The XFce Desktop Environment
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# II. Advanced XFwm configuration

If you want to customize xfwm behaviour beyond what is possible in the setup dialog, or if for some reason you run xfwm without the panel (put the command xfwm -noxfce in your `$HOME/.xinitrc` file if you want this), you have to read this part of the book. It involves editing a text configuration file in the good old unix tradition.

The first step to customize your xfwm configuration is to copy the sample configuration file to the your `$HOME/.xfce` directory. The location of this file depends on the compilation options. When compiling from source `/usr/local/etc/xfce` is the default. For the binary packages this file can be found in `/etc/X11/xfce`.

     $ cp /etc/X11/xfce/xfwmrc $HOME/.xfce

The configuration file contains commands for xfwm. The configuration system is very flexible and has many options, but as a consequence it can be rather complex.

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