Attention

Qubes OS 4.2 has reached end of life - it is no longer supported and thus will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or new features. We recommend to perform an in-place upgrade or perform a clean installation of Qubes 4.3! The documentation of version 4.2 will also not receive any new updates, unless bug fixes. Its state is thus archived.

Xfce templates

If you would like to use Xfce (more lightweight compared to GNOME desktop environment) Linux distribution in your qubes, you can install one of the available Xfce templates for Fedora, Debian, Gentoo or CentOS*.

* The CentOS version used by this template reached End-of-Life in June 2024 and is no longer receiving updates. Due to a lack of specific interest at this time a proposal to create a new CentOS 10 template was declined .

Installation

The Fedora Xfce templates can be installed with the following command (where X is your desired distro and version number):

[user@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-X-xfce

If your desired version is not found, it may still be in testing. You may wish to try again with the testing repository enabled:

[user@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-itl-testing qubes-template-X-xfce

If you would like to install a community distribution such as Gentoo, try the install command by enabling the community repository:

[user@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community qubes-template-X-xfce

If your desired version is not found, it may still be in testing. You may wish to try again with the testing repository enabled:

[user@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community-testing qubes-template-X-xfce

The download may take a while depending on your connection speed.

To reinstall a Xfce template that is already installed in your system, see How to Reinstall a template.