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XFCE installation in dom0
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**Disclaimer: The article is obsolete for Qubes OS 3.2 and later.**

Prior to R3.2, KDE was the default desktop environment in Qubes. Beginning with
R3.2 [XFCE is the new default desktop environment](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/releases/3.2/release-notes/) and does not require manual installation.


Installation:

    sudo qubes-dom0-update @xfce-desktop-qubes

Reboot the system. At system startup, select "Xfce session" in login screen (menu on the right bottom corner of the screen).

Configuration
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Things needed/recommended to be done:

-   remove some useless entries from menu and panel, especially file manager, web browser
-   create own favorites menu (currently standard XFCE menu isn't modified to use per-VM subsections, which makes it very inconvenient):
    1.  create `~/.config/menus/favorites.menu`, example content:

        ~~~
        <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
                  "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">

        <Menu>
          <Name>Favorites</Name>
          <DefaultAppDirs/>
          <DefaultDirectoryDirs/>

          <Directory>favorites.directory</Directory>
          <Include>
            <Filename>personal-gnome-terminal.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>personal-firefox.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>work-gnome-terminal.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>work-firefox.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>mail-mozilla-thunderbird.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>mail-gnome-terminal.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>banking-mozilla-firefox.desktop</Filename>
            <Filename>untrusted-firefox.desktop</Filename>
          </Include>
        </Menu>
        ~~~

    2.  add it to the panel: right click on panel, "add new items", select "XFCE menu", choose custom menu file - just created one