Easy way to Install XFCE 4.10 Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 12.04
XFCE 4.10 has been released and announced by XFCE development team, it comes with many improvements which include new application finder, a vertical display mode option for the XFCE panel, a new MIME type editor, behavioral changes, and the window manager can be configured to tile windows when dragging them to screen edges. There’s also Alt-Tab improvements and other functionality improvements. For more info about the XFCE 4.10 desktop release see @XFCE_Announcement and @XFCE_tour
by default Xubuntu 12.04 comes with XFCE 4.8. Now, XFCE 4.10 packages for Precise were made available by the Xubuntu Developers team via the official PPA. Those who are using Xubuntu 12.04 can upgrade using this PPA, and those running any other desktop environment in Ubuntu 12.04 can also install XFCE 4.10 from it.
How to Install/Upgrade XFCE 4.10 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS via PPA
To upgrading XFCE 4.8 to XFCE 4.10 in Xubuntu 12.04, Add the PPA XFCE 4.10, with following commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
If you are running other desktop environment (Gnome Shell, Unity) in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and want to try XFCE 4.10, just replace the last command above with command:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
For a more pure XFCE, without pulling in all the extra Xubuntu stuff, run commands below:
sudo apt-get install xfce4
If you have problems after install XFCE 4.10, or the upgrade itself. just running the command below to solve the problem:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10