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 can I change the initial directory of apps back to the home directory?
Apps like the XFCE4 terminal and Thunar used to open in the home directory. However, recently they started to open in $HOME/.config/xfce4/panel. I want to change this back to the home directory. How ...
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Xfce4 autologin lightdm
How do I configure autologin for xfce4? I tried setting aurologin groups but those don't work, there is nothing in the startup section of settings and no apt pkg as far as I'm aware.
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Can not set Display scale to 2 on Ubuntu using xfce and xrdp
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 in the cloud, with no physical graphic card. I have successfully installed xfce4 and xrdp. I am connecting to it from my Windows 11 home machine using Windows RDP client, mstsc. ...
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What does Mousepad's "Open files in: new tabs in a new window" do?
Mousepad's preferences menu has an 'Open files in:' dropdown menu. One of its items is 'new tabs in a new window'. How does this differ from 'new tabs' and 'new window'? I've experimented but see no ...
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Web browsers (Chromium & Firefox) fail to open in xfce over rdp
I've been attempting to open a web browser on my server with xfce4 over rdp. I've tried chromium and firefox and neither even give an error when opening by clicking on them. I'm using Ubuntu Server 22....
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Unable to unlock screen under lightdm in XDMCP configuration
On my setup, whenever the screen gets locked, I cannot unlock it anymore. I tried all three known(to me) implementations: light-locker xfce4-screensaver xscreensaver.
Special on my setup: it's a ...
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`gio open` fails to use its own mime config
I'm struggling with gio failing to open an url using default browser under XFCE4 desktop environment. What could be the reason and how to fix it?
gio info http://google.com identifies the link as text/...
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Why does my xfce4-panel keep crashing and immediately respawning itself many times a day?
A month ago, I installed Linux (Debian 12) on my PC. XFCE for the DE. Chicago95 theme.
Right from the start, and for this entire time, there has been a weird bug of some kind which makes the taskbar (...
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Xfce4 breaks down on every restart
I have casually been using Kali for quite a while, however just today I encountered this an issue, right after I swapped my Grub background image and restarted. Whenever I use my account, Xfce breaks ...
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XFCE Websites Textarea cols wrong in different browsers
I just noticed that the cols option on websites/textareas doesn't really apply on my laptop with debian 12. I double checked with an virtual machine that has debian 11 installed and there everything ...
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xfce4-panel update broke border radius
Today I updated most of my packages following the release of Debian 12, but after a reboot for some reason the amd 4.18.2-1 version of xfce4-panel bugged the border radius I set up for its old version ...
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Can you batch generate thumbnails with tumbler?
I was wondering if there is any way to generate thumbnails from all files (image and video media) in a folder with (preferably) the command line or anything else really. I use xfce4 and tumbler. ...
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Install Fedora Xfce 37 to existing (empty) partition
I have Fedora Xfce 37 installation .iso on a ventoy thumb drive. I want to install it on my M.2 drive in partition 6, which is currently formatted ext4. I get just so far: after I've selected custom ...
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Shift + F10 right-clicks on my machine, but this shortcut is not in xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml, so how does it work?
I hold incompatible beliefs. I believe that:
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml lists every keyboard shortcut on my machine.
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-...
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Picom doesn’t not launch with Xfce even after adding it to session and startup
I am on Arch Linux (5.15.13-arch1-1) and Xfce (xfce4-session 4.16.0 (Xfce 4.16)).
I use the following command to run Picom, and a similar command works just fine in my autostart script for XMonad.
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GTK theme doesn't works on every window
I'm using Xubuntu and downloaded a GTK 3 theme. However, this theme does not affect all parts of XFCE. For example, the buttons of the "Appearance" window in the picture and the buttons and ...
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Can xfce4-screenshotter be configured to save a screenshot without any GUI appearing?
I quite like xfce4-screenshooter, but even when I map it to my prntscrn key and tell it where to save e.g. xfce4-screenshooter --fullscreen --save ~/Pictures/Screenshots/, the GUI still appears to ...
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Kali linux desktop is unresponsive
My desktop is unresponsive, after i login to my account the wallpaper is stuck in the default wallpaper that kali uses until it loads the one you have chosen, programs icons, the trash icon and ...
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Linux xfce4 with login user command
I have a Linux Ubuntu 20.04 computer running Xubuntu. I am in the process of writing a c ++ program that consists of a completely new login screen. This login screen also works and I can check whether ...
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Failed connect session manager: Failed connect to session manager: IO error occured opening connection
I was following this tutorial about setting up i3 on wsl
startxfce4 results in error: "xfce5-panel: Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: IO error ...
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Debian Buster, XFCE − Firefox keeps forgetting it's been my default browser forever
In the preferences of Firefox itself, the default browser box is checked, of course.
In Settings / Personal / Preferred Applications, the web browser is set to "Mozilla Firefox" like it ...
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How can I change the line height in the Xfce4 interface?
I have been looking for ways to change(reduce) the line height or padding top/bottom on all lines in the X interface. Xubuntu 18.04 LTS
After many searches, I have found that I have to edit the ~/....
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YouTube crashes the entire computer and it will not boot up again
I was watching YouTube when the computer froze. I turned it on, and it crashed while watching YouTube again.
So I left it off overnight. In the morning it did not boot and had a blank screen, not even ...
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Can I have different DPI-settings for fonts on different monitors?
I replaced one of my monitors by one with much higher resolution. Its physical dimensions are bigger too, but not as much bigger as the resolution -- so each pixel became quite a bit smaller.
To ...
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Within a category, how can I get the apps in Xfce 4.14's Whisker Menu to sort alphabetically?
Whenever I install a new program and it gets placed in a category on the Whisker Menu (e.g. "Education", "Development"), it always defaults to putting the program at the bottom of ...
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where is Ubuntu terminal config file located
I'm looking for the config of file for xfce4 Terminal on Ubuntu.
I need to add a command there, An example of an existing command would be ctrl+shift+t to open a new tab.
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Is it possible to have a choice of default sorting order for windows with drag-and-drop enabled?
By default, XFCE does not allow you to reorder the windows in a panel by dragging and dropping them. If you go in to the Window Buttons settings for your panel (under Panel Preferences), you can ...
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Remote access to 20.04 locks window manager after a few minutes being idle
I have a ubunutu 20.04 VM running on a KVM server. The KVM server is on an updated ubuntu 20.04 system. The VM is basically an unmodified version that was just downloaded and updated. Added x2go so ...
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bspwm workspaces in Xfce4 not working
I have been running bspwm as a standalone desktop for a while, but I found it kind of a pain to have to manage wifi, xinput settings, themes, etc without a proper DE, so I switched to Xfce4 and ...
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Lockscreen shows black screen on Kali linux multimonitor setup
In Kali Linux 2020.3 with XFCE4 installed whenever I lock the screen on my 3 monitor setup I get a blank screen. However if I type the password in blindly, it logs me in, altough it doesn't work 100% ...
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