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How I Set Up Kami, My Favourite Xfce Desktop Layout

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Kami (紙, EN: Paper) is an Xfce Desktop layout that uses Material-inspired aesthetics and Mac-like desktop layout. This article is intended to be used as my personal step-by-step guide (since I still distro-hop quite often), although I do hope people find it useful somehow. This article assumes that you are using Linux Mint 20.2 Xfce . Table of Contents Pulling In the Prerequisites Setting Up the Layout Automating the Above Process Pulling In the Prerequisites Adding the PPAs Most of the prerequisites are already available on Linux Mint's official repositories; some other, however, needs to be pulled in from external repositories. To add the repositories, launch your favourite terminal application and execute the following command: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:snwh/ppa && sudo apt update Installing the Packages Now that the system knows where to pull the packages from, it's time to install them. Still on your favourite terminal application, execute the following comma