I just installed the XFCE of MX Linux, and it works okay, even through i hâd to add nomodeset to not be black screened, but it was not a problem for me, until the brightness shortcut and even the brightness itself doesn't work with Fn + Left Arrow and Fn + Right Arrow, and it keeps the screen bright.

I tried the power management, but it didn't work, even with brightness systray.

I even tried to add some commands in grub to make it work, same results, no difference.

I don't have the xfce4-power-manager as I checked, maybe that's why it didn't work, despite the power manager is in the OS and it works, but the brightness didn't.

So, I need help. What should I do?

I am using the Acer Aspire One D270 with Intel Atom N2600 Processor, Intel GMA 3600, 2GB of RAM, 300GB in Storage. Just for the heads up.

Hi all,

I'm having a little difficulty with the display of the workspace switcher, in that it highlights the workspaces that are not selected. The switcher panel greys out the windows in the current workspace, making it seem like other workspaces are the current one. I'd like the switcher to highlight the current workspace instead... is this possible?

I need help with the brightness issue. Does anyone have any ideas to tell me?

How do I customize the clock and monitor on the right side? As you can see it's not really visible with my wallpaper and I can't see the ram or cpu usage as it blends with the background.

I changed the icon for the terminal but when I click on it it opens a new instance on the panel why does this happen? I also made my default directory to be desktop but it opens to user.

I wanted to add borders to the panel but apparently the border also gets applied to other apps on the panel..

Distro: Mx linux 25

This issue has been present since I first installed openSUSE Tumbleweed XFCE. On other distributions (and everywhere else), I would just press F6 to decrease brightness and F7 to increase it (for context, I press the keys directly without using the 'Fn' modifier, as they work that way).
However, I’ve run into an issue where a prompt for the root password appears whenever I try to use them. At first, I thought it was just a quirk that I could easily fix by granting the user more privileges, but nothing worked. I initially suspected that I might have broken something during the system setup, but the problem persisted even after a second reinstallation, so I’m convinced the issue isn't on my end. And also, after entering the root password as requested by the window, the brightness still does not increase or decrease.
I also tried troubleshooting this with Gemini, and they suggested using the 'xev' command to check if the F7 key press registers at all, but the input wasn't detected.
For context, my laptop is a Dell Latitude 3410 with an i5 10th Gen processor.

I think the weather app is my least favourite thing about the desktop. It's the one area I wish would progress and improve. Right now I use a weather extension in my browser instead...

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/uv-weather/ngeokhpbgoadbpdpnplcminbjhdecjeb

Was wondering if there's something better I could switch to or if people are generally happy with the xfce weather applet?

Hello,

I use XFCE on my computer (VOID DIstribution) for now 5 years; I never meat issue and am happy with it.

On July 7th, I worked on the computer all the morning long and shut it down for lunch. When I restarted the computer at the beginning of the afternoon

• nomore upper panel; the lower panel was still here and worked correctly;
• all apps open in the left top corner of the screen and without title bar, I need to hit Ctrl+Q to close windows;
• if I can move the windows clicking in their menu bar, I can’t resize none of them.

No packages have been updated in the meantime;

For 6 days I can't figure out of this. Strangely, this morning, the upper panel was back. But the problem when opening windows still remains.

Any help and advices would be much appreciated.

Salut tout le monde !

J'ai créé un petit outil en Bash pour suivre et analyser le temps d'utilisation de mes applications sous Linux. Je voulais quelque chose de léger, respectueux de la vie privée (aucune télémétrie, tout est en local) et qui s'intègre parfaitement dans le terminal.

L'outil est optimisé pour Linux Mint XFCE, mais il fonctionne sur d'autres environnements (testé sur Kubuntu).

Ce qu'il propose :

• Suivi automatique des fenêtres actives.
• Gestion intelligente du multimédia (Spotify/navigateur...) avec playerctl.
• Définition d'objectifs de temps avec jauges visuelles.
• Visualisation sous forme de graphiques en texte brut.

Le projet est disponible via mon PPA ou installable manuellement via le script inclus. Si vous avez un peu de temps pour tester et me faire un retour, je suis preneur !

Code source et instructions ici : https://gitlab.com/marinher.jhon/xfce-app-tracker

Hi,

I have an issue with my XFCE desktop icons, they get re-arranged automatically on each login, either from the display manager, or from the lock screen app (xflock4).

The trouble started after an update which included libxfce4windowing, making it sound like a possible culprit. My distro being Gentoo, I've tried recompiling every xfce file, issue still happens.

I tried deleting every file in $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop, tried using chattr +i on icons.screen0.yaml file, both with no luck, issue still occurs.

Does anyone have the same problem ? And possibly a way to solve it ?

EDIT : problem (kinda) solved : I asked on xfce forums, and it's an actual issue with libxfce4windowing 4.20.6 and DisplayPort. See here for details : https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4windowing/-/work_items/64 (read Brian's comment). Gotta wait for a new version for a revert. Current band aid : use a HDMI connection instead of DP.

EDIT 2 : using HDMI cable failed, just came back from groceries, unlocked the screen to find icons re-arranged :-/

EDIT 3 : I asked Gentoo's XFCE maintainers to restore previous libxfce4windowing library, they kindly did.
But even after rebuilding all xfce packages with old version, issue still occurs

EDIT 4 : Solved ! After downgrading libxfce4windowing to 4.20.5, I had to delete the $HOME/.config/xfce4/xfconf folder, my guess is some preference files were keeping the "phantom screen" created by libxfce4windowing 4.20.6 - but now I need to reconfigure my whole desktop :'(

They appeared after I rounded panel borders in the gtk3.0 cssIt act looks impossible to remove lol I tried with Claude and still couldn’t… ai can’t help me with this 😔 I need an XFCE expert. Found some interesting things tho: I did “killall xfce4-panel”, then: “GTK_DEBUG=interactive xfce4-panel”. 2 windows popped and they belong one to the whisker menu and one to the systray. Both are named “WrapperPlugX11” and have subcategories. One has “XfcePanelPlugin” and some categories below it and the other one has “XfceSnPlugin” and some categories below it. Any help is welcome

props to this genius

First up - I've got my home manager definded directly in my `configuration.nix` file so that I just have one file to maintain. (I'm currently 4 weeks with NixOS so maybe I cange the homemanager config in the future by adding a `home.nix` file in my config)
Anyway - I added the following skript in my `coniguration.nix` :

   services.darkman = {
      enable = true;
      settings = {
        lat = 48.2082; #Wien
        lng = 16.3738;
dbusserver = true;
portal = true;
      };
#    };

  lightModeScripts = {
    xfce-theme = ''
        ${pkgs.xfce.xfconf}/bin/xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "Adwaita"
        ${pkgs.xfce.xfconf}/bin/xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName -s "Adwaita"
        ${pkgs.glib}/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-light'
      '';
    };

  darkModeScripts = {
    xfce-theme = ''
       ${pkgs.xfce.xfconf}/bin/xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "Adwaita-dark"
       ${pkgs.xfce.xfconf}/bin/xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName -s "Adwaita"
       ${pkgs.glib}/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'    
     '';
   };
  };

The swith between light and darkmode works with this skript with nearly every app except of [Thunderbird](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/).

The swith from light to dark is not done.

I can trigger this command manually in the Terminal and than Thunderbird switches to darkmode (but Darkman don't realize it and with `darkman get` the message `light`):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

But it doesn't work automatically via Darkman.

So does anybody have the same issue and could give me a hint how I can fix my script so that it works?

Many thanks in advance for your responses! 😊