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organicode

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Registered: 2026-04-01

Posts: 1

Making a Trisquel Xfce (Manjaro-style)

Hello team, I'd like to turn a Trisquel setup I have into something that is close to what Manjaro Xfce looks and feels like. Not sure what DE Trisquel is using but whether its MATE or GNOME, I simply don't like it. It's ugly, lacks some nice functionality that Xfce has, and a bit slow on the old 2Gb RAM, AMD laptop for some reason. The list seems to be:

1. Install xfce4 and xfce4-goodies...

2. ...but replace ristretto image viewer with Viewnior

3. the Matcha themes package is not in the Trisquel (or Ubuntu) repo, so MAYBE I can't expect absolute parity with Manjaro, but maybe the Matcha Theme can be scraped from an Archlinux repo somehow??? (would rather not access M$ Github for ANYTHING, m$ can quietly burn in LLM hell along with goog, amazon and fakebook)

4. In terms of icons I would love to use Breeze icons (like Trisquel KDE) instead of Papirus (what Manjaro use, but iirc it required pulling in a lot of dependant packages, so I may give that a miss, again, unless it can be scraped??

5. The other thing I really must have from Manjaro is the way the terminal drops down from the top of the screen.

So that's it, fwict. If anyone has experience with this, I'd love to hear it. My modem is out of action so I'm not going to be able to get back in touch for a few days at least (until I get a modem I'm traveling to get a connection every few days).

Thanks Xfce and looking forward to doing this.
Organicode

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EDIT: just tried signing up at the Trisquel forums but their automated system is too strict! I left a message in a failed form field for admins to come here to see what I'm discussing.

Last edited by organicode (2026-04-01 19:51:01)

vm_x

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Registered: 2024-02-12

Posts: 60

Re: Making a Trisquel Xfce (Manjaro-style)

I think Trisquel is using an older and/or customized version of KDE.

As far as your list goes, you can easily do all of that.