Xfce Desktop Environment

To enable the Xfce Desktop Environment, set

{
  services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable = true;
  services.displayManager.defaultSession = "xfce";
}

Optionally, picom can be enabled for nice graphical effects, some example settings:

{
  services.picom = {
    enable = true;
    fade = true;
    inactiveOpacity = 0.9;
    shadow = true;
    fadeDelta = 4;
  };
}

Some Xfce programs are not installed automatically. To install them manually (system wide), put them into your from pkgs.xfce.

Thunar

Thunar (the Xfce file manager) is automatically enabled when Xfce is enabled. To enable Thunar without enabling Xfce, use the configuration option instead of adding pkgs.xfce.thunar to .

If you'd like to add extra plugins to Thunar, add them to . You shouldn't just add them to .

Troubleshooting

Even after enabling udisks2, volume management might not work. Thunar and/or the desktop takes time to show up. Thunar will spit out this kind of message on start (look at journalctl --user -b).

Thunar:2410): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported

This is caused by some needed GNOME services not running. This is all fixed by enabling "Launch GNOME services on startup" in the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup settings panel. Alternatively, you can run this command to do the same thing.

$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /compat/LaunchGNOME -s true

It is necessary to log out and log in again for this to take effect.

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Xfce Desktop Environment

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