Rilasciata Linux Lite 7.4: Aggiornamenti e Miglioramenti per il Desktop Leggero
#LinuxLite #UnoLinux #xfce #distroLite #lite #opensurce #linux
xfce4-terminal is really fantastic, #Xfce as a whole stands out for empowering users. Compared to other GTK-based environments like GNOME or, perhaps, Cinnamon (which I’ve used less extensively), Xfce delivers unmatched granular control across its tools. It’s a philosophy of flexibility! 
xfce4-terminal, its GUI menu also allows you to set tabs name and even color. 
I like my Debian Xfce distro so much I made a wallpaper for it featuring some Linux mascots.
Vector artwork made entirely in Inkscape (with sketches done in Krita).
Download links on my website: https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/updates.html#debian-xfce-wallpaper
Currently using Xfce4 to have a working DE while I setup and configure all my apps like, Jellyfin, PiHole, and more.
I'm about to move to a laptop rather than my desktop, in the runup to a house move.
Today, I run #Debian #Stable (#bookworm) and the #XFCE desktop. That is all fine and dandy and fits my needs.
The question is whether to try something new. Be that underlying #distro or desktop.
I have tried many times to move away from #Debian. But the stability of stable is difficult to argue with. I have also tried many different desktops. Be that
Gnome, KDE, or Cinnamon.
All of these exhibit problem areas, for me at least.
With Gnome, the Files application is so limited that I end up installing #thunar from #XFCE. Plus, I have to add a handful of extensions to make things more readily useful to me.
With Cinnamon, it's largely okay except for the file browser again. Too slow.
KDE looks pretty, and some of the applets are cool. But stability suffers.
Should I stay with the tried and tested, or is there something out there that has all the features and stability of #Debian #Stable with #XFCE.
My nerd moment lately: having moved to Nextcloud and LibreOffice, I now have a much stronger usecase for using Linux in my day-to-day. I have installed Mint Xfce on a tiny shitty laptop (I'm talking 2gb RAM and 30gb SSD shitty) and I tweaked the settings using a guide, and I think it could really do the job for working on documents while out and about. I'm planning to just use it for editing documents via Nextcloud, and light web browsing.
#linux #foss #xfce
I have the feeling a lot of #Linux users don't "get" #manjaro. I'll try to explain, for myself anyway. I'm an advance Linux user, but I'd never call myself a guru. I'm not an IT or CS guy. My main interest is, and always has been, to get away from #windows. I've learned enough to break things, and maybe not end up formatting the drive and reinstalling. It offers just enough customisation to make it my own (in my case, #xfce) Because it's a rolling release, the #software is up-to-date but also lags a week behind #Arch, which is fine by me. And at this point, it works for me, I've learned its quirks, and don't want to hop to something else.
Indeed.
Aside from all of the other work going on, there is also a concerted effort to migrate from using #autotools to #meson for builds.
Walls
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First release!
A bash script which downloads the latest picture of the day from bing.com or apod.nasa.gov and sets it as a wallpaper.
Currently, supports XFCE, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, i3, MATE and Cinnamon, on Linux and BSD.
#xfce is dropping a 4.21 dev release, and all I can think is… damn, we moving fast for xfce. 
Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre – FLISoL 2025 acontece no dia 26 de Abril
América Latina, sábado, 26 de abril às 09:00 BRT
O Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre (FLISoL) é o maior evento da América Latina de divulgação de Software Livre. Ele é realizado desde o ano de 2005, e desde 2008 sua realização acontece no 4°. sábado de abril de cada ano.Seu principal objetivo é promover o uso de Software Livre, mostrando ao público em geral sua filosofia, abrangência, avanços e desenvolvimento.Para alcançar estes objetivos, diversas comunidades locais de Software Livre (em cada país/cidade/localidade), organizam simultaneamente eventos em que se instala, de maneira gratuita e totalmente legal, Software Livre nos computadores dos participantes. Além disso, paralelamente acontecem palestras, apresentações e oficinas, sobre temas locais, nacionais e latino-americanos sobre Software Livre, em toda a sua expressão: artística, acadêmica, empresarial e social.O FLISOL Brasil 2025 acontece no dia 26 de Abril em diversas cidades, verifique o horário da sua cidade na listagem abaixo!https://flisol.info/FLISOL2025/Brasil
FYI: updated xfce4-weather-plugin landed in #Debian testing today
in OpenBSD with Xfce, when I have a link in another application, including Thunderbird, those links have been opening in Chromium, even though my default browser in the Xfce settings is Firefox.
There's another place where this is set, and this Stack Exchange post lays it all out.
because #gimp 3.0 looks hideous with the (absolutely outdated) GTK theme I'm using, I wanted to change the system theme...
the issue is, I'm in #DWM on #ArchLinux, and I use the #XFCE bar, so I have the XFCE settings app installed, but the icon theme and gtk theme can not be changed from there.
luckily, I have #Cinnamon also installed, so I can log in there, use the settings app there, and that works.
why though?! #JustLinuxThings
During 1990s - 2000s I ran #Linux and #BSD.
I started my #unix journey on SunOS OpenWindows and Solaris CDE - both elegant desktops.
I wanted that sweet spot again:
lightweight not distracting or visually busy - don't give me a headache stay out of my way, I want to work high quality elegant design just enough convenience, but no more
I settled on the #XFCE desktop, which started in 1996 as a Linux version of CDE.
(he/him) 
