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Mousepad (software) was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 25 February 2009 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

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Theme Engine

The old Xfce was modded to work on windows (libxfce) anyone know if an updated engine was every cross compiled? Liked to page from Gtkpref

Xfce 4.20

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Please review the web pages of the following network connections and verify any final changes:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q170821&action=history

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/start

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.20/roadmap 88.241.82.125 (talk) 16:01, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

To XFCE or not to XFCE, that is the question.

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments3 people in discussion

I find it strange to have a page starting with

   "Xfce or XFCE (pronounced as four individual letters)"

and learn a bit later that

   "it is no longer capitalized as 'XFCE'".

How about something like

   "Xfce (formerly XFCE, pronounced as four individual letters)"

?

(There are a few other instances of 'XFCE' in the page.) 90.33.60.1 (talk) 07:10, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not sure but I think it can be stylized either way; in the logo for instance it is XFCE. 𝙏𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙢𝙖𝙣地形人 (talk) 10:17, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

While one version of their FAQ (https://wiki.xfce.org/faq) states it used to be all-caps XFCE, a similar FAQ (https://docs.xfce.org/faq) says it used to be XFce (due to the XForms origin). While many traces of XFce can be found, such as archived versions of the SourceForge page from 2001 that show a mix of the original XFce and Xfce, there are very little official mentions of XFCE. I have now entirely removed "XFCE" from the lead section, added a source for it, and elaborated a bit about the name in the History section. MichielN (talk) 19:35, 10 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Downgraded, unreliable sources

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I found that a lot of the sources in this article come from non-independent sources from xfce.org; user-generated ones such as wiki.xfce.org (a wiki), and other unreliable, primary sources.

Some of the sources are being used to support statements for which they are a non-independent primary source; for example, xubuntu.org, emmabuntus.org, wiki.debian.org, etc.

There is also a {{citation needed}} tag in the section Xfce § Xfce 4.0 - 4.10.

I have downgraded it to C-class, because it seems to fail the first criterion of the B-class criteria for lacking reliable referencing. ozmoozmo@enwiki (talk:contribs) 22:45, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

"Xfld" listed at Redirects for discussion

Latest comment: 2 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The redirect Xfld has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 November 1 § Xfld until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 01:39, 1 November 2026 (UTC)Reply