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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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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xfdesktop error after inactivity "None of the screen lock tools ran successfully, the screen will not be locked"
I user lightdm and xfce on my laptop. It's a new installation. Every time the screen turns off from inactivity (or close the lid), I would see the lightdm login screen. However, after I log in, and ...
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Mouse cursor scaling issues in Xubuntu 14.04 with XFCE 4.10
I am using Xubuntu 14.04 with XFCE 4.10 and I just recently bought a Seiki 39' 4K display for home. While I think that the display itself is working great so far and I love it, I am noticing some ...
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XFCE Login Error: Unable to Load Failsafe Session
I'm having a problem logging into xfce under Arch Linux.
Problem:
After logging in (with Slim like I usually do), I get this error message:
Unable to load a failsafe session
Unable to determine ...
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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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Thunar custom command: Keep Terminal open
When I make custom commands for Thunar with the xfce4-terminal -x command, sometimes I'd like to see the Terminal output of the command. How can I prevent Terminal from closing after the command is ...
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Edit Applications is greyed out in Whisker Menu
When I right-click on the Whisker Menu, the "Edit Applications" option is greyed out. Is there any way I can enable the option and edit the applications in Whisker Menu?
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Setting PATH variable in XFCE4
I have some programs installed in my ~/.local/bin/ folder and in /etc/profile I've got the following:
if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"...
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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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Go back to default XFCE-Linux Mint session?
Im using linux mint 17.2 with XFCE.
My graphical interface went down so i had the stupid idea of going to tty1 and type "startx".
Xfce started with a default session look, witch is different than what ...
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How to start terminal in which bash is running with adjusted environment variables?
I'm using Xubuntu with XFCE.
I would like to write a bash script which opens a new tab in the xfce4-terminal. In this tab, the bash should be running with an altered PATH environment variable.
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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 XFCE "Session and Startup" doesn't see all applications
XFCE Session Manager doesn't "see" some of the applications I use regularly.
Namely:
google-chrome-stable (installed through apt-get, from http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/)
A bunch of ...
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What can you do when you've accidentally turned your brightness all of the way down in a way that largely forbids keyboard use?
I've recently encountered something quite annoying in Xfce. I can control my brightness with my Fn key shortcuts only if I am not in a menu. This means that if I go in to the power manager plugin ...
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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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How can I bind a key shortcut that includes a tab
I would like to rebind next/previous tab shortcut in XFCE's Terminal from Ctrl+PgDn/PgUp to Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab. It doesn't seem to work either by editing accels.scm or changing the shortcut ...
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Are \[ and \] needed?
I see this bash prompt config from the internet:
PS1="\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;92m\]\u\[\e[91m\]@\[\e[93m\]\h\[\e[0m\]:\[\e[0;94m\]\w\[\033[1;30m\]\[\e[0m\]$ "
As the document say:
\[ and \] are used to ...
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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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Missing Modeline when using passive 2-ports VGA switch
I am trying to use a cheap 2-ports VGA Switch (search for: Round Press Button Two Way VGA Switch Splitter Black).
It only takes two VGA in and one VGA out (no power input). However when I boot my ...
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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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alt-tab to desktop in XFCE
I use Linux with the XFCE 4 environment.
When I'm playing a game, sometimes I want to go on Internet, for example to get some info about something I don't understand.
As the game is fullscreen I ...
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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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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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Xfce's clock is slow to update after waking from suspend, is this normal?
I'm running Xubuntu 20.04, which I believe puts me on Xfce 4.14. This issue has got me in to some trouble when I return to my machine and contact people whilst having a completely wrong idea of what ...
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MX Linux remastering tools don't retain wallpaper setting
MX Linux (based on Debian stable with Xfce), contains a number of remastering utilities. Using MX Snapshot to create a "personal" snapshot .iso file is supposed to retain virtually all user settings (...
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Can't enter non-ascii characters in terminal under xfce
I use fcitx as my IME. I can use it normally in most graphical applications, but I can't submit my selection when using a terminal. The candidates window would show up as I type, but after I press ...
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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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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
No MPRIS-compliant ...
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How can I download xfce terminal linked against libvte >= 0.36 so I can get 24bit true color support (in ubuntu)
according to https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 terminal programs with libvte >= to 0.36 can have 24bit true color support. My preferred terminal is xfce4-terminal... I haven't found another ...
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Can't install xfce due unmet dependency
i wrote a CD with an iso-image from debian.org. the debian-7.5.0-amd64-CD-1.iso
from this folder.
Debian Wheezy 7.5 stable 64bit
There was an error at Select and install software step.
It said ...
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How to configure XFCE bottom panel?
I switched from Windows to Linux (Sparky Linux based on Debian Testing Jessie) with xfce 4 as
desktop. My problem is that I'm unable to configure my bottom panel:
If I right-click it, no context menu ...
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How to change mouse pointer icon in Xfce Debian 7 Wheezy?
I copied the cursor theme (oxy-neon or Oxygen Neon) to /usr/share/icons and from Applications Menu -> Settings -> Mouse, I am able to see the new theme. I clicked on it and the pointer doesn't change. ...
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How to disable typographic ligature when using font hinting in xfce
I use xfce-4. When enabling font hinting, typographic ligatures are automatically made.
The font looks really better, but typographic ligature is not good. How to disable typographic ligatures with ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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