Mildy: My Debian customization

Are you boring in Desktop of Debian. Here are some configurations for making your Debian to good look Debian.

Note: This post is only configuration that I'm used to customize my desktop. It isn't suitable for beginner. I may write a post for beginner in the future. If you have any question about this, please contact me following in About menu.

Easy instruction for customizing linux desktop

1. Choose a desktop environment
2. Choose a theme
3. Install some packages for best experience
4. Config something

This is my Linux desktop

My customizatioan

• Desktop environment: Xfce

• Theme ( Recommended GTK 2.0):

  • In Appearance:
    • Style: Adwaita
    • Icons: Faenza
  • In Window Manager:
    • Style: axiom

• Extra package:

  • Dock: Plank (which is used in Elementary OS )

    In Debian, Plank is now available on testing and sid only, see more

• Items in Panel on Xfce:

  • Separator: style=Transparent, expand=true

  • Separator: style=Transparent, expand=true

  • Clock: Format=Custom Format (%I:%M %p | %a %d %b %Y)

  • Separator: style=Transparent, expand=true

  • Workspace Switcher

  • Keyboard Layouts

  • Notification Area: Show frame=false

  • Audio Mixer

  • Action Buttons

  • Separator: style=Separator

  • Applications Menu

  • Show Desktop

    4 items first in the items of Xfce panel is a technique to adjust center position of clock

Terminal

• use Solarized color scheme
• Combine many programs in terminal:
  • Zsh and Oh my Zsh
  • Tmux
  • Vim and Janus
• All configuration of this section is stored at https://github.com/mildronize/dotfiles
• More details of this section can see in my post (Thai version)