What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of my glasses.
The second shortcoming of Xfce is (at least by it's defaults) that little attention seems to have been given to the convenient possibilties of the keyboard; once your fingers know their handling, they operate independently of your brain, and you can focus on your problems instead of being permanently distracted by those positioning demands of your mouse. Another exemplary feature of Icewm that I would like to find again under Xfce, are those 3 tiny 5mm-squares(!) placed next to the digital clock into the toolbar, showing permanently the main activities of the system, each using specially coloured top-down rsp. bottom-up indexes: Square One shows the load of CPU, HDD and RAM. Square Two shows (if active) both, the sending and receiving load of LAN. Square Three shows (if active) both, the sending and receiving load of WAN (including modem activities). Alltogether, they use up just 2 cm of the toolbar, yet giving instantly a detailed insight of all important system activities - and problems. (The main drawbck of Icewm: You don't get just pampered with all those multimedia goodies allowing you to operate sound, video etc. without understanding much of what's going on under the hood.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150305122250.ga10...@fok02.laje.edewe.de