Questions tagged [xfce]
Lightweight Linux windowing environment
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How to associate "open with" programs exactly by file extension rather than file content format?
I use a system with Xubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Now Thunar, the file explorer, does include an option where you can right-click a file and choose the (default) application to open a file type with.
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Debian ui xfce installation
I've trying to install a Debian distribution from Microsoft store and i don't have an Interfaces graphics. I've also tried some command line from terminal but it's always not working.
my question is, ...
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How can I debug a Discord icon being sometimes missing from the Xfce panel?
On Xubuntu 22.04, I use the Discord snap. Its small icon is sometimes missing from my panel and sometimes not. I am unsure if it is supposed to live in the Indicator plugin or in the the Status Tray ...
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xfce-terminal: Ctrl-Shift-V pastes, but can't copy
Suddenly, out of the blue, my xfce4-terminal refuses to copy to the clipboard. I can paste to the terminal from the menu or with Ctrl-Shift-V, but selecting something from the terminal and then trying ...
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RDP connection broken when closing lid
I have old Acer Aspire that I want to turn in home server and connect remotely.
I installed Linux Mint (XFCE edition because I wanted something lightweight).
XRDP is installed and everything works ...
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How to Change Position of an Item that Appears in Thunar Context Menu
Thunar 1.6.11 (Debian Stretch)
Thunar is loaded on two different machines. When I right click on a .zip file, the context menu on one machine displays the Extract Here option fairly high up on the ...
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Is there a way to control xfce-pulseaudio-plugin (pavucontrol) with command line?
Trying to setup media control shortcuts in Xfce (Play/Pause, Next track). I have xfce-pulseaudio-plugin which use pavucontrol. Is there a way to switch tracks via pavucontrol command line interface? ...
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Why different Logout options coming
I am working on Debian Stable Linux with XFCE desktop, which is otherwise working very well.
I find that when I click "Log Out" button on XFCE main menu, it usually shows me following 7 ...
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How do I open the file location of a shortcut's target? [duplicate]
I have a shortcut to a file. This file is inside of a folder. In Thunar, I have the folder that the shortcut itself is in (i.e. not the folder that the shortcut's target is in). I wish to open the ...
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Debian broke after installing xfce
I have Parrot OS(debian 9) installed in my computer. I als did have installed the mate and bspwm desktop enviroments. Solving a technical issue with xrdp I accidentally installed the xfce desktop ...
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How to control screen blanking in Xfce
I have a small cluster of machines running Xubuntu, all recently updated to 22.04. The update caused oddities, different on each machine, but those disappeared after a restart. But now I'm faced ...
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Can't connect to Samba (SMB) server Debian 11 XFCE
Can't connect to Samba server with Debian 11 and XFCE.
Scenario: Samba server has been setup on Truenas box.
Cannot connect to it using the path/url entry box in Thunar (file mananger.)
See this video ...
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What to do when my machine is locked, but the desktop is showing?
Sometimes, on my Xubuntu 22.04 laptop, I'll unplug the dual monitor, leave the machine, and then attempt to log back in without plugging the monitor back in.
Due to an unknown fault, this sometimes ...
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How to use lxsession with xfce panel
I use the LXDE desktop environment along with xfce-panel because the lxde-panel doesn't support panel plugins like netspeed, weather report etc. But my problem is I want to properly do operations like ...
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xfce keyboard shortcuts not working
i am trying to use printscreen button to run the command 'flameshot gui' but for some reason when i press the button it does nothing
it used to work but now it does nothing
when i type 'flameshot gui' ...
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Cybereason just appeared on status bar
I've been using Manjaro for a while, but last week a new icon appeared on the status bar. When right-clicking it says it is from Cybereason (see below), but I did not install it. Try to figure out ...
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Unmute audio when pressing volume up on XFCE
I recently switched from Gnome to XFCE and the audio keyboard keys are acting differently and I don't know of to make behave like Gnome. For instance on Gnome, when the volume is at 0%, the keyboard ...
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How to reset xfwm4 (xfce4 default WM) configuration, without altering other Xfce4 related configurations?
My problem here is that somehow the keybindings got borked so that keybindings of WM do work fine, but any application (including parts of Xfce4) don't get correct KeyPress and KeyRelease data from ...
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Installing custom fonts for the xfce terminal
I would like to run an ASCII game in the terminal, but it requires the text to be perfectly square to look proper, how would I download and install a square font on the xfce terminal?
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Kali Linux - Switching to GNOME from XFCE in KEX on WSL2 (WIN11). How to?
I'm unable to switch to Gnome desktop envivorment in Kali linux running on WSL2.
I'm booting with kex (kex -s).
Already installed Gnome updatet to latest release, but it always boot in Xfce.
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Linux (Manjaro, xfce) Ctrl-w is not working (user wide)
I have a very annoying issue: Ctrl-W (both: Left-Ctrl-W and Right-Ctrl-W) is not working in ALL applications (Chromium, Firefox, Mousepad etc). So it is not a application issue.
