It all depends on how you want your system If you just want bare xfce as your desktop and run all the applications you have been running. You can just do
apt-get install --no-install-recommends xubuntu-desktop
and remove those unity and gnome related desktop packages using synaptic and choose xubuntu session from gdm during login. Adding to what jpfluery
pointed out the given script tends to replace applications such as libreoffice, evolution, totem, empathy, banshee, gedit
with some lighter alternatves i.e abiword,gnumeric, thunderbird,parole,pidgin,gmusicbrowser,mousepad
etc which are recommended packages of xubuntu. With xubuntu what you will get is
- xfce alternative to gnome,unity
- thunar alternative to nautilus[although they both can co-exist]
- xfwm alternative to compiz[although compiz can be run with xfce] and metacity
If you need xubuntu-artworks, plymouth theme and even gdm theme you can install them as well.
versions 11.04 - 13.10
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OJCEN.png)
As the picture shows - "test" is a root menu which has been added.
To do this will require a couple of folders to be created:
mkdir -p ~/.config/menus
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
Next copy the standard menu template file into the local menus folder
cp /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/menus/* ~/.config/menus
Note - the stock XFCE menu could also be used - I prefer this menu so I've used it in my example:
cp /etc/xdg/menus/* ~/.config/menus
Now create our test menu - its in .desktop file-format
leafpad ~/.local/share/applications/test.desktop
copy and paste the following:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=test
Comment=
Icon=acroread
Exec=acroread
Path=
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Categories=X-Xfce-Toplevel;
The important bit is the last line - it must have X-Xfce-Toplevel as a category
Edit our custom menu:
leafpad ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu
Add a new entry as shown:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5DYzT.png)
Finally - lets use the custom menu file:
Right click Start and choose properties:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rbnz1.png)
Choose the custom menu option and navigate and select the custom menu file ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xzUUu.png)
Best Answer
Create a file named
.hidden
in the desktop. Open it with a text editor and add the names of files you want to hide.If there are numerous files you want to hide, open the terminal, change cd to desktop, and run the following command to hide all files ending with ~ :
Note: I don't have an XFCE system so i haven't tested it out.