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Ubuntu desktop download9/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Once installed, restart your system (simple log out didn’t work for me in Ubuntu 17.10). You can see the new packages that will be installed. All you need to do is to open a terminal and use the command below: sudo apt install xfce4 Install Xfce desktop on Ubuntu using xfce4 package If you want to try out both, purge the one already installed. There might be conflict as both would use the same Xfce session files. Warning! Don’t install xfce4 and xubuntu-desktop both on the same system. You can also remove all traces of Unity to convert your Ubuntu install to Xubuntu. ![]() If you just want to experience Xfce desktop and don’t care for an aesthetic experience with Xfce, you can use xfce4.īut if you want the complete Xubuntu desktop experience as if you were using Xubuntu itself, go for xubuntu-desktop. So, which one should you use? xfce4 or xubuntu-desktop? It will sort of change your current Ubuntu flavor to Xubuntu. You’ll see Xubuntu wallpaper at boot time ( Plymouth) even when you are not using the Xubuntu session. You’ll have Xubuntu’s own terminal instead of GNOME terminal. However, if you choose to install the xubuntu-package, it will have Xfce desktop, all the packages in xfce4 and additional packages that are provided by Xubuntu distribution. For example, if you use a terminal, it will still be the GNOME terminal. If you install the xfce4 package, you just get the Xfce desktop and some basic packages included in the Xfce desktop such as Thunar file manager. What is the difference between xfce4 and xubuntu-desktop packages? Installing Xfce on Ubuntu will turn it into Xubuntu, won’t it? Either you just install the Xfce desktop (xfce4 package) or you install the Xubuntu desktop (xubuntu-package). There are two ways you can use Xfce desktop on Ubuntu. Difference between Xfce and Xubuntu Xfce desktop environment Let’s first begin with understanding Xfce and Xubuntu. This is why I have added the removal of Xfce desktop in this tutorial. This will spoil your pristine desktop experience. This is important because if you don’t remove it completely, it will leave traces of the removed desktop behind. I have noticed that most tutorials on the internet just tell you how to install Xfce on Ubuntu but they don’t discuss how to remove it. This tutorial is about using Xfce desktop on your Ubuntu Unity or GNOME or any other Ubuntu flavor except Xubuntu. But if you see something amiss or out of place, such as network manager missing or something similar, you can remove the conflicting new desktop or reinstall the existing one. Most of the time, the desktop environments don’t conflict. You can also opt for completely removing one desktop and stay with the other one. And why just two DEs? You can have more than two desktop environments as well. You can easily switch between the two DEs at the login time. The good thing about Linux is that you can install another desktop environment (DE) along with your current one. If you weren’t sure which Ubuntu to use and opted for the default Ubuntu, you may feel like using another desktop environment that better suits your need. One of the various ways to speed up Ubuntu is to use a lightweight desktop environment as it consumes fewer system resources. ![]()
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