xfce – eirenicon llc https://eirenicon.org Working together for success! Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:20:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/eirenicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-eirenicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 xfce – eirenicon llc https://eirenicon.org 32 32 61586100 Change it up & live on the ‘wilder’ side https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/change-it-up-live-on-the-wilder-side/ Sat, 31 Aug 2019 23:10:30 +0000 http://eirenicon.org/?p=1514 Have you considered building an even more ‘custom/unique’ xfce4 desktop???
If you want a true signature xfce4 (or gnome or kde or…) desktop, you might consider replacing xfwm (or your gnome/kde/etc native window manager) with a tiling window manager…
Here are some examples (all xfce oriented). You might consider using a tiler like:

bspwm

or i3wm

or xmonad

or awesome

There’s no reason to be plain vanilla, unless you want to be. You can always have some fun & live on the ‘wilder’ side.. just a little bit. 😉

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Xfce Menu Items https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/xfce-menu-items/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:01:20 +0000 http://eirenicon.org/?page_id=1277 Xfce or Whiskermenu Menu items can normally be found in the following locations:

For user installed items:

  • $User/.config/autostart
  • $User/.local/share/applications

For system-wide installed applications:

  • /usr/share/applications

You might also check (for items that came with you install):

  • /etc/skel/.config/autostart to see what’s in there 

Be advised messing with /etc or /usr requires privs & you can really mess things up.

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antiX Openbox & Xfce Respin https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/antix-openbox-xfce-respin/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:18:43 +0000 http://eirenicon.org/?page_id=1192 I recently created a variant (respin, draft release) snapshot of antiX19-alpha2. It contains two non-antiX standard desktops:

  1. Openbox
  2. Xfce.

Things I did not worry about in this initial version include:

  1. Wallpapers: I provided a bunch. Pick something you like. I’m agnostic in that realm. I like what I like; and, I am happy to admit you should enjoy what you like.
  2. Themes: I have not really dug into that area very much for this version. Openbox uses Numix with Greybird & Xfce uses Flat-Remix with Greybird
  3. Icons: I have used the flat-remix icons on both Desktops.
  4. Fonts: I used Roboto.
Openbox screenshot
Xfce Desktop Screenshot

Here is what and how I added to the base antiX19-alpha:

  1. I added xfce minimal (via package installer).
    sudo apt install xcompmgr tint2 xcompmgr gnome-disk-utility fonts-roboto-hinted baobab fonts-roboto-hinted tumbler tumbler-plugins-extra gvfs gvfs-backends light-locker lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings greybird-gtk-theme xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin obconf obmenu openbox
    
  2. I build obmenu-generator using:
    sudo apt-get install build-essential cpanminus git && git clone git://github.com/trizen/obmenu-generator && sudo cp obmenu-generator/obmenu-generator /usr/bin && mkdir .config/obmenu-generator && sudo cp -r obmenu-generator/schema.pl ~/.config/obmenu-generator/ && sudo cpanm Linux::DesktopFiles && sudo cpanm Data::Dump && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/obmenu-generator && obmenu-generator -p -i
    

Code & changes to the base includes:

  1. I built a new tint2 taskbar for use on Openbox. (basic script included in the installation).
  2. I turned off and removed the four native antiX window managers (iceWM, fluxbox, jwm, herbstluftwm).
  3. Openbox uses tint2 as its taskbar.
  4. Openbox uses xdesktop as its Desktop & wallpaper manager (it shares a common desktop with Xfce).
  5. Tint2 in Openbox uses obmenu (obmenu-generator)
  6. I used 5.0.9 antiX kernel (because I could, I guess.)
  7. I removed spaceFM & rox-filer.
  8. Conky has s few fancy (for me) tweaks. It should magically report any active network connects via eth0, wlan0, tun0, usb0. If you have a different network connection (name) you will need to modify conky to allow yours to be reported.
  9. As for where to find each conky:
    — Xfce uses $Home/.conkyrc
    — Openbox uses $Home/.conky/.conky-startup.sh
  10. I removed Slim (Display Manager) and replaced it with LightDM

All standard antiX tools/scripts have been maintained and the antiX control centre etc. remains intact (so far as I can tell). Although, I ‘may’ have introduced a few new bugs/ or perhaps uncovered a couple of latent bugs.

Known Open Issues/ Bugs:

  1. I messed up and lost the install icon. Please use terminal with the following command for installation. (user: demo/ pwd: demo)
    sudo minstall
    

Here is the location for the download/ snapshot:

Please report bugs, problems, concerns as you find them. Here’s a place to reports issues, hopes, desires (for this respin). I greatly appreciate your using my Ticket Tracking System (osTracker) if you don’t mind–  eirenicon Help.

Thanks & have fun.

 

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gtkrc-2.0 Settings (used in xfce gtk2) https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/gtkrc-2-0-settings-used-in-xfce-gtk2/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:10:27 +0000 http://eirenicon.org/?page_id=1182 include “/.local/share/mx-tweak-data/no-ellipse-desktop-filenames.rc”

style “xfdesktop-icon-view” {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 30
XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1

XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 2
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 2
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = “#000000”
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 2
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 2
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = “#000000”

XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 2
XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 2
XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2

base[NORMAL] = “#cccccc”
base[SELECTED] = “#cccccc”
base[ACTIVE] = “#cccccc”

fg[NORMAL] = “#ffffff”
fg[SELECTED] = “#E5E5E5”
fg[ACTIVE] = “#fcfcfc”
}
widget_class “XfdesktopIconView” style “xfdesktop-icon-view”

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turn-off or restart xfce-panel https://eirenicon.org/knowledge-base/turn-off-or-restart-xfce-panel/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:09:35 +0000 http://eirenicon.org/?page_id=1144 To restart xfce panel (via cli/ terminal):
$ xfce4-panel -r

To Prevent Panel Use:
source:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38048/how-to-remove-all-the-panels-in-xfce

You can not delete all panels. The right way of doing this is to disable the panel from autostart.

Edit /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc , find the line to start xfce4-panel ,
Comment the start line out by placing a ‘#’ in front of it change the line containing:

  • $panel  –to–
  • #$panel

that will prevent the panel from running .When you want to re-enable panel , just remove the # from that line.

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