KDE Plasma and Xfce are two popular desktop environment options for lightweight Linux distributions. While Xfce is still favored more for some of the best lightweight Linux distributions, KDE Plasma is not a resource-heavy desktop either. To help you pick a suitable desktop environment, we will …
Linux Mint is undoubtedly one of the best Linux distributions for beginners. This is especially true for Windows users that walking their first steps to Linux world. Since 2006, the year that Linux Mint made its first release, a selection of tools has been developed to …
Xfce Desktop 4.16 was announced as the new major release a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20 for testing. Xfce 4.16 features include: New icons and palette New Default Applications dialog merges ‘Mime Settings’ and ‘Preferred Applications’ dialogs …
KeePassXC, a community fork of KeePassX password manager, released version 2.6.1 today with some new features, improvements, and various fixes. KeePassXC 2.6.1 release highlights: Add option to Auto-Type just the username or password Automatic database locking with Xfce screensaver. Add command for retrieving current TOTP Add …
Brief: Here’s a beautiful looking flat GTK theme for GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. GNOME is in the spotlight nowadays. With Ubuntu, one of the most popular distros, choosing GNOME over its homegrown Unity, I suppose a little extra attention is to be expected. Personally, next …
Brief: Beginner friendly Arch-based Linux distribution Manjaro has a new major release 17.0 today. Codenamed Gellivara, it brings Linux kernel 4.9 LTS, Xorg v1.19 and updated Manjaro Settings Manager among other changes. Manjaro is one of the best Linux distribution for beginners despite being based on …
Manjaro has always been one of my personal favourite distributions of GNU/Linux, it combines the speed and power of Arch Linux and its Pacman and AUR repositories, with the user friendliness and overall ‘out of the box’ feel of Ubuntu and other well known new user …
Parole, a modern simple media player for the Xfce desktop, has now reached the 0.9.0 release with a fresh set of features and fixes. What’s new in Parole 0.9.0: New “mini mode”, activated from the right-click menu. New play and replay icons in the player content …
Xfce is a great lightweight desktop environment with one drawback. It looks sort of old. But you don’t have to stick with the default looks. Let’s see various ways you can customize Xfce to give it a modern and beautiful look. To start with, Xfce is …