XFCE is generally light out from the box but it can be a lot more light, to have most of its functionality we need only these 3 processes running:
Code:
VSZ RSS COMMAND
14080 9300 xfwm4
23448 12020 xfce4-panel
19836 9512 xfce4-menu-plugin
mandatory ports: [thanks to
lvlamb ]
/usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-wm
/usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-panel
/usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-desktop # to get xfce4-menu-plugin
/usr/ports/x11-fm/thunar # to have
nice and light file manager
/usr/ports/graphics/feh # to have wallpaper and nice
ultra light/fast image viewer.
to start XFCE with only these processes we will use this
~/.xinitrc:
Code:
xfce4-panel & pid=$!
{
xfwm4 --compositor=off --daemon && killall -9 xfce-mcs-manager &
random_wallpaper.sh ~/gfx/wallpapers &
}
wait $pid
my
random_wallpaper.sh script:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
walls="${1}"
count=`ls ${walls} | wc -l`
random=`( time ps aux ; date +"%S" ; w ) 2>&1 | cksum | awk '{print substr($0, 0, 5)}'`
choosen=`expr ${random} % ${count} + 1`
feh --bg-scale ${walls}/`ls ${walls} | sed -n ${choosen}p`
In XFCE generally all settings like current theme icon theme and so are handled by
xfce-mcs-manager but we kill it and use pure old
~/.gtkrc-2.0 for that:
Code:
gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango-Blue-Materia"
gtk-theme-name = "Luminance"
gtk-font-name = "Sans 10"
here are links for that themes if You like them:
gtk-icon-theme-name: http://vermaden.go.pl/tmp/xfce-icons.tar.gz
gtk-theme-name: http://vermaden.go.pl/tmp/xfce-theme.tar.gz
icons dir: ~/.icons/Tango-Blue-Materia
theme dir: ~/.themes/Luminance
to end work with XFCE You can traditionally hit
CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE or hit EXIT on XFCE panel.
the END RESULT looks like that:
Have Fun.
