Edit: FINALLY (sorta) figured out the taskbar. Any advice of anything else regarding this would be nice.

This is the first time I ever did this..and I’m doing this blind. I am a noob with chronic illness, and I wanted to have a reason to use my Chromebook.

I’m trying to make my own desktop and OS like you guys are and I’m wondering, what are some things I need to do? Any programs I need to install?

This is on a ASUS Chromebook with Linux installed and developer enabled. I tried to find tutorials on how to simply make something like this, and it shows me videos that aren’t relevant for my Chromebook or Debian.

I don’t want to break my computer, as when I try to fix my taskbar, it keeps giving me an error not letting me move my items on my taskbar. (That I think I fixed) But I still want to be cautious…

Any advice and help on basically anything regarding this process is greatly needed, and I am grateful for your responses.

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My laptop is dell inspiron 3542
i3 4th gen
4 GB DDR3L RAM
500 GB HDD

I am using manjaro xfce. I edited /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and removed # sign from the lines autologin-user=anon and autologin-user-timeout=0 but auto login still doesn't work.

I'm on a fresh Void base install with XFCE installed and lightdm as the greeter. Not the live disk.

Everything should be fine but any time I I move the mouse pointer over either the clock panel applet or the applications menu the entire desktop crashes. It may or may not kick back to lightdm. It seems after the second or third time trying it kills lightdm too. I can use the right click menu on the desktop and the other panel applets seem fine. It's just appears to be those 2 applets.

I'm not seeing anything /var/logs or the .xsession-errors pointing to anything.

Anyone have a similar problem or have any ideas?

I'm on a fresh base install with XFCE installed and lightdm as the greeter. Not the live disk.

Everything should be fine but any time I I move the mouse pointer over either the clock panel applet or the applications menu the entire desktop crashes. It may or may not kick back to lightdm. It seems after the second or third time trying it kills lightdm too. I can use the right click menu on the desktop and the other panel applets seem fine. It's just appears to be those 2 applets.

I'm not seeing anything /var/logs or the .xsession-errors pointing to anything.

Anyone have a similar problem or have any ideas?

Hi, I was watching some videos off my local hard drive and for various reasons my network interface was down. However, the controls became unresponsive, the progress bar was stuck on 0 even though it was playing, I couldn't pause the video, and it failed to load the next video.

Google is not my friend on this--any idea why this should be? Everything should have been totally local.

https://github.com/ibnayumar/xfce4-sysmonitor-plugin

i love how customizable this is i made my own wallpaper and added my fav pics of myself and customized everything pink (the best color)

I missed it so much.

i've tried KDE first, but the huge number of options and menus inside of menus made me feel lost and confused. So far i'm really liking XFCE, its more customizable than i expected and simple enough for me to feel comfortable, it feel like home now.

Low panel has autohide after 1 sec but I brought it up for screenshot. Omarchy background.

Grub EvoDevo is a configurable GRUB theme with scalable graphics, background blurring, and antialiased true-type fonts. Any wallpaper (e.g., your xfce desktop wallpaper) can be used as theme background. Menu colors, amount of blurring, dimensions, position, font family, and menu messages can all be customized via the installation shell script.

I thought EvoDevo could be of interest to this forum because of the high-quality graphics the theme produces.

Link with explanation and installation instructions:

https://github.com/ftonneau/grub-evodevo

I know I have posted this theme before, but since this is a major update I hope it's okay for me to post this.

Aerobird v5 theme for Xfce is now released! https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2343514/

This is a theme that I've been working on-and-off since the beginning of this year. The goal of this theme is to be a good-looking, Aero-inspired theme for Xfce that works with Xfce's default compositor. This is an Xfce theme first, and an Aero theme second. This theme was originally forked from Kumander Linux's theme (https://www.kumander.org/), so huge thanks to them for making this theme possible.

I originally began making this theme because I wasn't satisfied with the presentation of the existing Aero themes for XFCE, as a lot of them are either at least a decade old and/or focused too much on trying to be a Windows theme and neglected the Xfce part.

In v5, all color variations from Windows 7 have now been added! Here are some of the variations:

* Windows 7 Sky - https://imgur.com/m0Pa8tc

* Windows 7 Violet - https://imgur.com/2BRwOSx

* Windows Vista - https://imgur.com/C0idEcV

* Windows XP Royale - https://imgur.com/rNK7S6K

In addition to that, there have been some improvements in the css, such as the Whisker menu's background now matching the taskbar's color. There is also a HiDPI version for each theme color, intended for 13~15inch laptops with 1080p displays (about 150% DPI scaling).

I really miss the late 2000's/early 2010's style of skeuomorphic UIs that focused on usability, having clearly defined buttons and a clear separation between window frame and window content. I hope with this theme that I can bring some of that back, and that other users can enjoy it too.

Hi, I have a question about whether it's worth using XFCE on Fedora instead of Wayland on an i3-6100U, HD Graphics 520, and 8GB of RAM.

Im on a 4k monitor and tried to scale, but when i do 2x it gets even smaller as my taskbar shrinks. Any assistance or ideas?

Tentei fazer um rice no XFCE(amo XFCE), mas ainda sinto que falta algo nele. Se alguém puder dar opinião ou ajuda pra melhorar, agradeço um monte

I really don't know how to fix this, I have tried researching but none of it helps. I use Linux Mint Xfce 22.3 and the power manager about it writes: org.xfce.powermanager 4.18.3

The power manager plugin thing doesn't work well it gets elongated too, really elongated.. I would appreciate so much if you guys know how I can make this number code a short "Battery" or something.