Panel-less Xfce setup. Kitty terminal emulator with Fish, Conky window for essentials, super + space opens application finder. Tons of other keyboard shortcuts :)

installed debian 13 xfce and a little bit of customization. had to manually convert my old conky file to be recognized by the newer version.

I installed Linux Mint Xfce. This laptop was running Windows 10 which was eating the resources of this laptop. The specs are pretty bad [1] but it was still usable up until recently where everything took forever and browsing the internet was not comfortable.

Linux made it usable again and the resource usage drop substantially.

This was my second time installing linux. I'm still a beginner so any tips would be appreciated and let me know your thoughts on this

If anyone is browsing reddit considering installing Linux on an old machine, do it. it really makes a difference compared windows.

[1] Specs
CPU: Intel Celereon N3350 2.4ghz
GPU: Intel Hd Graphics 500 0.65ghz Integrated
Memory: 3.66GB
HDD

Prototype: scheduled theme switching in Appearance settings (Xfce 4.20)

Hi all,

I've built a prototype that adds a Schedule tab to xfce4-appearance-settings. You can define any number of rules of the form "at HH:MM, switch the style to ...". This is useful for an automatic dark mode in the evening and back to light in the morning.

Each rule can do any of these, together or separately:

• Theme: switch to the dark or light variant of the theme that is active at that moment, or to a specific theme. Variants are found case-insensitively, e.g. Greybird → Greybird-dark, Orchis-Compact → Orchis-Dark-Compact.
• Color scheme: set the dark/light preference that GTK 4/libadwaita, Qt 6, Firefox, Chromium and Electron apps read through the settings portal.
• More: also set the matching xfwm4 theme (by default this follows the "Set matching Xfwm4 theme" option), set screen brightness, the icon theme or the cursor theme, or run your own shell command.

The rules are stored in xfconf (xsettings:/Xfce/ThemeSchedule/).
xfsettingsd applies them, so they work without the dialog being open. A rule fires when the clock passes its time, so a manual change stays until the next rule. A switch missed while you were logged out is applied at login.

The code is a set of patches against xfce4-settings 4.20.1 (tested on Xubuntu 26.04), and GitHub Actions builds .debpackages from them:

https://github.com/gtubolcev/xfce-patches

There is also a PPA with .debs for Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gtubolcev/xfce-patches

Sunrise/sunset-based rules are planned next, maybe redshift-based. I'd welcome feedback on the UI and the approach.

A note on why this is not a merge request for xfce main project: I'm not a programmer, and the code was written with Claude (an AI assistant). I can test that it works on my machine, but I can't properly review the code myself, so I don't feel right submitting it upstream as-is. If a developer finds the idea useful and wants to review it or take it over, please feel free.

First attempt at ricing, it was fun even for a non-technical person like myself ;) Linux mint xfce is the best option for an old MBP circa 2018 that was lying around my house. Keyboard backlights and other shortcut keys still work well.

Video channel xfce_fusilli YouTube

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRa3FXgzF-73GyU1seNRwnW64YE_Ebowr&si=GiL5fQbdvu56wi0n

https://www.reddit.com/user/pp4mnkreddit/submitted/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I am trying to make my whiskermenu appear to be floating next to my panel with space between it and the panel but I just don't know how to make it work or what css code does this

I have seen an mac os tahoe theme that did this but I don't remember where to find it to see how they did it

any help or links would be appreciated :]

Just installed Tumbleweed which has latest KDE Plasma, that has gone Wayland. Totally sucks, as soon as you move mouse, screen goes blank. So had to do ctrl alt F3 to get text terminal and install XFCE desktop.

xfce is soo cool but i would like to know how to use wayland on it since i prefer wayland over x11, im using debian rn

I like Gnome but gnome is heavy than xfce4. So i made my own panel to make it look like gnome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YymXWd5Gb44

IN DEBIANNNNN-

When i pkill it, it disappears, but when i launch it again it reappears, it looks ugly and also draws over apps so it is quite distracting, anybody know a fix?

I use xfce4 on void

Hope you like it!!