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, i…

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?

Did you install eos-settings-xfce?

I did not, I will do that tomorrow. Should I install anything more?

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

[image] BoredCat: So I decided to install XFCE on my desktop, which previously used KDE. I used eos-packagelist for this. [image] ajgringo619: Did you install eos-settings-xfce? [image] BoredCat: I did not, I will do that tomorrow. Should I install anything more? [image] ajg…

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

[image] 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 t…

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.

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!

[image] 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

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

Desktop Environments XFCE

Pudge December 6, 2025, 1:41am 6

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.

Pudge