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Revision as of 11:38, 10 June 2024
 Budgie Logo | |
| Release Status | Maintained |
|---|---|
| Last Release | 10.9.1 |
| Language(s) | Vala |
| Developer(s) | Buddies of Budgie |
| Website | buddiesofbudgie.org |
The Budgie Desktop is a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user. Based on GNOME, budgie provides an easy to use interface for everyone. Raven provides an all-in-one center for accessing your calendar, controlling sound output and input (including per-app volume control), media playback and more.
Features
• Budgie Desktop View
Budgie Desktop View is a software component meant to provide desktop icons within Budgie. Budgie Desktop View is implemented in Vala, and uses GTK 3 for widgets.
• Magpie
Magpie is a fork of the GNOME Project's Mutter window manager with Wayland support removed, principally intended to reduce the maintenance burden of GNOME stack upgrades by stabilizing on a particular version of the Mutter API.
• Budgie Control Center
Budgie Control Center is a fork of GNOME Control Center with Budgie-specific settings and features, and is the standard settings application for Budgie. Budgie Control Center is implemented in C, and uses GTK 3 and libhandy for widgets.
• Budgie Screensaver
Budgie Screensaver is a fork of GNOME Screensaver with additional fixes and minor updates, and serves to provide an authentication prompt when the system is locked. Budgie Screensaver is implemented in C, and uses GTK 3 for widgets.
• Budgie Backgrounds
Budgie Backgrounds is Budgie's default set of background images for use with Linux distributions that do not provide their own, and is entirely composed of public domain images.
Installation
Budgie is available on almost all linux distributions.
Arch-based systems
$ sudo pacman -S budgie
In this case, budgie is a group of packages. If you wish to install only the desktop itself, install budgie-desktop.
$ sudo pacman -S budgie-desktop
It's also recommended to install nm-applet, the default GTK theme, and the default icon theme:
sudo pacman -S arc-gtk-theme papirus-icon-theme network-manager-applet
Fedora Linux
Fedora has a spin with Budgie Desktop instead of GNOME.
Ubuntu
There is a community ISO that contains Ubuntu with Budgie Desktop instead of GNOME.
Void Linux
$ sudo xbps-install budgie-desktop
OpenSUSE
$ sudo zypper install budgie-desktop
You can also choose Budgie as an option during the installation of OpenSUSE.