The Unity desktop now offers another customization tool for users to test out. This exciting new tool is known as MyUnity. This tool provides many convenient options for your Unity launcher, dash, panel, and desktop….
The Xfce 4 desktop offers a vast array of customization options that will leave your desktop looking nothing like the default. Take advantage of all the excellent graphical user interfaces offered for all of your options, settings, and preferences.
Your Own Unique Creation
Users can try using different themes for the Xfwm4 window manager, or try alternative backgrounds for your desktop. There are icon packs, panel plugins, system sounds, even mouse pointers that you can use to spice up the Xfce 4 desktop.
The Xfce 4 menu is the primary way to reach your installed applications and system settings when using the Xfce desktop. Xfce 4 is all about convenience, and this is reflected in the menu structure.
Accessing Your Menus
To access your menu try right-clicking on an empty spot on the Xfce 4 desktop. There is also a menu that can be found in your top panel in the latest versions as well.
This time I will look at the default LXDE menu and how to customize it to your liking. The LXDE main menu is located inside the bottom panel and uses a very simple layout. The menu is provided by the LXPanel package.
LXDE Menu Contents
Inside the menu you can find several categories which contain launchers for all of your installed applications. You can also find all of your settings dialogs. There is also an option to log out of the desktop.
The default panel found with the LXDE desktop is the lightweight LXPanel. This panel is fairly similar to the Gnome panel or the KDE panel and configuration is just as easy.
LXPanel Customization
There is a simple graphical user interface that you can use to customize your LXDE panel any way you want it. And along with the convenient graphical user interface provided for your settings LXDE also offers lots of options to choose from.
Xfce users can also customize their desktop menus to add their own contents. This can be done manually by editing a few files, or using the LXMenuEditor tool.
Graphical Configuration
Although the LXMED tool can be used to customize the menu it is not actually a part of the Xfce desktop, it comes from the LXDE project, but the menus follow the same standards so it should still work.
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