Thursday, May 16, 2013

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

To eyecandy your XFCE desktop, you can get the theme on XFCE-look.org sites, there are lot of theme, icon, etc. Before that, you must create .themes folder on your home desktop first.
$mkdir ~/.themes

1. Installing & Setup Themes on XFCE

To Start set up theme. Find Themes on xfce-look.org, for this example, i will apply this themes:

http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=151180

Download the themes, then extract it:

There are two items, icon & themes,copy any folder inside themes into .themes like this picture. 

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

And for the icons, copy folder inside icons to /usr/share/icons, but on this themes the icons is useless, just skip it.

Then open Start Menu -> Settings -> Appearance, Now the themes is added. 

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux
Click to apply.

2. Installing Icons on XFCE

Here's the list icon that you can install (available on official repo)

And from AUR:

If you get from other sources, simply copy folder icons into /usr/share/icons,

Then open Settings Appearance, then choose Icons Tab, then set your icons.

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

3. Change Fonts

open settings -> appearance ->Fonts Tab, then set your prefered fonts.

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

4. Change Window Manager

Open Settings -> Window Manager -> Style Tab

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

To install new window manager, same as installing themes, copy folder of wm themes, into .themes folder.

5. Change Mouse Cursor

Open -> Settings -> Mouse & Touchpad -> Theme Tab

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

For more cursor themes, search on PacmanXG4.

6. Change Windows list / buttons on Panel looks Win 7 Style.

Right click on panel, then panel, -> Panel preferences > Items Tab, choose windows buttons. then edit. Uncheck Show Button Labels

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux

Then your windows button will like this:

How to change XFCE appearance (theme, icons, wm, etc) on Archlinux


Ok that's about appearance on XFCE.
Enjoy.
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