How to Customize XFCE - XFCE Customization - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Peter
Here some advice for beginning Linux/XFCE users. If you like certain icons then you can download those via the GUI-tool. I recommend the Vibrancy dark icons. I chose Matcha Dark Azul as colors (satsfied with it, no issues so far) and I chose Vibrancy Colors NonMono Dark as icons. I use the Breeze Snow mouse cursor/pointer, you might prefer the Breeze (black) if you don' t use a dark theme. Try it ou, I think that many of you would like this setup. There are two reasons why a dark theme is so nice in my opinion:
- less blue light which doesn't 'hurt' the eyes and doesn't disturb your sleep pattern as much
- it makes the content pop more
I also highly recommend for XFCE to dump Thunar immediately. Try out PCmanfm instead, or try out Nemo (Thunar with dual pane, it sucks a bit less). Dolphin is great too but a bit slower with loading. You can use a lot of shortcuts for both the desktop and programs. Use those and it gets a lot easier to do many things.
For Manjaro I also recommend to blacklist the PC speaker (easy to do if you look it up on the Archwiki). If you don't then you will hear some annoying sounds if you have one (for example in Firefox).
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Here some advice for beginning Linux/XFCE users. If you like certain icons then you can download those via the GUI-tool. I recommend the Vibrancy dark icons. I chose Matcha Dark Azul as colors (satsfied with it, no issues so far) and I chose Vibrancy Colors NonMono Dark as icons. I use the Breeze Snow mouse cursor/pointer, you might prefer the Breeze (black) if you don' t use a dark theme. Try it ou, I think that many of you would like this setup. There are two reasons why a dark theme is so nice in my opinion:
- less blue light which doesn't 'hurt' the eyes and doesn't disturb your sleep pattern as much
- it makes the content pop more
I also highly recommend for XFCE to dump Thunar immediately. Try out PCmanfm instead, or try out Nemo (Thunar with dual pane, it sucks a bit less). Dolphin is great too but a bit slower with loading. You can use a lot of shortcuts for both the desktop and programs. Use those and it gets a lot easier to do many things.
For Manjaro I also recommend to blacklist the PC speaker (easy to do if you look it up on the Archwiki). If you don't then you will hear some annoying sounds if you have one (for example in Firefox).
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Aitch
I guess xubuntu must not keep XFCE as up-to-date as your setup, because mine (XFCE 4.12) is missing some things like the ability to remove text labels from the whisker menu category list. On the plus side, it does come with a whole bunch of plugins (like whisker) already installed, which is nice :-) I think the plugin (at least, I think it's a plugin, it may just be part of XFCE) I use most often is the directory menu, which puts a single folder icon on the panel, giving me access to a dropdown tree of all my drives and folders. Well, that and the guake terminal, which I use ALL the time. Very handy.
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I guess xubuntu must not keep XFCE as up-to-date as your setup, because mine (XFCE 4.12) is missing some things like the ability to remove text labels from the whisker menu category list. On the plus side, it does come with a whole bunch of plugins (like whisker) already installed, which is nice :-) I think the plugin (at least, I think it's a plugin, it may just be part of XFCE) I use most often is the directory menu, which puts a single folder icon on the panel, giving me access to a dropdown tree of all my drives and folders. Well, that and the guake terminal, which I use ALL the time. Very handy.
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Josh
Whisker menu is prompt on log out any way with all your commands in the box. You do not have to add suspend and all that. Under behavior you leave the show confirmation checked and all those things will pop up for you so you can just have the logout button there and then when it prompts you can check which ever one. You want clean then that gets rid of all those but one . Looks like you forgot the pamac-app-tray-indicator and menulibre lets you completely customize the menus by right clicking.
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Whisker menu is prompt on log out any way with all your commands in the box. You do not have to add suspend and all that. Under behavior you leave the show confirmation checked and all those things will pop up for you so you can just have the logout button there and then when it prompts you can check which ever one. You want clean then that gets rid of all those but one . Looks like you forgot the pamac-app-tray-indicator and menulibre lets you completely customize the menus by right clicking.
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Chad
After being outsourced I had to send my loaded Dell back to my employer and was left with an HP dual-core netbook and decided to load Xubunut on it and it runs amazing. i loaded plank to make it a little more slick looking and give me an alternate launcher to the panel bar at the top. XFCE is everything you need and nothing you don't.
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After being outsourced I had to send my loaded Dell back to my employer and was left with an HP dual-core netbook and decided to load Xubunut on it and it runs amazing. i loaded plank to make it a little more slick looking and give me an alternate launcher to the panel bar at the top. XFCE is everything you need and nothing you don't.
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Rich
I now use Manjaro XFCE. I can't customize touchpad options too much like I could in Gnome edition.. any suggested plug-ins? I want double finger click to be right click and triple finger to be middle click, as well as double finger scroll (i do have the scroll options already but not the click).
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I now use Manjaro XFCE. I can't customize touchpad options too much like I could in Gnome edition.. any suggested plug-ins? I want double finger click to be right click and triple finger to be middle click, as well as double finger scroll (i do have the scroll options already but not the click).
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Akantor
Thanks for this, might switch from cinnamon to xfce, although cinnamon runs good with my ancient dual core 2.2GHz and 4GB ram it becomes a bit taxing when doing several things, need something more lightweight, this guide still applies to most recent xfce releases like linux mint 19.3 ?
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Thanks for this, might switch from cinnamon to xfce, although cinnamon runs good with my ancient dual core 2.2GHz and 4GB ram it becomes a bit taxing when doing several things, need something more lightweight, this guide still applies to most recent xfce releases like linux mint 19.3 ?
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Andreas
Great video, but there are a few ways you could have left your audience on the path that makes XFCE one of the most productive surfaces. For example, you can add starters to the bar and add a drop-town terminal by setting a command, etc.
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Great video, but there are a few ways you could have left your audience on the path that makes XFCE one of the most productive surfaces. For example, you can add starters to the bar and add a drop-town terminal by setting a command, etc.
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Xeno
Can you check Bedrock Linux? Reading the home page it looks like Bedrock Linux turns your Linux distro in such a way that it can have access to wide range of repositories. For example, Ubuntu can have access to Arch repos and AUR.
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Can you check Bedrock Linux? Reading the home page it looks like Bedrock Linux turns your Linux distro in such a way that it can have access to wide range of repositories. For example, Ubuntu can have access to Arch repos and AUR.
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presh
I'm using kde currently and I'm currently thinking of switching to xfce as its somewhat similar.
I wanna switch cos kde is buggy and slow and I heard xfce is more stable and faster and uses less resources, is that true?
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I'm using kde currently and I'm currently thinking of switching to xfce as its somewhat similar.
I wanna switch cos kde is buggy and slow and I heard xfce is more stable and faster and uses less resources, is that true?
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TN.
Xfce was my #1 desktop for a couple years. Now that KDE has their act more together I'm all in with it. KDE Neon is my Distro of choice now and I've used just about everything you can think of over the last 7 years.
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Xfce was my #1 desktop for a couple years. Now that KDE has their act more together I'm all in with it. KDE Neon is my Distro of choice now and I've used just about everything you can think of over the last 7 years.
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