Questions tagged [xfce]
A lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems.
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xfce4-power-manager only runs when charging is plugged in (dietpi)
So I installed XFCE desktop on top of DietPi. So far it works for me, but the Power Manager is not functioning properly.
When I try to launch it, then it just doesn't launch. When I try to launch it ...
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What is the provenance of .gtkrc-xfce?
I'm currently setting up a Linux Mint 21.3 Xfce Edition installation, and part of that is tidying up the dotfiles in the home directories.
There aren't that many that can be moved in the base ...
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XFCE: trigger desktop's right-click "Arrange Desktop Icons" from the command line or script?
I'm trying to use XFCE with Termux on Android, and the behavior of the desktop icons is a complete mess. The size of the display is dynamic (four possible configurations when using the phone, ...
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Linux XFCE desktop environment: Half-screen maximized Firefox is one pixel too high
I'm using XFCE on Ubuntu 22.4.04, and can also reproduce this on an XFCE desktop running in Debian on Termux in Android.
The maximized window placement for Firefox in XFCE is incorrect. It overlaps ...
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Xfce malfunction in Debian
I’m running xfce in Debian 12 bookworm and a couple of days ago all the buttons on top of the windows to close or maximise them etc., disappeared. The interface is acting weird to. I think this might ...
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Starting application with I/O redirection via *.desktop file
I start music or video with right click and "open with" in Thunar (Xfce). For every entry, there is a *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications. I want to ...
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You don't have write permission to backup destination
Debian 12, using whatever the built-in backup system is.
I have it set to back up to an external drive that's dedicated to this purpose.
When I hit the button to do a backup, it says I don't have ...
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xfce desktop has limited permission
I have a newly installed debian 12 system. It runs xfce as it's default desktop UI. I login xfce with an account with sudo right. It seems the desktop UI has a general permission problem. I have the ...
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How to run script on XFCE4 logon and logoff?
I'd like to run a shell script each time a (specific) user logs in to his XFCE4-session, as well as run another script each time that user logs off.
So far, I was able to create a script at ~/.config/...
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XFCE: M-Tab, active windows and „Always on Top“
I run XFCE under X11 with focus policy „focus follows mouse“. What happens when I open an application, create a new (second) window in it, set it to „Always on Top“ from window menu, move the mouse ...
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screen doesn't wake up after resume from suspend
I'm have installed Devuan Daedalus in my friend's computer. It is a HP laptop with AMD RYZEN 3 and Radeon Graphics.
As expected, all the function keys don't work. That is alright.
After suspend, when ...
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xfce4 as default Windowmanager on Rocky Linux 9
Following this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9.
But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5.
If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started.
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Display Conky folder size as a bar
I display the /boot folder with this function
${execi 60 du -sh /boot | awk '{ print $1 }'}
That gives me the
168M /boot
Now I would like to display this as a bar with "execbar".
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How to display path-entry text box in file open dialog
When I click on Browse on different GUI applications to select a file or folder, the following screenshot is what I'm presented with:
The section I am pointing to cannot be edited just like a casual ...
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how to change default login manger on Fedora?
I have Fedora Xfce, and I was testing Budgie desktop (deleted it after few minutes) and now I have broken login screen, I'm not able to type password for default user. I need to select different user ...
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Can't do 'dbus-send' from shutdown script, but it works fine at CLI
For some reason my xfce4 refuses to remember my session when I shut down or restart (the correct box is ticked in the 'session and startup' dialogue). The good folks on the xfce forum can't replicate ...
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How to fix "No window manager registered on screen 0."
After logging in, I see my terminal windows from the last session but the window decorations (title bar, close button, etc) are missing.
In the file $HOME/.xsession-errors are the following messages:
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Nanopi / Debian - Disabling Auto Login Breaks Sound
I have the NanoPi R6C. The vendor, FriendlyElec, provide an image of Debian 11. I flash this to the eMMC. Out of the box, sound works through the USB headphones (though not through HDMI).
The image ...
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How to apply custom color scheme for xfce mousepad
How to apply custom style for Mousepad 0.5.10 in Debian 12? I created a copy of classic.xml and modified the content of the copy as you can see below. But if I run Mousepad, then the new color-scheme ...
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gvfsd-network error
When I start system-config-printer, or when I click on network in Thunar, I get this error message:
Apr 29 20:12:39 I-NET gvfsd-network[5425]: g_ref_string_new_intern: assertion 'str != NULL' failed
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xfce4 shortcuts (mostly) not working with xdotool
I want to make a keyboard shortcuts for automatically entering predefined texts with xdotool.
I made a shell script file and want to run it through the keyboard. When i assign shortcut throught xfce4'...
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Why DO I get Hazed Screen while remote desktop in Linux?
I have a Rasberry pi 4 with rasberry pi os 64 bit. I usually use that as remote desktop for some purpose. I fresh flashed my sd card and installed xdrp,xfce4(desktop env) but whenever I open my ...
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how to change font size locally in xfce-terminal?
Does anyone know if there's a way to change the font-size in xfce-terminal locally (for just one window), preferably on the command line? It's possible to change it globally (for all terminal windows) ...
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How to disable closing or minimizing X window
I want to disable closing or minimizing one of my windows (or to be more accurate, to remove the minimize and close buttons from the window). I was trying to change the _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS ...
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change the way xfce4 desktops are saving the configuration of displays
I'm using ltsp to use the same linux-os(mostly xfce4 desktops on ubuntu and debian) on different workstations mostly with more than one monitor. The easiest way to configure the monitors(position, ...
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How to stop xfce from full-screening a window when dragging the title bar and it hits the top of the screen?
When I am trying to position a window against the top of the screen, as the mouse get within a few pixels of the top , the window flips to full screen size, which is totally annoying. The<same on ...
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how to change gtk default font in xfce4?
I'm not sure if this is Debian 12 issue or an xfce4 (4.18) issue or a GTK (3.24) issue: various applications let you choose fonts for this or that, but, particularly in pop up dialogue boxes, there ...
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Magic Trackpad tap-to-click Debian 12 Xfce, how to enable
Xfce Version 4.18
GTK Version 3.24.38
Kernel Version 6.1.0-18-amd64
First SE question. I tried to comment here instead but do not have sufficient reputation.
How do I enable tap-to-click for a Magic ...
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Problems with session lock
I am currently trying to get the session lock running on my DELL XPS 15.
Everytime I suspend the system it fails and there is an error message telling
me that all session lock tools failed. When ...
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WSL2 OpenSUSE - Getting XFCE to work
I've been using OpenSUSE-Tumbleweed on WSL2 and tried to implement XFCE. However, when I run startxfce4, the following is shown and XFCE doesn't start:
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on ...
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Touchscreen Gestures Not Working Properly on LattePanda with Xubuntu (XFCE4) & Qt App
I'm hoping to get some assistance with a touchscreen issue on a LattePanda board running Xubuntu20.04.6 LTS (XFCE4 environment). We have a Qt application designed for this setup, but we're ...
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Disable CTRL + ALT + F5 shortcut [duplicate]
How can I disable the global CTRL+ALT+F5 (terminal login) shortcut in Xubuntu?
Tried Window Manager settings, LightDM settings and Keyboard settings.
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debian xfce screen resolution reverts randomly and after suspend
I've come over to Debian from Ubuntu - great!
I'm using xfce4 as the desktop environment.
One issue is my chosen screen resolution reverts to a default - both randomly while I'm on the PC (just ...
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Cannot avoid suspend on Xfce
Okay i have had an issue for the past few weeks I cannot figure out. I have been trying to prevent screen sleep/logout on some industrial screen that should staty awake permanently, with autologin, ...
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hibernate mode not listed by xfce although "allowed"
Hibernate is not listed as a logout option in xfce4:
The XFCE doc suggests to check xfce4-power-manager, but there seems to be no problem:
>xfce4-power-manager --no-deamon --debug
TRACE[xfpm-...
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Debian, Xfce: Volumes mounted by Thunar unmounted after suspend, "file exists" when trying to mount them again with Thunar
I've just reinstalled my Linux desktop, and now have a problem that I haven't experienced on Ubuntu Xfce:
If I mount a volume, suspend the computer and then wake it up, volumes that were mounted ...
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Japanese characters in file names are displayed as empty squares in Xfe
In Xfe (X File Explorer 1.45), I cannot display file names with Japanese characters in the name. The charackters appear as empty squares. In Terminal, thunar (4.18.7)... they are displayed correctly.
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How to fix this issue about connecting to xrdp ? (parrotOS xfce on wsl2)
xypher@Oyo-chan:~$ sudo systemctl enable xrdp
[sudo] password for xypher:
Synchronizing state of xrdp.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/...
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Lightdm multi screen arrangement
I run XFCE on Debian with two monitors next to eachother.
The default positioning of the monitors is mixed up. I.e., when the mouse leaves the left edge of the physically left monitor it isn't blocked,...
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Why script that works from terminal doesn't work from XFce panel?
I have this script:
#!/bin/bash
(sleep $(zenity --entry --text "How long") && beep)&
It works from the terminal but not from the XFce panel (activator). Zenity is executed but ...
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How do I bulk edit the default application for many file types in XFCE?
Last year I test drove Lapce & somehow set it to be the default application for over 100 source file types. I don't remember how I did this, but the XFCE Default Applications program tells me so. ...
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something grabs the keyboard when I press the audio previous key on my keyboard [duplicate]
When I press the audo play and audio next keys on my keyboard the keypress goes through to my application, but when I press the audio previous key something is grabbing the keypress and preventing it ...
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Workaround for applications which use file system dialog that does not enable to open masked folders (beginning with a dot)?
I want to migrate from keepass2 to keepassxc. I am under Debian 12 with XFCE. When I want to open my keypass store located at dot-folder ~/.keepass , the file system dialog of keepassxc does not ...
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Unable to save alsamixer settings on bookworm xfce
I'm french so thanks for forgiving my english
I'm on debian bookworm xfce and I'm unable to save alsamixer Headphons settings.
When I start a session there is no sound, the command
alsamixer
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xfwm4 : Center new windows
I've just installed Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) with xfce gui.
How can I get newly opened windows to open centered on the display. Now they either snap to already opened windows, or open top/bottom ...
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Unable to run xrdb command to resize cursor when logging in
happy XFCE4 user here,
I (unluckily) switched to a notebook with 4k display.
I managed to adapt most of the aspects, still when hovering on Chrome or Xfce Terminal the cursor is tiny.
I found that ...
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Blocked packages problem in gentoo
I want to install xfce on gentoo but after running root #emerge --ask xfce-base/xfce4-meta there is error that the packages are blocked and i tried many things but none of them work. Please help me ...
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How to change the default notification daemon to xfce4-notifyd in Ubuntu with KDE Plasma Desktop Environment
I wanted to use xfce-like notification so I tried to get rid of Plasma-like notification
I have tried renaming, deleting /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service file but it ...
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TigerVNC Xfce startup failing on new Debian 12 bookworm install. "Another session manager is already running" Worked on Debian 10
I've set up a temporary Debian 12 instance on a laptop to test with prior to migrating a desktop from Debian 10 to 12. The only thing not working so far is the tigervnc instance, but that's critical.
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gedit from the command line: new window or tab?
I'm trying to customize the behavior of gedit when I launch a new instance from the command line. In the past, the default was "open a new tab if there's a existing window in the current ...
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