How do you make XFCE look good?... >xfeces

>>58884289
you try, fail and install kde. done

Use MATE or Gnome. They're updated to the latest GTK and are actually under active development, constantly introducing new features while also actually working out of the box.

>>58884289
You install Arc-Dark theme with Papirus Dark icons.

>MATE or Gnome
Disgusting.

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>>58884289
it looks good enough for me.

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>>58884289

Im unsure as to why you would use Arch for a workstation, but jesus... 1.3gb RAM used for Arch with XFCE?

I have a Fedora LXDE workstation and an Arch databse server, which when COMBINED use around half the memory of what I see your Arch XFCE workstation using.

>>58884289
>How do I make a computer OS look good

Shouldn't you be dolling up for your wife's boyfriend?

>arch

>>58884338
>latest GTK
Firefox 46 switched to gtk3 and now I have to use a crippled flie picker that doesn't even show recent files

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Xubuntu looks pretty good by default with some minor changes.

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You can polish a turd but in the end it's just a shiny ball of shit.

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>>58884406
i have a server with only a bot and irc client and it uses 520mb ram. also no gui memes installed

>>58884537
>You can polish a turd but in the end it's just a shiny ball of shit.
Pic related I presume?

>>58884514
>Greybird
>looks good
Awful tbqh

>>58884548
what purpose is the bot?
The arch DB server I showed above runs some 4chan and social media bots, but controls them locally... uses the bots to fill the database it is running as well. No IRC needed

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>>58884560
yep, xfce is dog shit

>>58884386
>Like xfce
>Doesn't like mate
Pure contrarianism

>install mint xfce
>looks good out of the box

>>58884572
just a eggdrop bot that talks and gives me ops on a meme channel. and only social medias i use are imageboards and irc networks.

>>58884660
>and only social medias i use are imageboards and irc
ya.. same here. I dont use any social media except imageboards... I do have bots that makes use of twitter and FB API's to scour social media and collect information... I just dont use it the services personally. I cant stand normie social media.

>>58884574
>implying mate isn't a buggy gnome2 clone that offers nothing over xfce
just...

>>58884683
>I cant stand normie social media.
Aren't you special.

>>58884470
>complains about arch
>cant even recompile Firefox to use gtk2
You need to go back

>>58884289
numix

>>58884289
Merenda theme
Numix icons

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>>58884937
why do people like Numix icons so much theyre kinda dog shit?

>>58884937
>Merenda theme
is that a typo? it doesnt even fucking exist anywhere wtf can't find ANYTHING

Just install some Arc theme variant and configure the panels the way that is most comfortable to you.

>>58884338
MATE looks like complete shit thought and GNOME is a mess full of old critical bugs that are never going to be fixed because the devs are too busy making stupid changes every three months just for the sake of breaking themes and plugins.

>>58884564
faggot

>>58885023
Numix used to be the hip flat icon pack that /g/ shilled everywhere. Now its quite popular and /g/, being the tech hipsters that they are, say that they're shit and that now some other flat icon pack is the GOAT.

>>58885023
Looks good desu. Why would anyone want more than that?

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>>58885256
literally default XFCE looks better

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>>58885218
Wow, awesome argument...

>>58884289
By insrallung MATE

>>58884289
>I'm running Arch, if it matters

Arc darker plus paper icons

>>58885319
Haha anon nice paper xDDD

>>58885346
Still not more useless than anything else people throw around for counterarguments.

Human gtk theme
Humanity icons
hardy heron 8.04 wallpaper

Why does everyone use dark themes?

>>58886096
because bright themes rape my eyes at 2am

>>58886119
Yeah me too but it always makes me feel gloomy during the day. Is there a middleground like not a dark or light theme?

>>58884289
I just use the Xubuntu modern.

Every theme I've tried breaks/looks bad.

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>>58884289

I feel pretty comfy anon :3

>>58886170
someone should make something like redshift but to manage themes based on the time of day or night

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>>58886456
>programming in mousepad

>>58886519
>tfw I did exactly that in Rainmeter
>tfw they say Windows lacks customization
nelson-haha.webm

>>58886119
Then turn the fucking light on, idiot.

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>>58886537

Just quick edits m8. It's good enough for that.

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>>58884289
How do you make WINDOWS 10 look good?...

>>58884289

>xfeces

fuck off microshill

with XFCE the desktop is not an issue
microsoft do not understand "stay out

>>58886688
Startisback++
Penumbra 10

Enjoy!

