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Install XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu

Posted by Admin on October 18th, 2006

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Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.Xfce is an easy to use and easy-to-configure environment for X11 based on GTK2. A priority is adherence to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org.


Install XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu

If you want to install XFCE desktop in your ubuntu machine run the following command

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

This will start the installation of all the required packages you can see this in the following screen

Once it finish the installation you need to logout from System -> Quit you should see the following screen here you need to click on Log Out

Once you are in the login screen go to Options—> Select Session you can see this in the following screen

Once you select session you should see the following screen in this you need to select Xfce Session and click on change
session

Now you should see the following screen to choose you want to use this as your default session or only for this session
Xfce Desktop is Loading

Xfce Desktop in Action

I was very impressed with XFCE look and the speed of my XFCE desktop this is definitely worth to try.If you want to take a look at XFCE Screenshots Gallary check here

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