Questions tagged [xfce]
Lightweight and fast free software desktop environment for UNIX-like platforms. Xfce (currently Xfce4) is the desktop environment of Xubuntu.
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Ubuntu 16.04 Xfce unable to start display setting
Within the screen, going to APPLICATIONS -> SETTING then DISPLAY the response is
Unable to Start the Xfce display settings
This system is using RandR 1.1. For the display settings to work version 1.2 ...
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How do I remove dead links from the whisker search bar in xubuntu 16.04?
I have searched through the entire menu editor, deleting everything I do not want. However if I use the search feature in whisker the entries remain as dead links.
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How to remove Exo Preffered Applications (of Xfce) from Ubuntu
I recently installed the Dolphin file manager to try it on Ubuntu.
I then removed it and I now want to uninstall Exo Preferred Applications which I installed to make Dolphin as a default file manager.
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Prevent 'Display' window from appearing after pressing 'Turn on/off display' shortcut in XFCE
I have an Acer laptop and it has a shortcut (Fn + F6) to turn the display on/off. This is very useful, however I've faced one annoying issue: every time I press this shortcut, the 'Display' window (...
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Loss of nautilus menu functionality in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
As you'll see from the following image, my copy of nautilus is a little broken.
I've lost access to all menus other than "file", there are black spots on the top corners of the window, and the file/...
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Xubuntu 16.04: Change lock screen default value
By default there seems to be no automatic lock screen in Xubuntu 16.04. Which file needs to be changed to get the screen locked after 10m inactivity?
I know where to change it via a GUI on a user ...
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xfce wont launch diodon via shortcut
I'm running XFCE on 16.04, and have installed diodon.
I have set-up a system-wide keyboard shortcut as it says here, but diodon history wont launch.
(I have tried both diodon (which works when using ...
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Change file picker dialog
I am using the Xfce desktop and the default file picker dialog seems really out of place. The file picker seems to look a lot like Nautilus even though I don't even have it installed.
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Get 2 or more keyboard layout indicators in XFCE
I am using 2 monitors and have 2 panels for each one in XFCE 4.12. I want to have a keyboard indicator on each panel but it seems that I can have only one instance.
Add button disabled. Indicator ...
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installed xfce / xRDP on AWS - XKB extension not present on
I just moved to install 4.1 XFCE on my AWS Ubuntu (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS) and I can't get the keyboard mappings to work ... yep, tried lots of stuff.
I'm trying to use Spyder (Anaconda Python Debugger) ...
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install XFCE login screen
I just installed ubuntu 16.04 server version without any GUI, than I installed xcfe4, right now to start xfce4 desktop environment I have to type in terminal
sudo startxfce4
How can I see a GUI for ...
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How cycle through applications in Xubuntu without using Alt-Tab?
I don't like the Alt-Tab function and just want to loop through my bottom application at the bottom bar with shortcuts.
Here is a screenshot with applications at the bottom of screen:
How can I ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - how Lightdm starts Unity [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. I have also installed Xfce4 so in Lightdm login screen I can choose Unity or Xfce. I assume that when Lightdm runs Xfce4 desktop environment it uses /usr/bin/startxfce4 Then ...
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Some applications display their menus in Unity but not in Xfce. How can I make Xfce display them too?
Some applications display their menus (File, edit, etc.) in Unity but not in Xfce. Some example screenshots from Unity:
Mozilla Firefox:
Google Chrome:
However, these applications don't display ...
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How to get the menu to display in the panel rather than in individual windows in Xfce?
Lately, I've been using Xfce more and Unity less. One of the things I miss from Unity is the position of the "menus". (In this case, they say "Media, Edit", etc., what are these called, by the way? ...
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How to change from the Unity DE to Xfce? (Ubuntu 16.04.1)
I've been trying to install the Xfce Desktop Environment more than once, with no success.
