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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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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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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power manager notifications repeating incessantly ... power problems?
I've got my laptop plugged in.
The xfce power manager is repeating, incessantly: "Your battery is charging", "Your battery is fully charged", "Your battery is charging", ...
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Can't unlock system settings (such as network settings) to edit in xubuntu
I can't change any settings nor install anything using the xfce GUI on my xubuntu 14.04. Some setting-windows have that unlock button you usually click to enter your password to gain root privileges, ...
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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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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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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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Change xfce4 keyboard shortcuts
I have a simple question. I know how to edit xfce4 keyboard shortcuts (Settings->Keyboard). But I am used to open a terminal window with Ctrl+~(the one we comment here with, above the TAB). I've ...
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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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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 ...
