in-name and in-text matching, as well searching by file type and last modified time. It is also capable of performing indexing by using an mlocate database.[54]

Thunar

Thunar file amanager

Thunar is the default file manager for Xfce, replacing Xffm. It resembles GNOME's Nautilus, and is designed for speed and a low memory footprint,[55] as well as being highly customizable through plugins. Xfce also has a lightweight archive manager called Xarchiver, but this is not part of the core Xfce 4.4.0.[56] More recently, Squeeze has been started as an archive manager designed to integrate better into the Xfce desktop, and though no releases have been made since 2008,[57] the git repository of squeeze has been active and this version is more feature-rich than the last stable release.

Orage

Orage calander

Starting with version 4.4, Xfcalendar was renamed to Orage (French for "thunderstorm") and several features were added. Orage has alarms and uses the iCalendar format, making it compatible with many other calendar applications, e.g. vdirsyncer to sync via CalDAV.[58] It also includes a panel clock plugin and an international clock application capable of simultaneously showing clocks from several different time zones. With Xfce 4.16, and the dropping of GTK2 support for panel plugins, orage was replaced with DateTime plugin.[59][60]

Mousepad

Mousepad text editor

Mousepad is the default text editor for Xfce in some Linux distributions, including Xubuntu.[61] Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor, meant for quickly editing text files, not a software development environment or an editor with a large plugin ecosystem. It does offer tabbed files, syntax highlighting, parentheses matching and indentation features commonly found in software editors.[62] It closely follows the GTK-system release cycle. It originated as a fork of Leafpad,[63] was developed by Erik Harrison and Nick Schermer, but has since been rewritten from scratch.[64]

Parole

Parole 1.0.5 (2019–11)[65]
Parole 1.0.5

Parole is a simple media player based on the GStreamer framework. It is designed with simplicity, speed and resource usage in mind, and is part of the Xfce Goodies[66] and uses at least three libraries from the Xfce project (libxfce4ui, libxfce4util, and libxfconf).[67]

It is similar to GNOME Videos, but it has some advantages and disadvantages compared to it:

Advantages
  • It has (X11/XShm/Xv) video output that provides a much higher frame rate than Clutter-based video output of GNOME Videos which relies upon OpenGL or OpenGL ES for rendering
  • Traditional text-based playlist on the main window for both audio and video files which provides an easy and fast switch between the files and shows their time
  • Audio visualization
  • Showing a banner upon the videos that have multiple audio or subtitle files
Disadvantages
  • Lacks a mechanism to speed up or slow down the media playback[68]
  • Lacks many advanced features of GNOME Videos
  • As of version 1.0.5 (2019–11) it cannot run under Wayland

Ristretto

Ristretto image viewer

An image viewer (supporting slideshow mode). Ristretto can operate on folders of images, and display their thumbnails in addition to the active image.[69]

Xfburn

Xfburn disc author

A CD/DVD optical disc authoring software. Starting with the 4.12 release of Xfce, Xfburn is also able to burn Blu-ray discs.

Xfce Screensaver

A screen saver and session-locking program first packaged with the 4.14 release of Xfce. It uses screensaver themes compatible with Xscreensaver.[70] Although forked from MATE Screensaver, it depends only on Xfce libraries.

Table of Xfce 4 components

Components Descriptions Notes
Catfish Desktop search
Clipman Clipboard manager
Mousepad Text editor
Orage Graphical calendar With XFCE 4.16 Orage was replaced by new DateTime plugin
Parole A front-end for the GStreamer framework
Thunar File manager
Xfburn Optical disc authoring supports CD/DVD/BRD
Xfce4-appfinder Application finder for Xfce4
Xfce4-mixer A volume control plugin for the Xfce Panel and a standalone sound mixer application Uses GStreamer as a backend
xfce4-notifyd A simple, visually-appealing notification daemon for Xfce that implements the Freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications Specification
Xfce4-Panel Desktop taskbar
Xfce4-power-manager PC power management program
Xfce4-session Xfce4 Session Manager
Xfce Screensaver Screensaver
Xfce-terminal Terminal emulator
Xfwm X window manager With optional compositing

Products and distributions using Xfce

Xfce on the Pandora

Xfce is included as one of the graphical user interfaces on the Pandora handheld gaming system.

It is the default desktop environment in the following Linux distributions:

It is also included as a standard desktop option on FreeBSD and derivatives such as GhostBSD, and in many other Linux distributions not listed above, including Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Linux Mint, Slackware, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Solus OS, and Zorin OS. Kali Linux also uses Xfce as the desktop environment when running on the ARM platform. Debian makes a separate netinstall CD available that installs Xfce as the default desktop environment. In 2013, Debian briefly made it the default environment, replacing GNOME.[75][76]

See also

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