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>>58886701
out of my way ...
(unobtrusive)

windows 10 is in your way all the time

>>58886688
nobody knows what the windows desktop should even look like - they change their approach everty few years.

>>58884396
me too
& XFCE is rock solid, great for developers

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install wmaker my dude

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By not being a colossal retard? I guess.

>>58884396
I didn't even know suse supported xfce.
>>58886456
>Faenza
Good taste.

>>58887455
>bash
>puppy

>>58887455
OW THE EDGE

>>58887455
>white terminal
my nigga

>>58887472
>>58887471
>not being NatSoc
>not using Puppy

>>58887455
>mmx
>3dnow
W O W
O
W

>>58887543
t. Faggot that thinks he needs 64bit in 2017

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I tried and tried and tried and wasn't successful.

So I left Xfeces how it was supposed to be.
Ugly and functional.


I did however successfuly create a makeshift version of the default Xfce GTK2 theme for GTK3 to at least give it SOME degree of constistency. Normally it just uses Adwaita (pig disgusting) for GTK3 applications.

Definitely a work in progress but I'm satisfied with it so far. So far I almost got used to it.

>>58887800
Well, show us your idea of good

>>58884470
>not using the gtk2 build
Wew lad

>>58888058
recent macOS looks good

>>58884289
You don't. Use Unity. Not even baiting. Its better than all of them until LXQT becomes viable.

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>>58884289
Install cinnamon.

install MATE

>>58884289
>underage wincuck installs arch because it looked kewl
EPIC FTW!

>>58888674
Hey, as long as they're getting into linux it doesn't really matter what the original reason is.

>>58886547
rainmeter is a ressourcehog

>>58886754
>XFCE is rock solid
No. It's a buggy piece of shit.

>>58889015
I got into GNU + Linux in order to destroy it.

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>>58887003

Hope that was sarcasm lol
Faenza felt tacky as fuck after a while so I switched to victory.

I feel like I should ask here.

I know fuckall about ricing and stuff. All I wanna do is have a setup with
Minimal chrome
Taskbar that can hide itself when not in use
Some way to run programs without icons and without having to activate it in a terminal and have it take up space

How would I go about doing that?
Apologies if I'm not making sense. I have no experience yet configuring WM/DE stuff.

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>>58890559

>Minimal chrome
Easiest way I can see is to install Chromium.

>Some way to run programs without icons and without having to activate it in a terminal and have it take up space
Check out rofi and dmenu. They're both simple launchers where you can use a keyboard shortcut to run them, and then type in the program you want (with autocomplete suggestions).

As for a taskbar, there's a whole load of options, but I'm not too sure which one supports auto-hiding (aside from the launch bar in Ubuntu's Unity DE)

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>>58884289
looks ok if you know what you're doing

>>58886885
I really wish they'd make a more modern version of that. Aesthetic as fuck.

>>58891016
If I have dmenu or rofi then I might not even need chrome at all, so long as there's a way to close down programs. Does that change your suggestions?

>>58889400
You must be referring to Xubuntu

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>>58891164
By closing down programs do you mean closing them gracefully or killing them?

Either way, both rofi or dmenu can be used to run regular commands (e.g.

killall chromium-browser

). The only thing you'll be missing here is output to the terminal, since neither rofi nor dmenu are meant to be full fledged terminals. You simply type a command and it runs them.

>>58891285
The former, preferably. If I need a terminal, I'll use a terminal. But I don't need a terminal to run Firefox, for example.

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>>58884289

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>>58891349

Then I think dmenu or rofi should do the job for you.

>>58891421
Cheers m8.

I use xfce and I don't care about how it looks, the panels are customizable. I usually keep it looking a lot like windows xp, but with cpu and network monitor.

>>58884289
The notification icons and layout shipped with xubuntu keep looking more like android.

I just have a ugly setup with xfce and it's pretty good, it's close tot systemrescue xfce setup.

>>58891059
this, as much as i love nextstep, windowmaker feels really limited

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>>58884289
Install BSM Simple theme and forget about any futher ricing and get to work on other stuff.

By installing Windows 10 and pruning it of bloatware and botnet with blackbird v6.

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>>58891526
This is what I use along with Gnome default icons and Default-4.6 window manager. It was chose to look as bland as possible.

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>>58889200
What the fuck are you talking about?!

