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It is not possible to install Xfce on Damn Small Linux without extensive modification. Damn Small Linux uses a very crude Xserver that is not capable of rendering Xfce. Also, the versions of several libraries needed for Xfce are too old. It would be far easier to start of with a distro that supported Xfce from the start, like Xubuntu.

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It is not possible to install Xfce on Damn Small Linux without extensive modification. Damn Small Linux uses a very crude Xserver that is not capable of rendering Xfce. Also, the versions of several libraries needed for Xfce are too old. It would be far easier to start of with a distro that supported Xfce from the start, like Xubuntu.

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Xfce is a GTK+ based desktop environment for Linux. It is similar in many respects to GNOME, but is designed to use less RAM.

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The XFCE desktop interface is used with Unix and Unix compatible platforms. It is something that can be used with Solaris and Linux. It is distributed as freeware and can be downloaded from the CNET website.

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There are packages available on the repositories that allow you to change desktop environments. Just run a "apt-get search xfce" to look at the available packages that may be related to Xfce.

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SparkyLinux is a lightweight Linux distrubition.

It has a lot of versions:

In the stable line, it has LXQt, Xfce, MinimalGUI, MinimalCLI and ARMHF version.

In the (Semi-)Rolling line, it has LXQt, MATE, Xfce, MinimalGUI and MinimalCLI version. They also have three special verions: GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue.

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