![]() įourdan continued developing the project and in 1998, Xfce 2 was released with the first version of Xfce's window manager, Xfwm. Olivier Fourdan released the program, which was just a simple taskbar, on SunSITE. Xfce began as a simple project created with XForms. The Slackware Linux distribution has nicknamed Xfce the "Cholesterol Free Desktop Environment", a loose interpretation of the initialism. The developers' current stance is that the initialism no longer stands for anything specific after noting this, the FAQ on the Xfce Wiki comments "(suggestion: X Freakin' Cool Environment)". The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as "XFCE", but rather as "Xfce". The name "XFCE" was originally an initialism for " XForms Common Environment", but since that time it has been rewritten twice and no longer uses the XForms toolkit. However, over time, Xfce diverged from CDE and now stands on its own. The first release of Xfce was in early 1997. Olivier Fourdan started the project in late 1996 as a Linux version of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a Unix desktop environment that was initially proprietary and later released as free software. Xfce does not feature any desktop animations, but Xfwm supports compositing. Its configuration is entirely mouse-driven, with the configuration files hidden from the casual user. It uses the Xfwm window manager, described below. Like GNOME, Xfce is based on the GTK toolkit, but it is not a GNOME fork. ![]() Another priority of Xfce is adherence to standards, specifically those defined at. ![]() ![]() It consists of separately packaged parts that together provide all functions of the desktop environment, but can be selected in subsets to suit user needs and preference. Xfce embodies the traditional Unix philosophy of modularity and re-usability. Xfce aims to be fast and lightweight while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Xfce or XFCE (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
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