The Xfce 4.16 desktop environment was officially launched with several new features and improvements.
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XFCE is a free graphical environment that runs on the X window system (or another option)
on Unix systems, their derivatives and Linux.
Xfce aims to be fast and light, while still being visually appealing and easy to use and
incorporating the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and reuse.
Now, the Xfce 4.16 desktop environment has been officially released as a major update
that brings several new features and improvements over the previous version, Xfce 4.14 .
♞ What's new in Xfce 4.16? ♞
Unlike Xfce 4.14, which has been in development for more than four years, the launch of Xfce
4.16 has only spent about a year and a half in the lab, but it promises big changes that
fans of the lightweight desktop environment will surely love.
Xfce 4.16 also comes with more standard keyboard shortcuts, custom right-click actions for
desktop launchers, support for the Workspace Switcher plug-in to display workspace numbering,
enhanced gpg (GNU) support Privacy Guard), as well as support for rating apps by frequency
and recency in Appfinder.
The dependencies have also been updated because GTK2 is no longer supported; GTK 3.22 or later
is now required, along with GLib and GDBus 2.50 or later, and the LibGTop library.
Highlights of Xfce 4.16 include a revamped appearance with new icons and color palette,
support for fractional scaling in the View dialog box, dark mode for the panel, improved
search and filter features for the Configuration Manager, support for side decorations client
for all configuration dialog boxes, as well as a revamped About Xfce dialog box that now
shows basic system information.
The window manager also received a performance boost in Xfce 4.16, showing the Alt-Tab dialog
box only on the main screen and allowing users to zoom in and keep windows minimized in the
most recently used list.
The Thunar file manager has also been updated in this version and now allows users to pause
copy and move operations, supports queued file transfers, supports transparency in GTK
themes and remembers the view settings by directory.
A new Status Tray plug-in is available in the Panel Preferences dialog box to make it
easier to configure the system tray area and status notifications, and a new Standard Applications
dialog box was born from the merging of the “ Mime Settings ”and“ Preferred Applications
”.
In addition, there is bash autocomplete for xfconf-query, support for deleting paths in
the tumbler.rc settings file, cleaner battery and 'power' settings, automatically hide for
low battery notification when connecting to a charger and a new look on the Xfce panel
when “Presentation mode” is activated.
Of course, there is no new version of Xfce without a new wallpaper.
In the meantime, keep an eye on the stable software repositories for your favorite Linux
distribution for the Xfce 4.16 desktop environment and update as soon as possible to take advantage
of new features and enhancements.
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