Xfce

install

¹

sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies
# flatpak install flathub io.github.fabrialberio.pinapp

optional

Configure theme (Materia)

sudo pacman -S materia-gtk-theme

Settings → Appearance → Style → Materia-dark-compact.

Configure icon (Papirus)

sudo pacman -S papirus-icon-theme

Settings → Appearance → Icons → Papirus-Dark.

Configure font

sudo pacman -S \
	noto-fonts-cjk \
 	noto-fonts-emoji \
 	noto-fonts-extra

²

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts/ttf
mv *.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/ttf/<dir>/
fc-cache

Settings → Appearance → Style → Fonts.

Configure cursor

mkdir ~/.icons
cd ~/.icons

wget https://github.com/ful1e5/Bibata_Cursor_Rainbow/releases/download/v1.1.2/Bibata-Rainbow-Modern.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/ful1e5/Bibata_Cursor_Rainbow/releases/download/v1.1.2/Bibata-Rainbow-Original.tar.gz
tar -xvf Bibata-Rainbow-Modern.tar.gz
tar -xvf Bibata-Rainbow-Original.tar.gz

Get Chroma-*.tar.xz from Chroma Cursors for Linux.

tar -xvf Chroma-Black-M.tar.xz
tar -xvf Chroma-Black-S.tar.xz
tar -xvf Chroma-White-M.tar.xz
tar -xvf Chroma-White-S.tar.xz

Settings → Mouse and Touchpad → Theme → <theme>.

Configure desktop

Settings → Desktop → Desktop → Icons → Icon type → None.

Configure thunar

• Thunar → View
  • Show Hidden Files
  • Configure Toolbar
    • New Tab (On)
    • Split View (On)
    • View Switcher (On)

Configure screensaver

• Settings → Xfce Screensaver
  • Lock Screen → Enable Lock Screen (Off)
  • Screensaver → Enable Screensaver (On/Off)

Configure applications menu

• Settings → Panel
  • Panel 2 → Remove
  • Panel 1
  • Appearance
    • Background → Style → Solid color
    • Color → Black
  • Items
    • Separator → Expand (Off)
    • Applications Menu
      • Show button title (Off)
      • Icon → Select icon from → Image Files → 100x100.png
    • Separator → Expand (Off)
    • Workspace Switcher
      • Appearance → Buttons
      • Workspace Settings → General → Names

        # Workspace Name
        1 1
        2 2
        3 3
        4 4
        

    • Windows Buttons
      • Show button labels (Off)
      • Show handle (Off)
    • Separator → Expand (On)
    • PulseAudio Plugin
    • Separator → Expand (On)
    • Notification Plugin
      • Hide panel button when no unread notifications
    • Status Tray Plugin
      • Adjust size automatically (On)
      • Arrange items in a single row (On)
    • Clock
      • Timezone → Asia/Shanghai
      • Layout → Time Only
    • Weather Update
      • Location name → Location name → <your_country_or_region>
        • Appearance → Icon theme → Liquid Dark
    • Separator → Expand (Off)
    • (Optional) Verve Command Line
    • (Optional) Clipman
    • (Optional) Directory Menu
    • (Optional) Mail Watcher
    • (Optional) Mount devices
    • (Optional) Power Mananger Plugin
    • (Optional) SmartBookmark
    • (Optional) Time Out
      • Display icon (Off)

Default applications

Settings → Settings Manager → Default Applications.

Window Manager

• Settings
  • Windows Manager
    • Style → Materia-dark-compact
    • Keyboard²
  • Windows Manager Tweaks
    • Accessibility
      • Key used to grab and move windows → Super

Others

• Storage → Removable Storage
  • Mount removable drives when hot-plugged (On)
  • Mount removable media when inserted (On)

Backup xfce configure

git add ~/.config/xfce4

Or:

git add \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar.xml \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-notifyd.xml \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-screensaver.xml \
	~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml
	...

resource

cache

• Clipman - xfce4-clipman-plugin
• xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin - Smart Bookmark
• xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin - Whisker Menu
• xfce4-verve-plugin - Verve

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