Ubuntu’s default install of XFCE 4 first gives you the impression that you’ve forgotten to change sessions (using the “options” button on the log-in screen, and then choose “Change Session”). However it’s quicker, more lightweight, and definately more user-friendly to those of us running on older hardware, though of course, you can change all that.
The “Setting Manager” (accessible from Applications->Settings->Settings Manager) allows you to make things a lot more pretty for yourself.
Your first stop to “User Interfaces” and chose the theme “Xfce-dusk”, save that by simply clicking close, then move to “Window Manager” and choose “Gorrilla”. That should give you a theme pretty much like I’m running now.
If you have a fast enough PC, you can then move onto “Window Manager Tweaks” if you want lots of funky effects, like transparency and shading, but remember that they take up precious CPU time.
Hope that helps,
Black Xanthus
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