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>>58892817
>Intel (R) Security Assist
>Intel (R) PROSet MONITORING Service
>TeamViewer
>USB 3.0 Boost Service

Fucking top tier botnet kek

>>58893041
I'm also using Chrome. I don't need to hide my CP from feds, so I'm fine with my botnet thank you.

>>58884289
In addition to themes, make sure to install whisker menu.

>>58885023
i like paper icon set more

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>>58887455
edgy

>>58891421
Still here?

I got i3. I'm not sure how to remove the chrome and do other stuff with it, and you seem like you know your shit.

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install bsd/hackintosh

>>58894485
What is this setup? WM, theme, font? I love it.

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>>58894546
thanks
its openbox and 'Fixed' font everything else u cant get
making themes is ezy though so you'll be okay

>>58891201
Are all the _ubuntu variants just trash?
I thought KDE was bad after trying Kubuntu but it turns out I just had to switch to KDE Neon

>>58884289
>look good

>auto-hide panel
>all grey
>tiny window decorations
>no fancy shit at all

It's easy to tell a chang / pajeet from a patrician Linux user. Patricians always go for a tastefully understated look.

>>58886688
by installing non alpha version of Windows 10

>>58884289
remove and isntall KDE

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I fucking hate arch fags.

>>58884537
Because Linux is shit and out of touch with modern desktop computing. It failed to become the face of UNIX. Now Windows/OSX are the industry standard for developers, not sure why /g/ is so hung up on this useless server OS.

>>58891056
jesus, man. you saved my screenshot from many months ago? surprised to see

ppl who don't use desktop composition think their computer works faster in reality it's working slower because u don't ur gpu to render ur desktop u just waste ur cpu cycles. SO xfce=shit xfce has desktop composition option but it wont utilize gpu.

>>58884338
MATE is bad programmed. XFCE, however, is stable and efficient.

>>58885023
Install Moka and Faba icons, faggot.

>>58885200
>the devs are too busy making stupid changes [...]

You're goddamn right!

Ubuntu-Mate is full of shit now.

>>58894485
are you a 40yo pedo?

>>58884289
I personally use Adapta-eta and paper icons. If you haven't already switch to compton instead of xfce's compositor.

>>58885319
send gay content lol

>>58884573
shut the fuck up jordan. XFCE shouldn't even be called a DE since it's so modular, it's more of a shell since you can swap WMs and Compositors without breaking anything.
>>58884574
MATE is a disgusting mess with no customization on the level of XFCE and offers no benefits for the ""power"" users we are.

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>>58886688
use classic shell for taskbar transparency and disable their start menu since it looks like shit. Use fullscreen start menu and get a good wallpaper.

>>58899297
>waterfox and chrome ...

>>58899306
shared computer, also waterfox shits the bed when using Unity or Flash.

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xfce is great

>>58899378
i laugh everytime when i see a pajeet using a stallman wallpaper.

How much you're retarded from 10/10?

>>58899414
>pajeet
>clock clearly shows gmt time
>name is zach
do you even try before you shitpost?

is there any way to get rid of the retarded titlebar while still being able to close and unmaximize firefox?

>>58899435
i use the word "pajeet" instead of "niggers" or "faggot"

>>58890485
Wallpaper?

>>58899462
p.s: on /g/

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>>58884289
I run LXDE on my Raspbian install. Looks nice imo.

>>58884289
it's nice out of the box

>>58899713
Raspberry 2 or 3 ?

>>58899815
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

>>58884328
best guide ever

>>58897543
because windows is slow and dumb that he cant properly shut down my laptop or put it to sleep

>>58899297
is this android default wallpaper from 6.x ????

>>58884328
Is this a meme? Why do people not like XFCE? Most of the good desktops on /wg/ are XFCE. I haven't messed with KDE much but the few times I've had were a chore. Just look through the current desktop thread and you'll probably find some you like;
>>>/wg/6847578

>>58900296
I wouldn't know but I guess not. I got it from unsplash.com , the land of comfy wallpapers with low contrast.

>>58884328
KDE is a load of horse shit. I booted up my toshiba and opened up chrome , checked the htop for shits and giggles
>1.7
>GIGABYTES OF RAM USED
what the fuck, all of the themes are ugly/don't have transparency. Icon configs don't change until you log out and log in like 4 times. Get that shit out of here.

