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
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Easy instruction for customizing linux desktop
- Choose a desktop environment
- Choose a theme
- Install some packages for best experience
- Config something
This is my Linux desktop
My customizatioan
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Desktop environment: Xfce
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Theme ( Recommended GTK 2.0):
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Extra package:
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Dock: Plank (which is used in Elementary OS )
In Debian, Plank is now available on testing and sid only, see more
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Items in
Panel
on Xfce:-
Separator: style=Transparent, expand=true
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Separator: style=Transparent, expand=true
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Clock: Format=Custom Format (
%I:%M %p | %a %d %b %Y
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Separator: style=Transparent, expand=true
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Workspace Switcher
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Keyboard Layouts
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Notification Area: Show frame=false
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Audio Mixer
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Action Buttons
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Separator: style=Separator
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Applications Menu
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Show Desktop
4 items first in the items of Xfce panel is a technique to adjust center position of clock
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Terminal
- use Solarized color scheme
- Combine many programs in terminal: Janus
- All configuration of this section is stored at
https://github.com/mildronize/dotfiles
- More details of this section can see in [my
post](http://dev.mildronize.com/th/notes/vim-janus-tmux/) (Thai version)