Linux: The Ultimate Guide

part of DE itself, and when we talk about DE, we have to reconsider. We 
will do this through some of them, one by one.
• Thunar (File Manager): xfce’s default file manager is Thunar, a pro-
gram you know. It has excellent simple features like viewing items 
in list/icon mode, resizing objects, shortcut panel in other drives, 
partitions or folders, tab functionality, etc. It is stable and has all the 
basic features of users.
• Mousepad (Text Editor): Mousepad is fast and gets the job done. 
There are essential features for changing color theme, font style, 
search, etc. Mousepad has some features that make it suitable for 
editing. Granted, it is not IDE, but some basic requirements have 
been considered. There is syntax highlighting, auto-zoom, line wrap, 
highlighting brackets, adjusting line numbers, adjustable tab size, 
rare and excellent features, etc. These features make it an excellent 
program solution, terminal included for compiling/creating pro-
gram documents.
XFCE INSTALLATION
Since 1996, xfce Desktop has empowered users to have a graphical user 
interface (GUI), visually transforming your Linux server into a desktop-
like environment for your desktop computer. With its simple appearance, 
xfce is lightweight in server hardware and faster than GNOME and KDE 
launches. Once you are done with this bit of tutorial, you will be able to 
share and connect to the xfce GUI by moving on to the following tutorial 
on installing VNC. These commands are intended to install the xfce 
Desktop Environment on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server. Logged in as root 
user, but for rootless users, it precedes all commands with the word sudo.
Stepwise xfce Installation
Step 1: Update the apt-get
Thinking of the best practices, we will review them before proceeding 
with the installation of xfce 4.
$ apt-get update
Step 2: Install xfce4 desktop environment

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xfce Desktop Environment 
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With one command, we can install xfce itself and other valuable resources 
that come with xfce:
$ sudo apt-get install -y xfce4 xfce4-goodies
Or
$ sudo apt-get install –y xfce4
After installation you will see the first window of xfce Desktop 
environment: