Xfce, a popular lightweight desktop environment, has some nice new features in version 4.6 writes Arstechnica.
I’ve used Xfce many times — usually with VNC as the lightweight environment works much better over VNC than other “heavy” environments.
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Xfce 4.6 has some nice new features
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