I typed:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
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sudo apt-get install xfce4
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Need command help in Creating a Launcher in Xfce for Minecraft jar file [duplicate]
Total Noob here. I've only discovered Linux to get Minecraft working on our Chromebook for my son. I know I need to learn more but really could use some step by step help here.
I am able to run ...
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How to reduce size of the vertical panel icons in xfce4?
Here's my vertical panel:
How do I reduce the size of the whisker and battery icons (while keeping the same panel width)?
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xfce4 "tiling windows when moving to screen edge" not working
With xfce4 4.10.1 I would like to have windows tiled automatically (this means they use half the screen, right?) when moving them to the edge of the screen.
In the xfce4-settings-manager->Window ...
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How to set threshold brightness in Xfce?
I would like to know how to set threshold brightness that can be adjusted via the brightness keys (F11, F12) in my case.
When I press F11, the brightness is going too minimum that it ends up in black ...
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How to change the value of dirty_writeback_centisecs?
I would like to change the value of dirty_writeback_centisecs. After seeing the Tunables in Powertop, there seems to be a problem with the value which is 6000 which is considered to be bad by Powertop....
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NumLock turns off after login?
Hi My NumLock is turned on during Grub2 and Login, but as soon as my password is verified it is automatically turned off.
This happens during loading of my profile on my Toshiba laptop after clean ...
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Cannot create connections through Network Manager - All fields in form are grayed out
My problem is this: I can't create a new OpenVPN (or any other type) connection using network manager in an Azure Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine. The reason is that once I click Create, all options in ...
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How to enable mouse magnet (sticky edge) in Xfce with dual monitor setup?
I know that Ubuntu / Unity supports this feature. Is there a way to have sticky edges (influencing the mouse pointer) in Xubuntu as well?
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Xubuntu XFCE 4.12 issue
After restarting Xubuntu my desktop is changed. Keyboard won't work, top bar in windows missing, no background, desktop icons missing.
I deleted .config/xfce4 and issue remained.
If I hit Ctrl Alt ...
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Can I open a file manager as root without using terminal in xubuntu
I am trying to launch file manager as root in the panel I get a error when I put sudo in front of the command exo-open --launch FileManager it returns a error. However, if I put the same command in a ...
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How to restore app switcher hotkey Alt Tab in xfce4?
I am running Xubuntu 16.04 LTS. I tried another app switcher (Skippy-XD). In order for that to work, I reassigned Alt + Tab to launch Skippy-XD instead of the default xfce4 app switcher. I did not ...
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How to restore xfce4 after "accidentally" running "sudo startxfce4"?
Today I was fiddling around with the video settings to get rid of the tearing, and at some point I wanted to restart xfce without restarting the machine.
So I ran "sudo startxfce4" and I saw something ...
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GTK themes not working on Qt5 apps
I'm running Xubuntu 16.04.1 right now (w/ XFCE4). I do a lot of Qt5 application development. Right now the applications that I'm making aren't matching the GTK theme that I have set (which is "...
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Xubuntu 16.04 LTS hibernation issue
I have set my system to hibernate when closing the lid of my laptop. It did work for a couple of times (at resume, the LightDM chooser was displayed), but now it is no longer the case: at resume, the ...
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Dual monitor setup not working on XFCE login screen
I've had this problem before where the dual monitor setup would not be kept (i.e. I had my right screen as the main screen, but after restarting, the position of my right screen would be shifted to ...
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Why does xinput not have an effect on my mouse in XFCE?
I'm trying to fine-tune my mouse acceleration settings. The XFCE "Mouse and Touchpad" dialog is confusing and seems unable to get precisely what I want. However, when I use xinput to tweak my mouse, ...
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I can't open minecraft.jar on xfce4 on acer C720 chromebook
I'm using xfce4 (Xubuntu) and I can't find the button for executing minecraft.jar as an application. I've tried using chmod, opening it with java7, and opening it with the terminal.
If I try to open ...
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does xfce4 support automatic proxy configuration?
