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XFCE Desktop Environment

The XFCE desktop environment was created as a fork of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). Xfce embodies the traditional Unix philosophy of Modularity and Re-usability. XFCE can be installed on almost any version of Linux, including Rocky Linux.

This procedure is designed to get you up and running with Rocky Linux using XFCE.

Prerequisites

  • A Workstation or Server, preferably with Rocky Linux already installed.
  • You should be in the Root environment or type sudo before all of the commands you enter.

Install Rocky Linux Minimal

When installing Rocky Linux, we used the following sets of packages:

  • Minimal
  • Standard

Run System Update

First, run the server update command to let the system rebuild the repository cache, so that it could recognize the packages available in that.

yum update

To check the available repository on your system you can use the command:

yum repolist

You should see Extra packages for Enterprise Linux 8 and Linux Modular 8.

##Check The Available Environments and Tools in the Group

yum grouplist

You should see the Group for XFCE listed.

Enabling Repositories

We need the unofficial repository for XFCE, to run on Rocky 8.x versions.

Enable this repository by entering:

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

For Rocky Linux 7.x versions enable the repository by entering:

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

As noted from the link above, you also need the Powertools repository and the EPEL. Go ahead and enable those now:

dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools

dnf install epel-release

And answer 'Y' to install the EPEL.

dnf copr enable stenstorp/lightdm

Again, you will be presented with a warning message about the repository. Go ahead and answer Y to the prompt.

Go ahead and run yum update one more time to make sure all of the enabled repositories are read into the system.

Installing Packages

To install XFCE, run:

yum groupinstall "xfce"

Final Steps

We need to tell the system after booting use only the graphical user interface, so for that set the default target system to the GUI interface:

systemctl set-default graphical.target

Then reboot:

reboot

You should end up with a login prompt in the XFCE GUI, and when you login, you will have all of the XFCE environment.

Conclusion

XFCE is a light environment with simple interface for those who dislike eye-candy and bloat. This Tutorial will be updated with images soon, showing screenshots to give a viual example of the installation.