Manjaro Linux
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Hide/Unhide inactive Windows in XFCE?
I'm using XFCE Desktop Environment and long time ago I was playing with setting and find some option that hide inactive windows and shows Desktop wallpaper directly behind my transparent terminal and ...
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Prevent deleting files in XCFE
I use XFCE 4.12 on Ubuntu 18.04 ; and I would like to avoid deleting files inadvertently from the right-click menu:
Both "Move to Trash" and "Delete" menu items permanently delete ...
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No XFCE Animated Resource Monitor available
I am running the latest version of kali (Debian Based OS) with XFCE on my laptop (not VM), please see further info below.
When using a VM version for work I am able to see an animated CPU usage in the ...
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Are linux notifications logged somewhere?
I sometimes get a notification in the corner of the screen and don't have/take the time to read it before it disappears. That shouldn't be a major issue in general, since major issues should be ...
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Lock screen from command line in Xfce
I found this answer, but that's about Gnome. I couldn't find an answer about Xfce on Super User.
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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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How to tab into Task bars in XFCE
I have two task bars (using MX linux), bar 1 is horizontal on bottom of desktop, bar 2 is vertical on the left of the screen.
I cannot figure out how to tab onto and scroll through the taskbars using ...
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Are the rules for clearing Thunar's thumbnail cache set somewhere that the user can change?
I have recently discovered that my ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal/ folder contains some very old thumbnails. I was under the impression that these were automatically deleted with reasonable frequency. The ...
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How to setup default browser installed as flatpak
Since I uninstalled Firefox from official Debian repositories and installed it as flatpak, I have no default browser set anymore. If I go to Settings->Default Applications, I get this prompt: "...
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How can I access the window menu for a VirtualBox VM in XFCE
I'm running XFCE on Linux and using VirtualBox. When I start a VM, I'd like to be able to access the XFCE window menu on the VM itself in order to set the window mode to sticky ("Always on ...
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Is there a preferred way of restarting X after getting stuck on the desktop despite not logging in due to disconnecting a monitor?
When I disconnect the external monitor on my Xubuntu 20.04 laptop, I occasionally experience some misbehavior on my main monitor. For example, I recently disconnected my external monitor while the ...
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apt-get upgrade fails becuse of unmet dependencies
I've been kali linux for a while, but recently ive been unable to upgrade or install new software
when i run apt-get update , the list is updated successfully, but on running apt-get upgrade i get the ...
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evince doesn't adapt window size to screen size
I use my laptop with external screens whose resolution and position differ depending on whether I am at work or at home. Most Xorg applications cope with this quite well. Evince however does not, and ...
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Thunar cannot browse network
I've already figured out the answer, but decided to post this as a Q+A here because this bothered me for ages and it took a long time to find the solution.
Hoping this will be of use to others (or ...
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Linux - run command when display turns on to reset xsetwacom setting
I'm using a Wacom one pen display, and to make the pen use the right monitor I need to run
ID=$(xsetwacom list | grep stylus | awk '{print $9}')
xsetwacom set "$ID" MapToOutput HEAD-1
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How can I change the last download location in XFCE?
Applications like simple-scan uses one kind of a file-dialog (A) and applications like chromium, telegram, xfce4-screenshooter use some other kind of file-dialog (B). (There are two different kinds of ...
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MX Linux - can't shutdown/ reboot - /usr/bin/systemctl: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
Today i tried to install snapd, I found that it's not so easy on MX Linux as on different distributions. I found this (also this ) link where I had to add some script to my /usr/bin/systemctl. It didn'...
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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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Minecraft hot bar keys don't work while shifting in Manjaro xfce
I use manjaro xfce, or to be more specific my OS is: Manjaro Linux x86_64, my DE is: Xfce 4.14, and my WM is Xfwm4. I'm running Minecraft on it and when shifting hot bar slots 2 and 6 don't work, I'd ...
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What patterns can be used in Thunar's Select By Pattern?
In Thunar, Select By Pattern - the option brought up by ctrl+s - lets you search through the files in a directory by patterns. For example, searching "?.jpg" will select all jpgs. What is ...
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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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Running script from .desktop file yields different result than from terminal
When running the following script from a .desktop file the output is different than if run from the terminal. I would like it to run as it does in the terminal. My desktop enviroment is Xubuntu.
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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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Thunar shows me icons from Wine, but I don't have Wine installed. How can I make it forget about Wine?
I've tried the many methods from here and therefore I'm confident that I no longer have Wine installed on my Xubuntu 20.04 machine. However, the default icon for opening .dll and similar Windows files ...
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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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Debian 10 blank screen after suspend (using lightdm xfce)
Every time I wake up the laptop after sleep I get a black screen. Pressing any key brings up the screen and shows the login screen, but logging in gets the screen black again and at that time the only ...
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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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