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  • I’m not sure, but i wouldn’t be surprised if they have a dpkg-reconfigure script for window manager (desktop environment) switching.

    But even if not, it’s no trouble at all. You can have multiple DE at the same time. Your display manager (login mask) should let you switch between them.

    And yeah, packages are named gtk-<name>-theme in Arch, i think it was similiar in Debian. Then change via xfce4-appearance-settings (“Appearance” in menu). Or just download and drop a theme in ~/.local/share/themes, as long as it is a gtk-theme. Though for window borders, it needs a folder “xfwm4” in it.

    Here’s a bunch of themes.


  • I mean, i’m a software developer too. I just sometines forget all he context.

    Hmm, thinking about it like that, the whole software stack has a similiar situation to the modern web: historical layers upon layers. Maybe we should sometime start from scratch, if the situation with vulnerabilities, reliability and brittleness becomes bad enough/gets more weigth.