By: L.E. Prechaun

L.E. Prechaun — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:01:43 +0000

For those of you having trouble or folks still a bit shy of inducing massive downloads & system changes through the command line, this isn’t very geek-like, but it works. Click on “Administration,” From the drop-down menu, click on “Synaptic Package Manager” to open Synaptic. Click on “Reload” after Synaptic opens. Click on “Mark All Upgrades,” then “Apply”to make sure your system is up to date. Click on “Settings” then “Preferences” & check the box next to “Consider recommended packages as dependencies.” Click “Apply” & then “OK.” In the Quick Search box, type “xfce.” The first package that comes up (in 8.10 at least) should be: “Xfce4.”
‘Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment…
This package is a meta-package; it depends on the core packages of the
Xfce4 desktop environment and recommends some extra Xfce4 packages. If you
intend to use Xfce4 and want the full experience then installing this
package and the packages it Recommends is a great place to start.’
Mark the box next to Xfce4 & all the other packages to get Xfce up & running will get marked automagically. Click “Apply,” close Synptic when everything’s done installing & logout. When you come to the login, click on the “Options” box. Under the “Choose Session” menu that pops up, choose “Xfce” & enter your username & password. You’ll have to right-click on the box with the gear in it at the top of the screen to add “Xfce Menu” to the panel.
Whew. Wasn’t the command-line instruction much more elegant? Anyways – xfce is a great alt desktop, faster than Gnome & much faster than KDE, especially on venerable machines like my P4. Have fun playing with it – it’s at least as customizable as either Gnome or KDE once you get to know it.

By: FireFighter

FireFighter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:53:37 +0000

Works great thank you, i had been tying su root apt-get install Xfce

By: frustrated

frustrated — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:08:02 +0000

the instructions do not work and both xubuntu-desktop or xfce4 can not be found. Anyone out there who knows the correct instructions???

By: anon

anon — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:25:07 +0000

Same problem as David.

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:46:05 +0000

oops.. forgot to hit notify of reply

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:45:44 +0000

This did not work, it still loads GNOME. I set it to load XFCE inside the login window option and it still loads gnome :s

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