How I Set Up Kami, My Favourite Xfce Desktop Layout
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
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:
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 command:
Downloading the Wallpaper
To download this beautiful Rem wallpaper and save it to the /usr/share/backgrounds directory, execute the following command:
Setting Up the Layout
Now that we gathered all of the ingredients on the table, it's time to start baking.
The Overall GTK Appearance
The Desktop
The Window Manager
The Notifications
The Workspaces
The Mouse and Touchpad Appearance
The Autostarts
The Dock
The Panel
Automating the Above Process
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