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mistfire

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Registered: 2018-08-17

Posts: 168

Installing XFCE on Slitaz (updated)

This is the update instruction how to install xfce on slitaz

1. Open text editor

2. Copy this code and paste on text editor

[c]#!/bin/sh
tazpkg -gi gtk-xfce-engine
tazpkg -gi gtk2-engine-murrine
tazpkg -gi libxfce4ui
tazpkg -gi libxfce4ui-dev
tazpkg -gi libxfcegui4
tazpkg -gi xfce-utils
tazpkg -gi xfce4
tazpkg -gi xfce4-appfinder
tazpkg -gi xfce4-dev-tools
tazpkg -gi xfce4-icon-theme
tazpkg -gi xfce4-mixer
tazpkg -gi xfce4-notifyd
tazpkg -gi xfce4-panel
tazpkg -gi xfce4-ristretto
tazpkg -gi xfce4-session
tazpkg -gi xfce4-settings
tazpkg -gi xfce4-slitaz-config
tazpkg -gi xfce4-volumed
tazpkg -gi xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
tazpkg -gi xfwm4
tazpkg -gi xfwm4-themes
tazpkg -gi upower
tazpkg -gi terminal
tazpkg -gi thunar-vfs
tazpkg -gi thunar-volman
tazpkg -gi thunar-archive-plugin
tazpkg -gi tango-icon-theme

for index1 in $(find /usr/share/icons/ -name index.theme -type f)
do
DIRICON="$(dirname $index1)"
[ -f $DIRICON/icon-theme.cache ] && rm -f $DIRICON/icon-theme.cache
gtk-update-icon-cache $DIRICON
done[/c]
3. Save as "install-xfce.sh" and Close text edi

4. Run this command

[c]sh [path]/install-xfce.sh[/c]
To switch to xfce desktop environment

1. logout root and login to user account

2. Go to Slitaz default applications. On window manager, select xfce4-session

3. logout then login again

About broken icons on xfce-application-menu. It is weird that xfce4-panel reads lxde-applications.menu instead of applications.menu

References

https://whaleshares.io/@erkan/xfce4-desktop-environment-in-slitaz