Difference resp. advantages gnome vs. xfce

Desktop Environments
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Super+ right or left arrow key in gnome, the idea is to tile a maximum of two apps, else add another workspace to not clutter the screen with floating windows.

Else I use wm like i3, its one command and login/out away and is very minimal in size.

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Recursive search is coming: http://users.uoa.gr/~sdi1800073/sources/xfce_blog06.html

So does Xfce, and while Gnome has more, I’ve never been convinced that apps like Gnome Recipes are anything other than bloat.

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None whatsoever.

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I know. But I need 2x2 tiling which is out of the box in XFCE

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I’ve had a think about what I miss from Gnome in Xfce (all IMHO of course and I haven’t tried Gnome 40+ yet).

  • I do like the dynamic workspace feature and always having one more open than is currently in use.
  • More generally, I miss (only a bit) hot corners in Xfce, although with Gnome this requires an extension (and might not work for a bit every time Gnome updates).
  • Having a full screen applications menu looks nice, but is less useful with a mouse.
  • I like the clock and weather being in the middle of the top panel (you can achieve this in Xfce with a ridiculous number of separators).
  • Er… that’s it :man_shrugging:

The list of what I miss from Xfce in Gnome would be much longer.

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Didn’t know, how do you tile in xfce?

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KDE users are not allowed to answer :grin:

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I only use gnome because of gaculator, lol

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I’m somewhat ashamed to admit it, but since we are sharing our dirty laundry here, when I need to quickly calculate something, I sometimes use NodeJS. :fearful:

🐸 node
Welcome to Node.js v16.10.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
> 3*3*Math.PI
28.274333882308138
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Sorry, I only have this in german. But it is in the “Windowmanagement” settings. XFCE can tile windows in each corner of the screen 2x2 and half screen left, half screen right, half screen top and half screen bottom.

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In English (with different keyboard shortcuts) here:

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:+1: easy peasy!

I also speak German and French :wink:

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You could use python in the terminal.

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Yeah, same :poop: I also programmed a nice recursive descent parser calculator in C++. But, for some reason, I always use node.

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Mon français est mal et mein Deutsch ist kaputt :frowning_face:

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Maybe I’m getting old, but the comments about the direction that Gnome is taking sound a lot like the ones that people made about Ubuntu’s move to Unity back in the day.

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Gnome handles display color profiles better than XFCE if that’s important to you.

Many people aren’t but if you’re into Wayland Gnome is one of the best ways to use it next to what I hear is a great implementation in i3+sway.

That’s a couple that are important to me. I mostly stopped with XFCE because I found color management a hassle. They’ve improved it some since.

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I use them on KDE and Cinnamon with touche/touchegg. I love the swipe between virtual desktops

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Thanks @fbodymechanic!

I did install these two packages from AUR in my KDE install a while ago after you mentioned it in some thread somewhere in the forum. Honestly, I never got to configure them properly and use the gestures since I haven’t booted into KDE for a while. I will give it a shot again this weekend.

I have however used another pair of packages from AUR in Cinnamon: libinput-gestures and gestures
It works rather nicely for swiping between workspaces and bring up an overview of all the workspaces etc.

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That is indeed an important point for me. I do photography and photo editing with darktable and gimp. I try to use color profiles wherever possible. I will certanly check if gnome improves that for me. Thanks for mentioning.