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While the word 'simply' is usually added to encourage readers, it often has the opposite effect and may even appear condescending, especially when the reader runs into trouble trying to apply the suggestions from the documentation. It is almost always an improvement to simply drop the word from the sentence. (there are more possible improvements like this, we can apply those in separate PRs)
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Xfce Desktop Environment
To enable the Xfce Desktop Environment, set
services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable = true;
services.xserver.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.