Xfce Customization 2015 (Arch Linux)

[@futurealarms121]

Came here for inspiration, and i never even knew about the GTK Theme Customizer. That is just what i needed! Thanks!

[@ASGHDR]

better video about xfce customization, that I see ever, thanks for this. it was very helpful for me.

[@kevint55]

I am currently getting up to speed on Arch and Xfce. This is just what I needed!

[@tatsuuuuuu]

well done ! that's a good looking desktop for probably the best performance you can get.

[@kevinison3740]

excellent video!

[@midfingr]

+Kevin Ison Thank you, Kevin. That avatar is too awesome! :)

[@racingtheweb]

Very good video, thank you. I just needed to change the color of whisker menu, but I wasn't able to do that by myself.

[@guilty_p01nt3r4]

You're the best man !!!

[@JoseKostaRibeiro]

Thank you for your work!

[@chengyanslc]

Thanks! I am using this setup for my three machines!

[@Joe-mz6dc]

RIP... great videos.

[@vladimirmilenkovic6340]

Perfect video Mid. I really enjoy your channel. What this all practically means is that you are not installing xfce4-goodies package by default when you install Arch, only xfce4? Right?

[@midfingr]

+Vladimir Milenkovic Hi, Thank you! Yes. In the beginning, it's xfce4 only; adding from goodies as needed.

[@lasersGoPewPew123]

Awesome job with the video!

[@mielniczakkuba]

what kind of terminal app are you using in this video ? Thx :)

[@TJWolf]

WOW that was a great video midfingr always enjoy watching learning a lot from you. I have a couple of questions did you still use the engrampa or no if so how do you get it working. If you don't use it then no worrys on explaing. The other is the wisker menu how do you know which colors to get to add to the gtkrc 2.0 since you already know by heart and had that saved in clip. How would i know or person running xfce theme what to do and what colors to match the theme. How did you get clipit on the panel and the two arrows on the panel think thats for network right how did you get that and clip. One last thing can you show how you would save your theme to git everything you have which theme a person is using. When u install fresh copy of xfce4 then how to grab it from terminal to have your theme. Like you did on the one arch install video Thanks for the video midfingr

[@alberteineshtain1644]

how did you zoom the desktop at 0:34 ?

[@midfingr]

+ahmed alamassi Hi, In xfce.... go to settings manager--> window manager tweaks; select accessibility (tab).. key used to grab and move windows: ... I used Shift. Then simply hold down the Shift key and mouse wheel up/down to zoom in/out.

[@alberteineshtain1644]

+midfingr thank you ! I didn't that xfce could do that ^__^ really nice feature , usefull for sceencasts

[@midfingr]

+ahmed alamassi Yes. It's great for screencasts. I also use it for visibility, since I need to get glasses. Thank you for replying back.

[@sgky2k]

ahmed alamassi awesome feature ;)

[@sgky2k]

What is the distro you are using in this video and your current one. And, why not use VMware?

[@dodoslavn]

iam actualy impressed what everythign can u do in xfce..

[@gearhead9101]

great video. thank you! do you know how to make font rendering look like in ubuntu?

[@KowboyUSA]

What kind of minimum hardware requirements would you suggest using to run Arch Linux adequately for general use?

[@cellone710]

+John Ratko Depends on Desktop Envrionment. An arch LXDE setup should run well on 15 year old hardware PCs.

[@KowboyUSA]

nagius79 I have several. That's why I was asking. Guess I could just look up the system requirements to run arch XFCE. I suppose I'll have to assemble a more up to date tower to run the newer environments. It's been about 10 years since I've done anything like that. I'm a helluva lot more broke than I was 10 years ago, so was hopelessly hoping I could just upgrade some of my old hardware. lol

[@kevinmcgovern188]

My Xfce desktop only uses 350MB of RAM while idle and maybe 1GB with browser and audacious playing. Arch is incredibly light compared to other distros never mind windows.

[@acenemk1504]

thank you excellent video men :)

[@ArfaWang]

Why can't I set the shortcut with the "Open Terminal Here"? I pressed F4, but it doesn't work.

[@libertarianbear7345]

Is this guide 100% compatible with Debian 9 Strecht? I'd like to have exactly the same config you use.

[@masoudhosseinzade9621]

thanks man, really great

[@enantiomer2000]

My window theme doesn't seem to match his. What am i doing wrong?

[@snackers7]

Whisker menu alternatives?

[@henrymgray]

Its been a while since your last video, it's awful what happened and now there will be no more videos from you. I will be subbed to you for as long as KZbin exists. I hope you are ok wherever you are.

[@dirtybeak9598]

Am finding this extremely helpfull. Specially now that I took the plunge to arch. Ever thought of putting this on a leaf[ad (lol caught myself saying word doc)doc just a list of items to get etc?

[@midfingr]

+Mandril Hi, Thank you. Yes. In fact, I've made some scripts on GitHub. github.com/midfingr/arch_xfce ... mainly, this script: github.com/midfingr/arch_xfce/blob/master/ins

[@AbarSimorgh]

Thank you for sharing

[@AMindInOverdrive]

I have Xubuntu and would like to use Shotwell. But it seems that shotwell will only work in Gnome. Is there a way to change from xfce to gnome or should I just wipe xubuntu and install Mint/Ubuntu?

