 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 environment 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 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 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 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 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 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
To install the budgie package group, which includes first-party applications such as a screensaver, execute sudo pacman -S budgie.
Alternatively, sudo pacman -S budgie-desktop will install the standalone desktop.
Recommended optional packages include the Arc GTK theme, the Papirus icon theme, and the Network Manager applet. Executing sudo pacman -S arc-gtk-theme papirus-icon-theme network-manager-applet will install them.
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
Budgie can be selected during the OpenSUSE installation or installed afterward using sudo zypper install budgie-desktop.