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 4.20.2 released (2025/08/14 09:49)xfce4-settings 4.20.2 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.20/xfce4-settings-4.20.2.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.20/xfce4-settings-4.20.2.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.20/xfce4-settings-4.20.2.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 4.20.2 ======================== - display: Add/improve some debug logs - wayland: displays: Don't wl_display_roundtrip() on new output - settings-editor: Fix -Wcomma warning - common: Fix memory leak - common: Be more secure when parsing pnp.ids file - x11: display: Properly take XRRModeFlags into account - xfsettingsd: Use 2 decimals in warning about unknown mode - build: Fix resource not found at runtime - build: Automate copyright year management - build: Replace xdt-csource with glib-compile-resources - build: Define xfce4 min version >= 4.18 - display-settings: Add missing update of /ActiveProfile - 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, Georgian, 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, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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