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Stonecraft
Asked: 2019-06-10 15:28:30 +0800 CST

xfce4 on Ubuntu Server 19.04. Update or bad install?

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I just installed Ubuntu server and XFCE4, however the desktop is completely different than any other xfce I have installed, with a gnome-like launcher and both Ubuntu and Debian screen backgrounds, as well as no start menu or panel. But Thunar is there.

I understand that there were a lot of changes to Xubuntu 19.04, but nothing I read about said anything about this. So take a look at my screenshot of a fresh install of Ubuntu Server + xfce4 (and a few utilities).

Note the launcher, the presence of thunar, and the two wallpapers (they are on different GPUs)

Is this expected (nevermind the checkerboard pattern thing, sometimes my graphics card does that).

Additional notes: This happened on two installs back-to-back. Also, the mouse tracking and stuff are really slow, although that could be due to having five monitors spread across three video cards, but I don't remember this being an issue in the past)

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  1. Best Answer

    You didn't install the xubuntu desktop, instead xfce4

    https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/xfce4

    which does include desktop-base https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/desktop-base described as

    common files for the Debian Desktop

    which suggests gnome https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/gnome

    Full GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components

    so I'd check your logs and see what you actually installed.

    You may have accepted the suggested/recommended packages pulling in gnome because of your provided command, esp. if you 'y' or included a -y to accept recommends; possibly you should consider --no-install-recommends

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