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Profile Manager

The Xfce4-profile-manager can be used to configure, apply, import and export 'settings-profiles'. These profiles contain settings of different applications across the spectrum of the xfce desktop.

Rationale

Xfce can be quite complicated to configure. There are nearly endless possibilities, but this can mean a problem to new users. Especially if you want to configure xfce for a specific task, it can be difficult to configure xfce for a specific task. (Like a kiosk, or a goal others have already spent a lot of time on creating.

The profile-manager allows users to share their settings, export profiles and re-use them on different systems. Also, distributions can provide profiles specifically tailored for specific use-cases. Like a 'thin' profile that disables all the fancy resource-intensive settings, and a 'fat' profile that has all the pretty gui-stuff people love these days.

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