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Thunar - Advanced Settings - [Hidden Settings List]

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:47:25 +0000

Thunar - Advanced Settings Most Thunar settings can be configured within Thunar from the menu by selecting . This will display the Preferences dialog window. Some of Thunar's settings are not visible in this interface because they are considered not general enough for the average user.

Building Xfce from source - grammar improvement

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:05:05 +0000

Building Xfce from source To compile a complete Xfce desktop from source requires some information about the dependency chain and the various configure options available in each module. This page will describe this in detail, so you can compile your own Xfce desktop; both system wide as well as in your $HOME directory.

Xfce 4.20 Documentation - shorten description

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:51:19 +0000

Xfce 4.20 Documentation This website provides user documentation for the latest stable version of the Xfce desktop environment. Go to Xfce 4.18 for the previous version. Wayland support component status and testing * * * ---------- Getting Started * Getting Started with Xfce -- Starting point for anyone who wants to use Xfce

xfce4-terminal - Advanced Topics - fix lists

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:47:04 +0000

xfce4-terminal - Advanced Topics Files and Environment Variables Terminal uses the Basedir Specification as defined on Freedesktop.org to locate its data and configuration files. This means that file locations will be specified as a path relative to the directories described in the specification.

xfce4-terminal - Advanced Topics - fix lists

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:45:55 +0000

xfce4-terminal - Advanced Topics - Fix lists

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:43:22 +0000

Translation - Update links: https://gitlab.xfce.org/www/wiki.xfce.org/-/issues/45

gael@undisclosed.example.com (gael) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:45:30 +0000

Translation Xfce uses the Transifex translation platform as a portal for translators. This allows translators to translate on-line, submit new po-files, watch translations and view statistics. All translation updates are directly submitted in the Xfce GIT repositories, so they are directly available for the rest of the world.

Formatting Syntax - Remove definition lists (plugin no longer supported)

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:39:31 +0000

Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing the

xfce4-terminal - Advanced Topics - Fix list

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:36:09 +0000

Reporting Bugs - Xfce & Wiki Documentation - reduce bug refresh time to 3 hours

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:47:50 +0000

Reporting Bugs - Xfce & Wiki Documentation If you happen to find a bug, typo, dead link in the Xfce Documentation or the Xfce Wiki, 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.

Thunar - Working with Files and Folders - [The View Menu]

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:44:35 +0000

Thunar - Working with Files and Folders * * * * * * * * ---------- Opening Files When opening a file, either via the main menu, via the file's context menu, by double-clicking on it or by hitting the enter key, the file manager performs the default action for that file type. For example, opening a text file will display it in the default text editor, while opening an image file will display the image in the default image viewer.

Reporting Bugs - xfwl4 - created

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:44:57 +0000

Reporting Bugs - xfwl4 Xfwl4 is currently an experimental work in progress Xfwl4 FAQ ---------- Open Bugs Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis. Back To Top ---------- Return to xfwl4 Main Documentation Page Return to Xfce Main Documentation Page

xfwl4 - Xfce Wayland Compositor - created

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:42:51 +0000

xfwl4 - Xfce Wayland Compositor Xfwl4 is currently an experimental work in progress Xfwl4 FAQ * * * * xfwl4 is the Wayland Compositor for Xfce ---------- General * Introduction -- General information about xfwl4 * Getting Started -- Handling windows and workspaces with

How to contribute to Xfce - Add links to transaction records. Bold Highlight donation statement

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:31:13 +0000

How to contribute to Xfce Xfce is developed by a small group of hard-working volunteers. There are many ways in which you can contribute to Xfce, all of which are most welcome! For a more in-depth look at how to contribute to Xfce, it is recommended to read

- remove page (unsupported js scripts)

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:27:16 +0000

Thunar - thunar-shares-plugin - Modern Samba (4. ...

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:15:12 +0000

Thunar - thunar-shares-plugin * * * * * * ---------- Introduction The Thunar Shares Plugin (thunar-shares-plugin) allows you to quickly share a folder using Samba from Thunar (the Xfce file manager) without requiring root access.

- [Thunar - Hierarchy of Thunar views]

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:43:28 +0000

xfce4-datetime-plugin DateTime - add note indicating plugin is EOL

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:02:35 +0000

xfce4-datetime-plugin DateTime xfce4-datetime-plugin shows the date and time in the panel; when left-clicked, a popup calendar appears. End-of-Life(EOL)Clock * * * * * ---------- The original plugin was written by Choe Hwanjin. Remco den Breeje wrote the 0.4.x and 0.5.0 versions. Diego Ongaro was the maintainer from 2008 to 2010.

Freedesktop.org Notifications specification - add friendly link text back in

kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:50:56 +0000

Freedesktop.org Notifications specification For the most part, xfce4-notifyd is compliant with the freedesktop.org's notifications specification. However, there are also some features which are not currently supported (e.g. sound). Another example is “urgency”, which is only implicitly supported by checking the expire-timeout.

Thunar - Custom Actions - [Create Shared Thumbnails]

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:16:39 +0000

Thunar - Custom Actions Thunar allows users to add custom actions to the file and folder context menus (by the use of the thunar-uca plugin, part of the Thunar distribution, in the plugins/ subdirectory). You can set up new actions in the dialog, available via the

sharedx.sh.tar.gz - created

alexxcons@undisclosed.example.com (alexxcons) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:12:48 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:40:31 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:50:06 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:08:53 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:04:18 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:30:26 +0000

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kevinbowen@undisclosed.example.com (kevinbowen) — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:15:33 +0000