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I’ve gone rogue, and entered the void, complete with an oddball theming of XFCE that I think you could call ‘divisive’ if you were feeling tactful…

I do like its ruthless efficiency but the struggle it required of someone less knowledgeable like me really emphasised how good the Endeavour tools and documentation are as an addition to arch.


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Nothing too impressive, been using EOS for a long time but always on Gnome, minus some KDE experimenting here and there. I’ve reinstalled and transitioned to KDE fully for my main PC where I game.

Icons: Papirus

Terminal: Kitty

Shell: Fish

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XFCE satisfaction: you have to take the oddball route [because the default is frightening], and you will automatically pull your hair out because settings are scattered in 67 different places/windows for no reason that anyone explains. that you even got the taskbar dialed in is a testament to your fortitude. I usually trash it except for a 2 inch strip of applets then awkwardly throw plank on top of it.
and I love XFCE.
I just did this same dance with LXDE because apparently my ulcer wasn’t big or bloody enough but that payoff is in the end.
—this is a lot of blah blah blah to say great desktop and man alive what is that crisp, to-the-point icons theme? edit: it was as if my typos gave a times square style concert…

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Clean

Dirty

GNOME

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I am a large fan of your wallpaper!

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If you’d like I’ll post it here later today when I get on my computer.

I’ve already shown you my EOS desktop, but since I finally booted my secondary machine, you might want to see what’s in it…

I already forgot how much fun Chicago95 was to set up. And the final result is very satisfying.

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Still rocking the same setup from Nov -2023. Still running solid!

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Couldn’t let the Destop outlook the laptop.

Running Cinnamon DE

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The icon theme remind me of what you could see 20 years ago. :smiley:

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Here you go:

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Still around, 2.5 years later, with the “let’s test it for a week in the small partition” distro.
It works, it’s minimal but “bloated” just the right amount for me and with standalone openbox.
I mean OPENBOX.

Well… openbox :stuck_out_tongue: and polybar (with all the bells and whistles, like polywins etc.)
That’s all.

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The same transparent and blurring behavior as with my dark theme.
Classic breeze icons and the breeze color scheme slightly adjusted.
Light

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So, this is XFCE with just a teensy little gtk.css file in ~/.congfig/gtk-3.0 to round out the panels.
(…just because I wanted to see if I could make it look “modern”)

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purple heart for the most creative use of their taskbar: the two-inch strips as they should be. Your teensy gtk config looks great, You are making XFCE sexy again.
edit: had to add the word ‘gtk’ for clarity

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Truly top notch!

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Trying to live in Void :yum:


I took a disc image of my beloved arch installation in case of regrets :roll_eyes:

Void documentation was very poor so I had to relay a lot on Arch and Gentoo wiki. Installer itself was great and fast as f-word.

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For those interested, the vertical panels are 32 pixels wide and this is my ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file.

.xfce4-panel {
   border-bottom-left-radius: 16px;
   border-bottom-right-radius: 16px;
   border-top-left-radius: 16px;
   border-top-right-radius: 16px;
}
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Thank you - definitely gonna try this kinda look!

A couple things I learned along the way…

  1. After creating gtk.css, the Whisker menu no longer respects the opacity setting. Correlation only at this time so I don’t really know if that’s the cause.

UPDATE: I’ve now discovered that is NOT the cause, it is related to specific GTK themes and has nothing to do with my gtk.css file.
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2) xfce-terminal can not only be launched in drop-down mode, but that mode can be configured independently of normal mode.

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