The desktop manager sets the background image, and provides a root
window menu, desktop icons or minimized icons and windows list.
The Xfce session manager controls the loading of applications when
Xfce is started. It also handles logging out, shutting down, and
rebooting.
The Xfce 4 window manager manages the placement of application windows
on the screen, provides window decorations, and manages work-
spaces or virtual desktops.
Xfce Desktop Environment
This package does not contain anything by itself - it is a "meta-port" that
depends on other Xfce packages.
With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like
Evolution, Thunderbird, terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature
is that a click on the "close" button will minimize back to system tray. It
works well with GNOME, KDE, XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*.
A simple GTK-2 Terminal with tabs.
Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment,
but you can run it with TWM too ;-), if you install ports/x11/trayer
or a similar program.
Its style of window is based on fps games, and one of its purposes
is to be easy to reach.
iDesk lets you put launch icons and background directly on the
root window of your X.
bbappconf makes it possible to set some options for the windows blackbox opens,
like:
* on which desktop they should open
* if it should be displayed without titlebar
* if it should be sticky
* position size of windows
IMWheel translates mouse wheel activity into keycodes for X11 applications,
using a configuration file that allows per-user translation preferences.
For more information on setting up your wheeled mouse to work with X, see
either the imwheel man page or the FreeBSD FAQ.