Xfce is a lightweight but functional and popular desktop for GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems, that uses GTK. Debian Stable includes version 4.4RC1 (4.3.99.1), whilst Sid includes 4.4.1. There are two ways to install Xfce, either using one of the Xfce installers or via apt-get. Its recommended that you use apt-get so that it can keep track of installed files and prevent dependancy problems.
How to install Xfce
To get a bare minimum base install of X, do:
aptitude install xorg
To install Xfce do the following:
aptitude install xfce4
You can also install the Xfce task, using aptitude:
aptitude install xfce4
This will install a meta package, which will install the core XFCE modules and scripts to get it to work.
There are many useful utilities that come with XFCE, to install these do:
aptitude install xfce4-goodies
Other Packages
Other packages that can be found with
aptitude search xfce4
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