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The Xfce project contains several separated projects for each part of the desktop. Every project has it's own project page to give some more information.

Core Components

Window Manager

It manages the placement of application windows on the screen, provides window decorations and manages workspaces or virtual desktops.

Panel

The Xfce 4 panel is part of the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and features program launchers, panel menus, a clock, a desktop switcher and more.

Desktop Manager

This program sets the background image and provides a root window menu, desktop icons or minimized icons and a windows list.

Session Manager

The session manager controls the startup and shutdown of the Xfce Desktop Environment.

Printing Helper

Provides a graphical frontend for printing. Xfprint can use either CUPS, BSD-LPR or a file as destination, and printers are retrieved from the printing system you choosed.

Settings Manager

This is the Xfce configuration system and it runs on the background and provides global settings information to other Xfce components

Utilities and Scripts

Essential utilities and scripts. Provides an "about" dialog, a run dialog and several important scripts that are used by other packages.

Xfce Libraries

The three base libraries of Xfce (libxfcegui4, libxfce4mcs and libxfce4utils) are used by almost any Xfce application.

Applications

Mousepad Mousepad is a text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad. The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons.	InstallIt InstallIt is the official approach of transforming the famous Xfce installer into a more generic software management and installation tool. It is written in Python using Python-GTK.	Terminal Terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarly for the Xfce desktop environment.
Thunar Filemanager Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use.	Xfburn Xfburn is a frontend burning application that uses cdrtools (cdrecord, cdrdao, mkisofs) to create and burn CD's and DVD's.	Orage A simple calendar application with reminders.
Application Finder Allows you to search, launch and find information about applications installed on your system.	Volume Control A volume control for the panel. It includes a mixer dialog which supports ALSA, OSS and Sun audio.	Xfce4 Terminal A lightweight terminal emulator for Xfce 4.
Xfmedia Xfmedia is a simple, easy-to-use media player based on the xine engine. The GTK+ GUI focuses on playing and managing audio files, but, being based on xine, supports video as well.	Archive Manager Xarchiver is a GTK+2 only frontend to 7z, zip, rar, tar, bzip2, gzip, arj and rpm.	Image Viewer Ristretto is a lightweight image viewer.