You don't, you use a modern desktop environment

Install kde, the best modern DE nowdays

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cant get the fucking network indicator to change colour help

>>58894396

Not him but check out https://youtu.be/ARKIwOlazKI

This guy pretty much did an entire series on how to use and rice i3. Good luck m8

>>58890485
Nope, Faenza is the only iconset on lunix that isn't kiddie-shit/material cancer.
>image
kek

>>58888438
THIS

I was using KDE and Xfce for years (under suse and xubuntu, respectively). Tried Unity out a few months ago and liked it so much that I've completely transitioned to vanilla Ubuntu as my daily driver. Fucking loving it. Slap on a Numix theme and it just looks amazing from top to bottom.

Install i3. Never look back.

>>58884289
uninstall it and install something else

>>58890559
>Taskbar that can hide itself when not in use
you can set your transparency settings in panel preferences > appearance to
enter - 100
leave - 0

>>58901124

Why the fuck is everyone installing i3 nowadays?

>>58901353
Superior value to meme ratio. It literally costs nothing, so it's NEET friendly, and they can meme harder.

Also circlejerking. Lots and lots of circlejerking.

>>58901455

That's exactly why I haven't hopped into the i3 bandwagon. I was able to make XFCE cozy enough for me without wasting more than 10 minutes.

>>58901501
So far following the general advice of /g/ has only resulted in bad decisions for me. So now that I see several of them agreeing on how shit XFCE is, I'm trying it right now, and stay the hell away from i3.

>>58901353
they're faggots who are too retarded for dwm or xmonad

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>>58887003
>I didn't even know suse supported xfce.
mane

>>58884937
Arc-dark, numix icons

>>58901520
XFCE was the only "decent" DE for a while after KDE4 turned out to be complete shit and GNOME 3 was an even bigger shitpile than GNOME 2. It never /looked/ good though, and it never as powerful or extensible as KDE. And after using XFCE for about a year, I gave up on DEs altogether. Now, if you want a "normal" "decent" "polished" DE I guess Cinnamon is the way to go, or KDE 5 if you want to spend a lot of time make it look not shit, except Plasma has /never/ been stable.

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It's not that bad, I just don't like the rounded corners on everything.

>>58902882
what is this style ? and still xfce ?

>>58903014
Style stolen from a top post on /r/unixporn
Linux mint, XFCE, Apapta-nokto, Numix circle, DockbarX with Splice.

>>58900271
>tfw paid $100 for my wifi to not work when I wake my pc

>>58903701
>tfw it has fuck all to do with your PC
It's your router you mongoloid, the DHCP lease time for your IP is less than your standby time, and when you resume your session on your laptop the wifi is trying to use an IP your computer doesn't have assigned to it anymore.

>>58900445
Used Xfce all last year on Manjaro. Messing around with i3 atm. Comfy. Ricing the desktop was pretty gud on Xfce.

>>58903753
Not even close to the problem. By default windows doesn't certain usb peripherals to wake the computer, usb adapters for internet being one of them. This problem doesn't exist on linux. But nice bait, it got me to reply

>>58903894
>that damage control
Bullshit. Who are you trying to fool here? You are on /g/. I've been using Wi-Fi dongles for years, the issue you describe here does not exist. It will be the DHCP settings.

>>58903921
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-networking/wi-fi-wont-reconnect-after-sleep-or-hibernation/e5c5c60a-5787-4963-84cd-1ada6317b617

do you want me to make a video next?

>>58886688
You install multiple third party programs and hope they don't crash every time you start your computer. You also pray that whatever forced updates don't break your programs. You post screens of your riced Windows 10 desktop on forums and hope someone buys into your bullshit.

>>58888438
>>58901108
Disgusting

>>58903970
Please do, so I can make a video with my Windows 8.1 reconnecting to Wi-Fi after sleep too.

>>58891574
Doesn't look like Raleigh. What's that GTK theme?

>>58893054
>I mean for fuck sake Tyrone fucks my wife but that doesn't stop me from liking black people. Prep a fucking bull.
Really...

>>58884573
Doesn't look very polished to me. It looks more like gaudy ricer shit.

>>58884406
Do you not see Chromium open you nigger?

>>58904207
Talk to me one brain aneurysm later, or two. Nothing less will make me retarded enough to understand a train of thought of that level.

>>58891574
>>58904194
Anon from 21 hours ago. pls reply

>>58904375

Not him but those just look like defaults to me...

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>>58899463

Here you go anon.

did u try not being retarded

>>58899414
That Dream Theater wallpaper is the real offense here.