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| <span id=dark-mode-toggle onclick=toggleTheme()></span> <script src=https://birabittoh.github.io/js/themetoggle.js></script></nav></header><main><article><div class=title><h1 class=title>Modernizing XFCE</h1><div class=meta>Posted 2023-02-05</div></div><section class=body><p>This article is more of a memo for myself. Since I often re-install Linux systems, I spend a lot of time doing repetitive tasks and often forget some steps, which leads me to waste even more time figuring out what’s wrong.</p><p>These instructions allow you to get a fully functional and modern-looking XFCE desktop on a fresh install of <a href>Void Linux</a> (even though they can be adapted to work in any distro).</p><h2 id=initial-system-update>Initial system update</h2><p>First thing I tried was to update the system, but the ISO was quite old. I had to update <code>xbps</code> before anything else:</p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 style=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><code class=language-fallback data-lang=fallback><span style=display:flex><span>sudo xbps-install -u xbps </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>sudo xbps-install -Su -</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id=avoid-session-saving>Avoid session saving</h2><p>One thing I hate about XFCE is its fixation to save sessions. A lot of times I get my session saved and restored even with all settings turned off.</p><p>A quick and easy solution to disable session saving entirely is just to create an empty file in place of the <code>sessions</code> directory.</p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 style=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><code class=language-fallback data-lang=fallback><span style=display:flex><span>rm ~/.cache/sessions +</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id=avoid-session-saving>Avoid session saving</h2><p>One thing I hate about XFCE is its fixation to save sessions. A lot of times I get my session saved and restored even with all settings turned off.</p><p>A quick and easy solution to disable session saving entirely is just to create an empty file in place of the <code>sessions</code> directory.</p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 style=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><code class=language-fallback data-lang=fallback><span style=display:flex><span>rm ~/.cache/sessions -rf </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>touch ~/.cache/sessions </span></span></code></pre></div><p>This way, even with everything turned on, XFCE fails create a folder with that name and everything works (or doesn’t, in this case) like a charm.</p><h2 id=change-that-shell>Change that shell</h2><p>Your shell is the main tool you use to communicate with your system, so it makes sense to replace <code>bash</code> with something more modern and feature-rich.</p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 style=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><code class=language-fallback data-lang=fallback><span style=display:flex><span>sudo xbps-install -S zsh zsh-completions curl </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>chsh -s /bin/zsh