Revision of installing-xfce from Sat, 01/02/2016 - 18:36

What is XFCE?

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

Installation

Trisquel 7.0

Run these commands.

 $ sudo apt-get install xfce4

If you are not satisfied with 4.10 in Trisquel 7 repository, get the latest, today 4.12, with these commands.

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

And some goodies and Whiskermenu that is often used in XFCE.

 $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-goodies xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

If you want some standard indicators in the Panel you can run these commands. Without "--no-install-recommends" indicator-sound will install almost 200MB extra software, on a clean Netinstall.

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