/xfce-dotfiles

Dotfiles for my rising with MX Linux 23 and XFCE.

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difhel's rising on MX Linux 23 (XFCE)

Where do we start?

  • OS: MX Linux 23 Libretto (based on Debian 12 Bookworm) - midweight stable Linux distro
  • Desktop environment (DE): XFCE4
  • Compositor: moved from default xfwm4 to picom, fork of compton - a lightweight and powerful compositor for X11

What's shipped in?

  • window rounded corners
  • background blur for XFCE Terminal and all applications that uses RGBA background
  • beautiful window switcher (Alt + Tab)
  • CSS-modified Orchis Purple Dark theme
  • Mac OS styled window buttons
  • some windows animations
  • very beautiful xfce4-panel with plugins (action buttons, Verve command line, docklike taskbar, clock & date, Pulseaudio, status tray, launcher), customized with some GTK CSS

How to use

GTK Theme

Copy Orchis-Purple-Dark to yours /usr/share/themes, then select this theme in XFCE settings application.

XFCE Panel

  1. Copy the GTK theme, because all of CSS modifications were inserted in Orchis-Purple-Dark/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

  2. Install this plugins and panel settings:

Compositor

  1. Install picom
  2. Copy compton.conf to ~/.config/compton.conf

How to debug

You can use GTK Inspector for some system apps like xfce4-panel

GTK_DEBUG=interactive xfce4-panel

What does it look like?

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/17ocwta/xfce_my_first_xfce_rising/

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