Xfce desktop
The Xfce desktop is a lightweight desktop environment and is Wolf Halton's personal favorite. He used Xfce to conserve resources when writing the first edition of this book. He is using it today as part of a highly customized and quixotic version of the Ubuntu Studio operating system to work on the current edition of the book.
The initials are spoken in the name of this desktop environment as ex-eff-cee-ee. It used to be an acronym for X-Forms Common Environment, but it uses the GTK toolkit rather than X-Forms these days. Xfce was initially designed to be a replacement for the CDE, which was a Unix Common Desktop Environment in 1996, when the latter was still proprietary. Some people might consider Xfce to be a bit old-fashioned ...
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