AUR (en) - xfce-winxp-tc-git

Git Clone URL:	https://aur.archlinux.org/xfce-winxp-tc-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base:	xfce-winxp-tc-git
Description:	Windows XP Total Conversion for XFCE
Upstream URL:	https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
Keywords:	gtk lightdm theme winxp xfce
Licenses:	GPL
Conflicts:	xfce-winxp-tc
Provides:	xfce-winxp-tc
Submitter:	SelfRef
Maintainer:	SelfRef
Last Packager:	SelfRef
Votes:	4
Popularity:	0.006760
First Submitted:	2023-05-27 16:13 (UTC)
Last Updated:	2025-02-09 23:10 (UTC)

Some basic instructions for using this package from the packager's perspective:

Xfce Settings

Appearance -> Style: set either Windows XP, Windows Classic or Professional; make sure the switch "Set matching Xfwm4 theme..." is enabled
Appearance -> Icons: set Luna
Appearance -> Fonts: set Tahoma Regular for Default and Lucida Console Regular for Monospace
Windows Manager -> Style tab: set same as for Appearance (if not changed already)
Mouse and Touchpad -> Theme: set Windows XP Standard (or with shadows)
Settings Editor -> xsettings -> change entry SoundThemeName to "Windows XP Default"

Login greeter:

In LightDM config file (/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf) uncomment and set option "greeter-session=wintc-logonui"

Win XP tasbar:

[! ! !] Note it's not a panel theme but a separate executable
If you want to use it along Xfce panels just add Xfce Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart entry with command "wintc-taskband", set trigger to "on login"
If you want to disable panel you can uninstall it or there's a trick:
- Login again, ensure Win XP taskbar shows up
- Go to Xfce Settings -> Session and Startup -> Currect Session
- Select "xfce4-panel" and Quit Program, after that click Save Session
- Also the "Automatically save session on logout" in General tab should be disabled
- Panel state will be preserved unless you override the session

Applications

This package contains some applications like Explorer and Notepad that can be just open from application list. You can check what is added in package file list after installing.

Just tried to install it myself and only got the Xp Icons, Window borders and Mouse Cursor. missing the panel stuff and the taskbar for some reason.

Also did some tests if package works as expected and it does, either using makepkg or yay. Thanks for the fix @rozniak :)

@mateidragony Should hopefully have fixed the problem - I haven't tried yay, but the command I broke should no longer be broken. :p

I have #280 open upstream for this problem.

Blasting thing I know exactly why it's broken, I'll have to think of an alternative way to generate the library headers. Need to go to bed now though

@mateidragony How frustrating! I did test the Arch build after doing some recent tidying up on the repo, I'll retry via yay again and see what might be going wrong.

CMake Error at /home/mateidragony/.cache/yay/xfce-winxp-tc-git/src/xfce-winxp-tc/packaging/cmake-inc/linking/CMakeLists.txt:51 (get_filename_component): get_filename_component called with incorrect number of arguments Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:27 (wintc_resolve_library)

😢

@rozniak Thanks for info. AUR updated.

@SelfRef libpulse is now added as a dependency since I have just merged the volume control feature for the system tray. :)

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SelfRef commented on 2024-05-22 22:23 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-23 10:16 (UTC) by SelfRef)

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mateidragony commented on 2024-03-07 01:14 (UTC)

lol tysm

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