Budgie

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Budgie is The Budgie Desktop is a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user. Buddies of Budgie was founded to provide a home for the Budgie Desktop, an open source modern desktop environment built to provide you immediate access to the things you need.. It focuses on simplicity and elegance.

Note
The Budgie desktop environment is not currently available in the main Gentoo ebuild repository, there is however a Budgie ebuild repository available: https://gitlab.com/SarahMia/sarahmiaoverlay.

Please report bugs upstream and provide sufficient details (how to reproduce, info, logs, errors, etc).

Installation

Overlay

To be able to enable the overlay install the app-eselect/eselect-repository and dev-vcs/git packages.

root #emerge --ask app-eselect/eselect-repository dev-vcs/git

In order to be able to install the Budgie desktop on Gentoo enable the overlay created by SarahMia:

root #eselect repository enable SarahMiaOverlay

Also sync the overlay using:

root #emerge --sync sarahmiaoverlay

USE flags

The gnome-extra/budgie-meta package provides the full Budgie desktop, configurable with 1 USE flag:

Minimal makes gnome-extra/budgie-meta only install essential packages for the desktop to work. All-packages can also be set instead to install everything.

Emerge

Install Budgie:

root #emerge --ask gnome-extra/budgie-meta

Alternatively, If the user wants a very basic desktop, Install gnome-extra/budgie-meta with the minimal USE flag. If you simply want everything with all the applets you can set the useflag all-packages as mentioned above for budgie-meta.

FILE /etc/portage/package.use/budgie-metaChange USE flags for gnome-extra/budgie-meta

# Install's only budgie-desktop, budgie-screensaver, budgie-desktop-view, budgie-control-center.
gnome-extra/budgie-meta minimal

If simply everything is wanted with all the applets you can set the useflag all-packages as mentioned above for budgie-meta.

FILE /etc/portage/package.use/budgie-metaChange USE flags for gnome-extra/budgie-meta

# Install everything related to budgie-desktop including budgie-backgrounds, budgie-extras and all the other applets.
gnome-extra/budgie-meta all-packages

One can also specify what applets should be installed with the gnome-extra/budgie-extras package. By default all will be installed with the exception of networkmanager and trash. Since the former depends on the global USE flag networkmanager and the other because budgie-desktop itself already has a trash applet. By setting

FILE /etc/portage/package.use/budgieSet BUDGIE_EXTRAS_APPLETS

gnome-extra/budgie-extras BUDGIE_EXTRAS_APPLETS: app-launcher wallstreet show-weather

To see all options for BUDGIE_EXTRAS_APPLETS:

root #emerge --pretend --verbose budgie-extras

You can install other applets (if not installed budgie-meta with 'all-packages' USE flag) by running the following command:

root #emerge --search budgie

Display Manager

The recommended display manager to use with Budgie is LightDM, but any other will work. For instructions follow:

LightDM: Follow for instructions with enabling LightDM.
Display_manager: Follow for instructions with enabling other display managers.

Personalize

Budgie-desktop by itself comes pretty empty. You can install any application you want. Since Budgie Desktop uses GTK3 and 4 the preferences goes to GTK applications but the user is free to run any others.

Budgie Settings

All settings can be found in Budgie Desktop Settings and Budgie System Settings. If budgie-extras is installed with the associated applets (by default all are) then there are additional settings available in Previews Control (for alt tabbing), Wallstreet Control (for rotating wallpapers) and Window Shuffler Control (for tiling and window placement support).

Filemanager

Budgie-desktop by itself comes without a filemanager. You are free to install one yourself of your choice. Nautilus and Nemo are most used for Budgie Desktop and also fit the best.

Styling / Themes

To install a theme you can take any from the main gentoo repository such as ark and vertex:

root #emerge --ask x11-themes/arc-theme x11-themes/vertex-theme

The user can download a theme from another place such as https://www.gnome-look.org/. If done then place the theme directory in ~/.local/share/themes/ (If the directory does not exist, please create the directory.

To style any Gnome application place the contents of the libadwaita (or the gtk-4.0 if it doesn't exist) directory thats inside the theme directory in ~/.config/gtk-4.0/

Downloaded icon and cursor themes can be placed in ~/.icons. If the directory does not exist please create it.

The themes can then be selected in Budgie Desktop Settings under Style category. GNOME applications should be auto styled after they are restarted. Backgrounds are changed in Budgie System Settings.