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# Budgie

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Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus operating system, written from scratch. Besides a more modern design, Budgie can emulate the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop.

## Installation

Install the budgie-desktop package for the latest stable or budgie-desktop-gitAUR for current git master. It is recommended to install its optional dependencies also to get a more complete desktop environment. It is recommended also to install the gnome group, which contains applications required for the standard GNOME experience.

## Starting

Choose Budgie Desktop session from a display manager of choice, or modify xinitrc to include Budgie Desktop:

    ~/.xinitrc

    export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Budgie:GNOME
    exec budgie-desktop

## Usage

You can see the notification messages, set volume, and modify the look and feel of the desktop with the sidebar called "Raven". The "Notifications" section can be accessed with `Super+N` and the "Applets" section can be accessed with `Super+A` or by clicking on the Status Indicator applet.

## Configuration

Configuration of Budgie Desktop is done through the sidebar and changes to system settings are made through gnome-control-center

### Changing button layout

Window button layout can be changed using dconf, dconf-editor or gsettings.

For example:

    gsettings set com.solus-project.budgie-wm button-layout 'close,minimize,maximize:appmenu'
    gsettings set com.solus-project.budgie-helper.workarounds fix-button-layout 'close,minimize,maximize:menu'

### Enable lock screen

To enable lock screen after a certain amount of inactivity, install budgie-screensaver.

### Use a different window manager

The factual accuracy of this article or section is disputed.

Reason: Many window managers do not support --replace. (Discuss in Talk:Budgie)

It is possible to use an alternative window manager with the Budgie. Either define a custom GNOME session which replaces budgie-wm with another window manager or autostart `my-wm --replace` where my-wm is the executable name of the window manager you wish to use.

## See also

- Wikipedia:Budgie (desktop environment)
- Official Budgie Desktop website
- Official git repositories for Budgie development

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