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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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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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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Xfce4 + AwesomeWM. Part of notification area in xfce panel is yanked by AwesomeWM notification area
I'm using Xfce4 with AwesomeWM (tiling window manager) - xfce takes care of updating, lets me quickly configure new monitor setups (dual head) and so on, while awesome is being awesome at managing ...
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Refresh Rate 60 Hz specified as 60.003840
I'm trying to modify the screen resolution for my monitor in XFCE by modifying the file ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml
Here is the snippet I want to modify:
<property ...
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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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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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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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VirtualBox seamless mode - all or nothing?
Because I find Windows suffocatingly inconvenient, I installed a small FreeBSD VM inside VirtualBox, and am doing most of my work there. The GUI running inside the VM is xfce4, and the VBox seamless ...
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How to increase XfceWindowMenuPlugin::max-width-chars and XfceTasklist::menu-max-width-chars in xfce 4.14?
I am running xfce 4.14 in debian 10.
The default size of xfdesktop -W, Panel window grouping, and Panel window menu plugin are too small. I can not see the entire path.
I checked the official doc ...
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Invert colors of a single window in xfce4
Back when I was using gnome I could hit a keyboard shortcut (I think Super-M) to invert the colors of the current window, and another (Super-N?) to invert the whole screen.
I loved this as it made ...
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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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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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`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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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 ...
