Customizing Debian 12 and MX 23: My own experience
As in past years, and after a reasonable amount of time has passed since the launch of the new stable version of GNU / Linux distribution, which this year has been Debian 12, and several of the respective GNU/Linux Distros based on it, such as MX 23, antiX 23 among many others; We have already made our respective tutorials on which packages to install on Debian, MX, antiX and other similar.
So now, and continuing with our traditional sequence of publications, today we will address a tutorial on the topic of personalization, with a creative and practical example based on my own experience, now that I have just uninstalled MX 21 based on Debian 11, to enjoy the MX 23 based on Debian 12 that I am customizing. Version of MX Linux, which I found very stable, versatile and with excellent performance. And that as usual, I am using to create my new (future) Respin personal and educational for learning purposes about GNU/Linux called MilagrOS. Of which, you will be able to see the customization carried out to learn a little more about Linux customization of the XFCE desktop environment.
XFCE: How to customize Linux Mouse Desktop Environment?
But, before you start reading this post on how to customize the Linux Mouse Desktop Environment (XFCE) «customizing Debian 12 and MX 23», we recommend the previous related post for later reading:
Customizing Debian 12 and MX 23 using XFCE
My personal experience customizing Debian 12 and MX 23
Personalization results
Before starting to detail how the customization settings and settings applied to my new GNU/Linux MX 23 operating system which is based on Debian 12, I will show you the result of said customization in the first 8 images. And these are the following:
- The newly started Desktop operating system
- Visualization of the Neofetch without any type of modification next to the running htop.
- Applications menu.
- Technical data on the SW/HW used.
- Ulauncher application launcher running.
- Display of all installed MX tools, including MX Services and Packages installed by the User.
- XFCE floating menu
Adjustments and configurations applied
Now having a clear idea of the result, let's delve into it. what changes have we made to obtain this interesting and striking customization. And these are the following:
Appearance menu
Here we have installed and selected the Sweet-Amber-Blue-Dark-v40 visual theme, BeautyFolders icon pack, and selected some Ubuntu sources.
Desktop Panel Preferences
Here we have placed our desktop panel horizontally and locked, with a row size of 32 pixels.
Activating the dark mode, and giving it as a background a total transparency (transparent solid color) with a dual opacity (input and output) of 80%.
We have added to our desktop panel removed, added and customized the following items:
For our desktop background we have created a nice allusive linux image ours fabulous blog Desde Linux.
And then, we have applied the following settings in the Menus and Icons section from the desk.
Window manager settings
At Window manager settings menu We have made the following adjustments:
Note: If you have a computer with plenty of hardware resources (CPU/RAM/HHDD) in this section shown in the image above, you can play with the transparency of the windows for a beautiful transparency effect, by focusing one and not others, or by move them. I recommend trying with 80% transparency.
Whisker Menu
Finally, we have applied the following configuration to the Whisker Menu used:
Coming this far, and done your own settings and configurations on Debian 12 or MX 23, or another similar one with XFCE, we are sure that you will have created something very original and creative, both for you and for others.
Summary
In short, we hope that this new tutorial on how to customize the Linux Mouse Desktop Environment (XFCE) «customizing Debian 12 and MX 23» Taking as an example my own experience applied to building my personal Respin MX may be useful to many. Above all, to those beginners and novice users in GNU/Linux who seek to learn more about The art of Debian-based Linux customization. Both to create your own Respines and to show off your creativity to others, on any given day or a day of celebration like Linux Desktop Fridays.
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