Questions tagged [xfce4]
Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD.
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How to add a CA certificate to libsoup?
I'm trying to use a small application a (Xfce Weather plugin) behind a corporate firewall. The firewall intercepts HTTPS connections and changes everything to be signed by their certificates -- to be ...
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Make windows maxmize past the panel
I have a narrow panel in the corner with a clock and I want it to go over windows when maximizing.
It works if I make the panel hidden, but I don't want to do that. I can also manually drag the ...
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No authentication agent found for pkexec
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 headless system that I recently installed xfce4 and vnc4server onto. I can connect via VNC and see the desktop, but trying to launch privileged apps such as Synaptic silently ...
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where do thunderbird / Xcfe get their MIME type handler settings?
In my thunderbird setup (version 60.0 on 64-bit Debian Stretch) PDF attachments are opened in libreoffice showing generally useless gibberish. That is when I double-click. When I right-click, there is ...
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Lxpanel in Xfce
Is it possible, in Debian Stretch, to combine the XFCE desktop with lxpanel from LXDE (instead of xfce4-panel)?
There are troubles with starting it properly (both panels, no panel, crashes, ...) as ...
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Set wallpaper from cron in xfce4
I've written a little script createCountdownWallpaper.py that is supposed to re-render the wallpaper /tmp/wallpaper.png every few minutes, and a script setWallpaper.sh that looks as follows:
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Error loading Xfce on FreeBSD in VirtualBox
I typed startxfce4, but it showed the error message:
failed to set mtrr: Device not configured
process 1675: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed
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Adding XFCE GUI on top of Windows Subsystem for Linux
I want to setup a GUI on top of WSL and chose XFCE4 as this successfully worked with a Kali-rolling deployment with its xfce4 gui on another Windows 10 computer. I however don't want to reuse the ...
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Launch an application at startup
Task:
Launch xfce4-clipman at startup
Tried:
I've created a sh script at the right place with the right permissions:
martin@martin:/etc/init.d$ ls -l start_clipman.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 26 ...
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Disable F11 (fullscreen) in XFCE Terminal
This is a lot like disable F1 on xfce terminal. But:
I want to disable F11, not F1. Disabling F1 is in the preferences UI (which works), but F11 is not there.
I've tried everything mentioned at ...
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Debian + xfce multidisplay flickering
I use Debian 9 with xfce (v 4.12) on lenovo l450 and two dell external displays: one connected with VGA and other one with mini-dp.
Here is info about videocard:
Extended renderer info (...
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Missing scrollbars in SeaMonkey
A few months back, I did an upgrade of my Fedora 25. Everything went fine, except that I lost scrollbars on SeaMonkey. Since then, I Googled several times and couldn't find the cause or how to fix it, ...
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Debian 9 Stretch, XFCE4: Possible screen lock numlock bug?
I think I've discovered a possible bug in Debian 9 Stretch.
When the system boots, or the user locks the screen, the number lock is always "off" - even when the keyboard LED indicates that it is "on"....
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mpris-remote doesn't pick up pithos
I am using pithos on debian 9 with xfce.
I am looking for a simple way to control it with the command line.
I installed mpris-remote but when I run it, it says:
$ mpris-remote
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Xfce4 on WSL with VcXsrv doesn't update properly
I got Xfce4 installed on WSL. It's working except for the part where the graphics doesn't update properly:
I have to keep moving things around to trigger an update. Is there any way to fix that?
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