I know it need manual set proxy in xfce4How do I set systemwide proxy servers in Xubuntu ,
but does it support url proxy like .pac url configuration? if does, how?
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Preparing an old Windows XP computer for Xubuntu and installing it [duplicate]
I have done research, and am looking to eliminate Win XP from an old computer, and want to run XFCE with libreoffice.
Main question: Do I download and create .exe file on media of XFCE or Xubuntu?
Is ...
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Xfce4 menu is not showing all applications
In my Whiskermenu pre-installed applications are not shown. After a reinstall of for example Gimp Whisker could not find it either. The xfce4-popup-applicationswindow too did not show them.
I tried ...
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Strange lines over screen in Xfce
I have installed Xfce on my PC. Everything works but a couple of transparent lines appear over all windows, as shown in the screenshot at below.
How I can remove the lines?
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Power Management in Ubuntu 16.04 not workinng
I have already read several answers for similar problem and tried them but
I am facing problems with battery power management ever since I removed Unity and installed XFCE.
I have configured the ...
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Desktop items disappear every other start
Since a few days, I am using a secondary display on my desktop computer. Ever since I attached the second display, the desktop icons (Home and trash folders as well as all drives and devices) ...
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XFCE - Blue Line Across Screen
In my Xubuntu version of Ubuntu, I've recently just been doing my thing, until this blue line popped up. Go to https://i.stack.imgur.com/FgjGw.jpg for the image. Zoom in and look to the right.
If you ...
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Error in libreoffice directory after "sudo apt-get -f install"
I'm trying to -f install and it's returning an error in the libreoffice directory, even though I don't have it installed anymore. This is the error:
yuri@Yuri-Laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
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Desktop Environment Switcher
I have installed the Xubuntu and Xfce desktop environments and then tried switching between Xubuntu, Xfce and Unity via the login screen. I have noticed that some elements (login screen, full disk ...
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indicator-kdeconnect is working, but without the indicator in Xubuntu 16.04
This is probably a repeat of KDEConnect Indicator in Ubuntu 16.04 does not show up, but I'm hoping that if I ask the question better, it's more likely someone can help answer it. I'm running Xubuntu ...
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Icons too light to see clearly in XFCE
Since I upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 I've been experiencing problems with viewing the standard icons that come with Ubuntu. The icons appear as being too light and are therefore not clearly visible. ...
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configure mouse buttons in xfce4
In Ubuntu 16.04, I use XFCE4 on a Dell Precision 5510 laptop. How to configure mouse+keyboard settings?
I want to change the Alt+middle mouse button behavior, which currently sends the clicked-on ...
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Xfce4 damaged after upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04
After upgrade, every application from Xfce4 end like this:
[ 1065.315828] ibus-x11[16879]: segfault at 0 ip 00007feec2356b3f sp 00007ffde55973e8 error 4 in libc-2.23.so[7feec22c1000+1c0000] [
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Xubuntu and Compiz XFCE
I installed Xubuntu yesterday and made some changes to my desktop, its original xfce, i installed Docky and i've read about bluring, needs Compiz, so i've installed an older version that has Blur Plug-...
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Can Grub boot multiple Ubuntu desktops - Unity, Mate, Xfce, Gnome x.xx, etc?
I started using Ubuntu at version 14.04 in 2014 with the default desktop called Unity I believe. In AskUbuntu I've seen references to other desktops such as Mate, Xfce, Gnome version x.xx. It piqued ...
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Xubuntu 16.04--Default desktop icons suddenly disappeared
I've been doing research for a couple hrs now to solve this problem and have found nothing that works.
Ex: this does not work for me: xUbuntu Default desktop Icons do not display?
Here is a ...
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No alternative keyboard layouts in XFCE
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with XFCE 4.12
When I go to Settings->Keyboard->Layout in XFCE I cannot change the keyboard model as US is the only one available.
I'm sure this was okay before I installed xfce.
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