{"id":1159,"date":"2016-09-29T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:56:15","slug":"replacing-unity-with-xfce-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/replacing-unity-with-xfce-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Unity with XFCE in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what I do as soon as I install a new Ubuntu instance: I remove unity desktop and replace it with XFCE. And if you want to do the same it&#8217;s pretty straightforward. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Perform all of these as root in a terminal window, or prepend with sudo. (Look elsewhere for GUI steps \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Update your repos:\n<pre>apt-get update<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Uninstall Unity and ubuntu-desktop:\n<pre>apt-get purge ubuntu-desktop unity-*<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Install XFCE Desktop environment:\n<pre>apt-get install xubuntu-desktop<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restart lightdm:\n<pre>\/etc\/init.d\/lightdm restart<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Voil\u00e0! You&#8217;re using XFCE desktop! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what I do as soon as I install a new Ubuntu instance: I remove unity desktop and replace it with XFCE. And if you want to do the same it&#8217;s pretty straightforward. \ud83d\ude09 Perform all of these as root in a terminal window, or prepend with sudo. (Look elsewhere for GUI steps \ud83d\ude42 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/replacing-unity-with-xfce-in-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replacing Unity with XFCE in Ubuntu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,11,59,9,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}