How to get XFCE you get when you do a fresh install?

[BoredCat]

I just did a fresh install of EOS on my laptop, with XFCE, and I love it. So I decided to install XFCE on my desktop, which previously used KDE. I used eos-packagelist for this. But I got entirely different experience. For example, the menu in top-left corner is a list of categories. On my laptop, it has a search bar. How can I get the XFCE experience I get when I do a fresh install?

[ajgringo619]

Did you install eos-settings-xfce?

[BoredCat]

I did not, I will do that tomorrow.

Should I install anything more?

[ajgringo619]

The only other EOS package for Xfce is endeavouros-xfce4-terminal-colors.

[cactux]

@BoredCat

So I decided to install XFCE on my desktop, which previously used KDE. I used eos-packagelist for this.

@ajgringo619

Did you install eos-settings-xfce?

@BoredCat

I did not, I will do that tomorrow.

Should I install anything more?

@ajgringo619

The only other EOS package for Xfce is endeavouros-xfce4-terminal-colors.

That’s odd, since:

$ eos-packagelist XFCE4-Desktop

blueman
file-roller
galculator
gvfs
gvfs-afc
gvfs-gphoto2
gvfs-mtp
gvfs-nfs
gvfs-smb
lightdm
lightdm-slick-greeter
mousepad
network-manager-applet
parole
ristretto
thunar-archive-plugin
thunar-media-tags-plugin
xdg-user-dirs-gtk
xfce4
xfce4-battery-plugin
xfce4-datetime-plugin
xfce4-mount-plugin
xfce4-netload-plugin
xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
xfce4-screensaver
xfce4-screenshooter
xfce4-taskmanager
xfce4-wavelan-plugin
xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
xfce4-xkb-plugin
arc-gtk-theme-eos
eos-lightdm-slick-theme
eos-qogir-icons
eos-settings-xfce4
endeavouros-xfce4-terminal-colors

[Pudge]

@BoredCat

I decided to install XFCE on my desktop, which previously used KDE. I used eos-packagelist for this.

Did you do a fresh install from the ISO, or did you just install eos-packagelist on top of the existing KDE?

Just FYI, here is how to change from the default XFCE4 to EndeavourOS theming if you so desire.

[How To] Configure XFCE with EndeavourOS Theming

Configure vanilla XFCE to EndeavourOS theming and configuration. It is simple to do as no configuration files need to be edited, it’s all done with GUIs. All configuration is done with Xfce4 Version 4.2 and in x11. INDEX Remove the Bottom Panel and reposition the Top Panel Modify the Whisker Menu Modify the Work Space selector Adding apps to the panel and rearranging the Apps order Original Panel set up Using EndeavourOS backgrounds Finished product Remove the Bottom Panel and reposition th…

Pudge

[BoredCat]

This also doesn’t look like what I got on my laptop. I can’t describe it, I will just send a screenshot.

[mbod]

@BoredCat

How can I get the XFCE experience I get when I do a fresh install?

I am not an expert with XFCE but I would assume that you see what you have in your configs in your home directory. The eos default configs are only used if the configs in your home do not exist.

I would do the following:

1. make sure endeavouros/eos-settings-xfce4 is installed

2. create a new user and see how xfce looks for that user. Is this what you would expect? If yes, you could either swap user names and you be done or you copy config files from new user $HOME to your user.

[BoredCat]

Ok, I guess I stay on KDE, I heard XFCE fractional scaling isn’t the best, and my monitor looks good only around 1.25x. XFCE on a laptop is great, its screen plays well with 1x. And I am too lazy to make it look great.

[SCORPION2000]

Yeah KDE is better on pritty much everything XFCE is just old and tired…sure you can customize alot I have a friend who runs XFCE with alot of his own tweaks.

But i prefer KDE it’s better made especially since Plasma 6!

[BoredCat]

Edit: I was able to make it! I used https://github.com/endeavouros-team/eos-settings-xfce4.
Fractional scaling on XFCE isn’t great, so I decreased my resolution instead and it works.

I can’t launch a Wayland session though, the screen just goes black. What could cause it?

[Pudge]

@BoredCat

I can’t launch a Wayland session though, the screen just goes black.

Do you have the labwc package installed?

pacman -Q labwc

Pudge

[BoredCat]

No, I did not. I installed it and was able to launch a Wayland session, but dark mode… just didn’t work properly, which makes it unusable. I am staying on X11. Thanks for your help.

[cactux]

Wayland support in Xfce is rather experimental:

Note that Wayland support is marked as experimental for a good reason: things will not work like you expect it to and a lot of stuff is generally broken.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce#Using_the_experimental_Wayland_support