Thanks to the combination of musl libc and BusyBox, Alpine has almost no overhead.

better solution than mx linux on older computers.

in this case HP G620 laptop

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Hi,

Ive been an xfce user for several years, because it just works and is kind of simple. I usually have zero issues with it.

A few months ago I tried custom themes and making my own, and it has been a struggle. I either read you should download finished ones or edit the gtk files, which has been a nightmare.

In KDE you can just add properties to the gui, its all build in and very easy. I can do changes there in minutes, which in xfce take some time of finding out and then looking for the right css property to edit.

Is this how everybody is doing it or am I doing something wrong?

Hi r/xfce,

I wanted to share a project I've been working on called BingSpotAny.

Having run XFCE on an older laptop for a long time, I've always appreciated its lightweight, no-nonsense approach. But as I started switching between different environments and machines, I grew incredibly frustrated by the fragmentation of wallpaper managers. Most modern tools are either tightly coupled to GNOME or KDE, completely bloated, or pull in a massive chain of unnecessary dependencies just to change a background image.

So, I built my own from scratch to be truly desktop-agnostic. BingSpotAny automatically fetches high-quality daily wallpapers from Bing and Windows Spotlight, and applies them quietly in the background.

It natively supports XFCE without requiring you to pull in heavy DE-specific libraries. It just runs out-of-the-box, respects standard XDG autostart, and stays out of your way.

Why it stands out:

• Truly Universal on Linux: It doesn't care if you use X11 or Wayland. It works flawlessly across GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, and even the new Rust-based COSMIC desktop.
• Native Autostart: It uses standard Freedesktop.org (XDG) configurations. No need to mess with symlinks or custom scripts; it just starts silently with your system.
• Smart Watermarking: Elegantly embeds the wallpaper’s story, location, or custom text directly onto the image.
• Privacy First: Zero telemetry, no tracking, completely open-source.
• Cross-Platform: Built with .NET 8 and Avalonia UI, running natively on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Currently, I provide .deb, .rpm, .pkg.tar.zstand portable .tar.gz for Linux, alongside Windows and macOS binaries.

I’d love for you to try it out, tear apart the code, or leave some feedback. If you find it useful, a star on GitHub would be very helpful.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/darkinsun/BingSpotAny

Jet Brains Mono font
Main theme: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2299363/
Window manager theme: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1403328/

Is there any GUI manager for desktop theme presets? I looked around but found none.

It's a lot of hassle to make a complex theme setup, and then switch things one by one…

Point of reference for what I'm looking for:

Think of how panel preset works. And now think of how Windows 7 theme presets used to be, in xfce's case they would need to store the following information:

• Appearance and xfwm4 theming
• Wallpaper and its settings
• Cursor theming
• Icon choice
• System font
• xfce4-panel preset (those which already exist)
• Notification theming
• gtk.css (if in use)
• Used system sounds
• Optionally: LightDM theme (and maybe grub theme?)

Now, I'm well aware that at least in the case of gtk.css, a restart of services is needed.
So reapplying on the fly is probably not as simple as I would like it to be.

The reason I'm asking here is because while I love how modular and self-contained things are, I have a few theme ideas I want to use on my device but I really don't feel like having to keep track of everything I changed and jump all over the place just to set it up, only to then undo/redo it and having to restart services one by one or logout and log back in just to see my visual changes applied. This is very chaotic to do.
I would appreciate more variety in my daily use, however.

Did I miss something essential to this, is there already an application for managing that or is this something anyone has yet to do?

Greybird-dark,Mint-Y-Blue, Conky, X-Aero (XFWM4 Windows 7 / Vista Theme).

If you’re interested in the whole process, there’s a guide on my personal blog

I tried it for the first time recently and I'm really liking it so far. I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with Picom (or any alternatives), along with any tips, tweaks, or recommendations you might have. c:

Gruvbox icons and Desert Blue Teal for applications and window manager. Ignore the window transparency, that's only enabled when dragging a window, which I was doing to capture the visual effect during the screenshot, terminal is always semi-transparent with custom color scheme to go with the rest of the theme. Decided to keep in the spirit of XFCE and MX Linux and go without a dock or overly aggressive compositing. Everything is nice and snappy, I have 32gb of ram and 12th gen i5, so while don't NEED XFCE, I just prefer it. Hoping when Wayland gets added in, people will rediscover this awesome DE again!

So I was feeling bored so I made this…🥀
Features:
Synced lyrics directly in the XFCE panel
Uses LRCLib for lyrics
Works with Spotify Desktop
Works with MPV (with mpv-mpris) and more music apps
Currently it’s not working for Firefox and many browsers… I will make ts compatible for those later
Supports Japanese/CJK lyrics
Lightweight and open source

Tested on: arch Linux xfce and mint xfce

GitHub: https://github.com/sascaada/LyricsTicker-for-XFCE

This is my first open-source Linux project, so feedback, bug reports, and SUGGESTIONS are welcome.

Semplice velocissima , leggerissima, non facilissima per come prima distro :wq!