[@hysenndregjoni853]

I may be wrong , but Shotwell seems to only be a software that is shipped with the Gnome DE ... It doesn't mean it requires Gnome to be set up on the computer you are using it in...Considering Xfce is built using GTK , just like Gnome , you probably don't need to install a lot of dependencies to get Shotwell working ... So if you don't have Shotwell already installed , just open a terminal and type : sudo apt-get -y install shotwell and then wait for it to finish.It should work...

[@RoyderTreue]

nice video, keep it up!

[@kingfoxx6697]

Hi, I'm having a problem on xfce4... everytime I choose xfce4 instead of gnome or any other desktop environment I'm unable to control sound... the audio works but every time I plug in my headphone it stops

[@kingfoxx6697]

and I can't control the sound as well

[@MohammedElOuahabi]

lol your video really helped i am kind of new to Linux tried Ubuntu didn't like it much i just installed arch with xfce nice desktop environment but i realised i don't have log screen if i logout i go to full terminal or if reboot i need to log in from terminal and use startx to go to desktop environment. ..what could go wrong?

[@midfingr]

+Mohammed El Ouahabi Hi, You can use something like lxdm via pacman, then: sudo systemctl enable lxdm ... after reboot, select the desktop you want as it defaults to lxde.

[@MohammedElOuahabi]

+midfingr thx works. .all i need now is a graphic driver for video card do you have a way to make it works i only able to use small resolution when i do pacman -Ss xf86-video i got list with installed drivers but i can't use more that l than 1024x768..i got ati card and thanks

[@midfingr]

+Mohammed El Ouahabi Glad to read it works. Is the ATI card on a laptop or desktop? Also to install catalyst drivers, you may need the card's name. However, catalyst is not in the official pacman repos and needs a lot of configuring. I used to use catalyst-test from the AUR: aur.archlinux.org/packages/catalyst-test Here's a video, which may be out of date, but will give you an idea.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3fOeoOPhrKHqbM

[@midfingr]

+Mohammed El Ouahabi Thanks for letting me know. You're running Antergos then ?

[@MohammedElOuahabi]

midfingr no fresh install of archlinux

[@fladiewatte]

Good Vid, Thanks alot :-D

[@midfingr]

+fladiewatte Thank you. Much appreciated !! :)

[@blackneos940]

Linux is AWESOME, and so are you..... :) (BTW, I use Xubuntu, so this Video certainly applies to my System..... :D)

[@blackneos940]

Also, I made XFCE look like macOS..... :) XFCE is *AWESOME*!..... :D

[@essetee]

Linux basics: you don't need select and copy, and after paste. Just select what you want to copy, press your weel button to paste.

[@ttavyy]

How did you set your bash colors like this?

[@spencer2443]

+Kirk Hammett Usually colors are set in a terminal emulator's config file.

[@Flammberger]

Realy nice theming. I acutaly don't realy like all those GTK based software, I prefer QT/Plasma. But I just got some X201 ThinkPad, that needs some more lightweight desktop. Maybe I should give this a try...

[@midfingr]

+Mirko Neuhaus Thank you. Much appreciated! Good luck with whatever you decide.

[@archlinuxkatze1050]

very nice Video. greetings from germany

[@lastword3386]

He's dead 😔

[@archlinuxkatze1050]

What?

[@archlinuxkatze1050]

Rlly? :o

[@lastword3386]

yes, like a month ago due to heart attack.

[@archlinuxkatze1050]

oh! yea i saw the last video on his channel... ;(

[@adriannlara]

awesome!

[@Bekon241]

Another great video Mr.midfingr :) Cheers from Poland :) i must install arch some dey when i have more free time :) i alweys use fast instal distro like manjaro but i wont arch now coz i love setup all from start. But i think i use i3 WM i love terminal operation and file manager like ranger. My only problem in arch is bunblebee coz laptop have intel hd and nvidia 750M GPU and i have problem with closed drivers, Some games work witch dedicated gpu when i use -primus option but not all and i have alweys configuration problem on arch based linux witch config gpu in ubuntu all work out of the box and in nvidia panel i can choice PRIME gpu, for power saving mode or performance. In arch i not have that option in nvidia setting manager. But i not give up some dey i setiing all in my sony vaio laptop. Personal i hate dual gpu pc witch any linux distro.

[@noone7796]

Can somebody make bash script for automatically setup customization settings like that? Manually do it every time slowly.

[@sugengriyanto5919]

wow, cool I like that

[@Inzurrekto1]

Nice video

[@17Haxor17]

rest in peace

[@KillJD]

:(

[@heatxtm]

what happened to him?

[@17Haxor17]

Hart attack I believe.

[@heatxtm]

17Haxor17 really? fuck! i thought that he just wasn't doing videos anymore first video i saw of him and was very cool :'(

[@17Haxor17]

Yes, It's a very sad thing.

[@novellomarcio]

hi i yould like download your wallpaper here my pc ... thanks

[@acenemk1504]

i have probleme for instal vmware :( help me bro

[@jeandelinux259]

nice!

[@kosbarable]

Eh... he was must put all his configs and all his actions in bash.scripts at the git, not this small txt-style shit. But I must say it: His result of customize XFCE4 is awesome!

[@kevinmcgovern188]

Nice video Midfinger. I wonder does anyone actually use the high contrast icons theme, its the most ugly theme I ever seen.

[@kidfromafrica3205]

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