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Preferences

You can start the Desktop settings dialog by clicking on the Desktop button in the Settings Manager.

Background

Background Tab

Menus Tab

Desktop Menu

If you check the “Show applications menu on desktop right click”, the applications menu will be shown when right clicking on the desktop.

The “Show application icons in menu” allows you to show or hide icons in the menu.

Window List Menu

If you check the “Show window list menu on desktop middle click” option, the window list menu will be shown when middle clicking on the desktop.

The “Show application icons in menu” option allows you to show or hide icons in the menu. This option is only available when “Show window list menu on desktop middle click” is checked.

The “Show workspace names in list” option allows you to show or hide workspace names in the list. If checked, windows are shown under the name of their workspace. Else, they are all shown in the same portion of the menu. This option is only available when “Show window list menu on desktop middle click” is checked.

The “Show submenus for the windows in each workspace” option allows you to have the windows displayed in a submenu titled with the workspace name. This option is only available when “Show workspace names in list” is checked.

The “Show sticky windows only in active workspace” option allows you to have sticky windows displayed only in the active workspace, instead of displaying their item in all workspaces.

Icons

Icons Tab

Appearance

The “Icon type” dropping list allows you to set the behavior of the desktop icons. There are three options: “None”, to disable desktop icons entirely; “Minimized” application icons, to show icons for minimized or hidden applications on the desktop; and “File/launcher” icons, to show the contents of your $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR directory on the desktop.

If desktop icons are enabled, you can control the size of the icon itself (in pixels) with the “Icon size” option, and the font size used to display the icon text (in points) with the “Use custom font size” option. If you do not check this last option, the system defaults will be used.

Default Icons

The checkboxes allow you to show or hide special icons on the desktop, when xfdesktop is set to draw icons. Double clicking those icons will open a Thunar window displaying the contents of a particular path.

Home stands for your home folder, that is to say, $HOME. Filesystem stands for the root of your file system, also known as /. Trash stands for your trash folder, and Removable devices represents floppy drives, USB drives and keys, external hard drives, optical discs, etc.