xfce4-settings - Settings Manager
The xfce4-settings component provides a daemon, manager, and editor to centralize the configuration management of the Xfce system.
Settings
- Settings Daemon – A daemon that runs in the background to apply all the settings
- Settings Manager – Dialog that lists all the settings dialogs provided by this package (listed below) or other core modules of Xfce
Dialogs
- Accessibility – Improve keyboard and mouse accessibility
- Appearance – Customize the look of your desktop
- Color – Manage the color profiles of your devices
- Display – Configure screen settings and layout
- Keyboard – Edit keyboard settings and application shortcuts
- Mouse and Touchpad – Configure pointer device behavior and appearance
- Settings Editor – Editor that allows to modify all the various setting channels
- MIME Type Editor – Editor to modify application associations with MIME types
Other Dialogs
The following items are often visible in the settings manager, but not part of the xfce4-settings package. You can click the links below to redirect to the correct place on this website.
- Panel – Configure the Xfce Panel
- Workspaces – Set number and names of workspaces
- Window Manager – Handles the placement of windows on the screen
- Window Manager Tweaks – Specified tuning of the window manager
- Session – Applications that are started on login
- Desktop – Desktop icons and background
- Xfce Terminal – Configure Xfce Terminal
Latest Release
- xfce4-settings 4.19.3 released (2024/11/01 21:15)xfce4-settings 4.19.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.3.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.3.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.19/xfce4-settings-4.19.3.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-settings? ======================= Settings manager of the Xfce desktop. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/start Release notes for 4.19.3 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] Development Release on the master branch Changelog: - Added Keywords/Categories fields to .desktop files - display-settings: Fix InputRegion leak - x11: displays: Refactor screen_on_event() - x11: displays: Delay RRScreenChangeNotify handling - wayland: common: Properly initialize output modes - color-settings: Add missing translation - build: Adjust Wayland requirements for Xfce 4.20 - build: Bump requirements for Xfce 4.20 - xfsettingsd: Fix GVariant leak - Use a toggle button for the MIME chooser dropdown buttons - Revert "mime: Fix UMRs with GdkEvent" - mime: Fix UMRs with GdkEvent - mime: Fix string leak - display-settings: Fix XfceMode leak - mime: Fix GOptionContext leak - mouse: Fix XGetExtensionVersion leaks - mime: Fix leak in xfce_mime_window_row_activated - mime: Fix GList leak in xfce_mime_helper_chooser_pressed - mime: Fix xfce_mime_helper_category_to_string leak - mime: Fix xfce_str_replace leak - mime: Fix icon leaks - mime: Fix g_option_context_get_help leak - mime: Fix AtkRelationSet leak - build: Fix build with libxfce4ui master - xfsettingsd: pointers: Allow changing the size of device property array - display-settings: Add missing translation - Enumerate/load icon themes off of the UI thread - appearance-settings: Fix memory leak - Fix gtk-layer-shell includes - appearance-settings: Fix scrolling via arrow keys in gtk theme list - display-settings: Update primary monitor status on setting change - display-settings: Fix primary monitor status for xfce4-notifyd - display-settings: Fix primary monitor status for xfce4-panel - xfsettingsd: Fix client side decoration layout - x11: displays: Really honor /Notify is set to "Do nothing" - Revert "x11: displays: Disable new outputs if /Notify is set to "Do nothing"" - mime-settings: Override GtkDialog::response() - settings-manager: Add xfce4-about - settings-manager: Remove xscreensaver - scan-build: Fix unix.Malloc - scan-build: Fix deadcode.DeadStores - scan-build: Add false positive file - gcc-analyzer: Add false positive file - build: clang: Fix -Wimplicit-const-int-float-conversion - build: clang: Fix -Wcast-align - build: clang: Fix -Wignored-attributes - keyboard-settings: Escape markup characters in command tooltips - build: Fix build with --enable-sound-settings - wayland: appearance-settings: Hide Xft settings - mouse-settings: Fixes reverse horizontal scrolling - display-settings: Listen to output change for minimal dialog too - display-settings: Avoid weird interact between main and minimal dialogs - xfsettingsd: Use default display profile when several profiles match - Revert "Add new CI builds to build without X11 and Wayland" - Apply .clang-format file - Remove unnecessary dirname in local includes - clang-format: Use IncludeBlocks::Regroup - Apply .clang-format file - Preliminary cleanup - Bump required versions and remove dead code - Clean up and sort includes - clang-format: Add file - xfce-randr: Take RR_DoubleScan and RR_Interlace flags into account - appearance-settings: Show warnings for incomplete icon themes - build: Fix x11 detection by defining the right m4 macro Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur
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