Revision of installing-xfce from Sat, 01/02/2016 - 16:05

What is XFCE?

XFCE is a light-weight desktop environment that is used in Xubuntu.

Installation

Trisquel 7.0

Trisquel 7.0 is based on Ubuntu "Trusty" LTS. As such, we can use its packages. Trisquel 7 includes version 4.10 of XFCE, but if you want XFCE version 4.12 run the these two commands and then follow the steps below.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12

$ sudo apt-get update

Installation of XFCE.

$ sudo apt-get install xfce4

If you want you can install some more goodies.

 $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies xfce4-indicator-plugin network-manager-plugin

To get volume control on Panel you need the plugin indicator-sound. Without "--no-install-recommends" it will install almost 200MB extra unnecessary software, on a clean Netinstall.

 $ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends indicator-sound

Installing from a Netinstall you will also need some themes, icons and more

 $ sudo apt-get install trisquel-gtk-theme trisquel-icon-theme trisquel-wallpapers plymouth-theme-trisquel dmz-cursor-theme

Trisquel-gtk-theme do not support GTK 3 that indicator-plugin uses. A good alternative is Greybird theme in packages shimmer-themes

 $ sudo apt-get install shimmer-themes

Congratulations! XFCE has now been installed on your copy of Trisquel. To use it, simply choose the XFCE option in the dropdown menu at the login screen.

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