![]() ![]() The softwares icons you’ll need can be downloaded on Google and then added to the /usr/share/icons folder. I personally like to have a few launchers in a Windows-like style. This looks like a completely different xfce now, doesn’t it? Of course, don’t forget to customize the panels to fulfill your needs. What you need to do if you want your main folders to always have an icon on them when displayed in thunar (the default GUI file viewer) is to add these lines to a file called ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs: XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/.Templates" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos" It works well with this icon theme, and this cursor theme. It has several levels of configuration, from light to dark, each one very well explained on the github page. The rendering is beautiful, and I didn’t notice any bug so far. Its creator also made a great theme for firefox/chrome. Here is a beautiful theme, for afficionados of flat and sober themes like me. That’s why a simple console login is entirely sufficient for me. Xfce is my only graphical interface, so I neither need to switch between it and something else, nor to change the language, keyboard disposition or brightness each time I log in. I’m not found of login managers, as they tend to slow down boot time. Simply add this line to your zshrc config file, if this is the shell you’re using : startxfce4 Now I went back to a more classic layout. During summer, I ended up having this ChromeOS-like desktop, on xfce. Yet it’s because xfce remains my favorite for now, and I don’t feel like testing other GUIs, as this one entirely supplies my needs. I didn’t have the opportunity to test in depth a lot of graphical interfaces. It can be configured through xscreensaver-command -demo. It starts with the xscreensaver-command -lock command. It’s customizable and there are plenty themes available. I like to use xscreensaver to lock my PC.You can set any keyboard shortcut to launch it in Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts. The screenshooter is the official xfce screenshooter.lxrandr is a small utility that lets you configure the resolution and external monitors.Then, with pacman ( sudo pacman -S ): lxrandr xfce4-screenshooter xscreensaver oh-my-zsh is a zsh plugin that easily lets you configure your zsh.It tires the eyes less than having a blue screen, especially during the night. redshift allows you to change the temperature of your screen.Let’s install the basics: yaourt redshift oh-my-zsh I’m not going to explain how to install it, but rather present some packages I use to customize the default system. What I love about it is the huge amount of Sys Admin stuff I learned while installing it again and again, each time faster than before, and with a better knowledge of what I was doing. I’m currently working on an Arch Linux distribution. ![]()
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