Reporting Bugs - xfdesktop
If you are experiencing a bug in xfdesktop, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.
Before reporting a new bug, please try your best to check if it has already been reported (see the latest reports below). Click here for a full list of bug reports.
Report a new bug
If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.
When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.
For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.
File a new bug or enhancement request
Open Bugs
Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.
- Thumbnails sometimes do not load correctly in the settings icon view (2025/01/28 12:47)
- xfdesktop always crashing/segfaulting on trixie (2025/01/28 00:57)
- no desktop icon with filesystem inside loop device with xfdesktop-4.20.0 (2025/01/26 18:55)
- Desktop icon for Android phone no longer shows up in 4.20 (2025/01/26 14:30)
- Desktop Icon's Text does not display upon signing in. (2025/01/25 22:28)
- Default background always displayed with xf86-video-fbdev driver (2025/01/14 05:50)
- Copying file to clipboard is inconsistent with thunar (2025/01/13 15:44)
- Wallpaper xfce-light.svg has white line at left and upper border (2025/01/10 12:11)
- Black desktop on startup/during initial load (2025/01/09 00:22)
- Only a section of the screen can be used (2025/01/06 11:09)
- icons on the wrong display (2025/01/06 10:05)
- Graphic error on one of 2 screens (2025/01/04 11:59)
- Wallpaper not being set in Wayland with Wayfire Compositor (2025/01/03 01:05)
- Sort order needed (2024/12/06 04:12)
- RightMenu/NewFile/Templates do not same as desktop (2024/12/06 00:43)