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.
- xfdesktop wallpaper problem (2024/12/23 23:26)
- Icon position are not (re)stored on screen size change (2024/12/10 23:00)
- Sort order needed (2024/12/06 04:12)
- RightMenu/NewFile/Templates do not same as desktop (2024/12/06 00:43)
- Wallpaper not being set in Wayland with Wayfire Compositor (2024/12/05 21:03)
- Set a default background for new monitors (2024/11/27 17:08)
- Icon view does not properly support touch screens (2024/11/07 15:45)
- Desktop icons move when Xfce4-panel set/unset _NET_WM_STRUT property (2024/10/20 15:42)
- Reorder create entries into new desktop context menu submenu (2024/10/10 07:52)
- Add option to sync keyboard shortcuts with Thunar (2024/10/04 09:48)
- [feature request] sort file/launcher types separately (2024/10/04 01:56)
- File size is always shown in kB, MB, GB, etc (2024/10/03 03:13)
- Feature request: animated wallpapers and wallpaper improvements (2024/09/06 20:26)
- Switching desktop icons is no longer applied instantly (2024/06/09 14:25)
- High memory usage after couple of days uptime (2024/01/01 16:04)
- XFCE desktop background from another monitor scaled (2021/02/26 23:42)
- Improve algorithm for the number of icon label lines (2021/01/09 03:02)