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 4.21.2 released (2026/06/21 17:55)xfce4-settings 4.21.2 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.21/xfce4-settings-4.21.2.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.21/xfce4-settings-4.21.2.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.21/xfce4-settings-4.21.2.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-settings? ======================= Settings manager of the Xfce desktop. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/start Release notes for 4.21.2 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - Use a separate channel for Wayland display profiles - build: Require libxfce4ui 4.21.8 and remove wrong define guard - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-out-of-bounds - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-null-dereference - cppcheck: Fix duplicateAssignExpression - cppcheck: Fix nullPointer - cppcheck: Fix invalidFunctionArg - cppcheck: Fix duplicateExpression - Do not translate warning messages - Replace g_error with g_critical - cppcheck: Fix nullPointerRedundantCheck - cppcheck: Fix unreadVariable - cppcheck: Fix memleak - cppcheck: Fix invalidPointerCast - cppcheck: Fix unusedStructMember - cppcheck: Fix knownConditionTrueFalse - cppcheck: Fix invalidPrintfArgType_sint - wayland: Set mode dimensions to 1x1 if width or height <= 0 - Revert "dialogs/display-settings: Fix possible arithmetic exception" - gobject_linter: Fix g_param_spec_static_strings - gobject-linter: Fix use_clear_functions - dialogs/display-settings: Fix possible arithmetic exception - gobject-linter: Fix use_g_source_once - gobject-linter: Fix use_g_new - gobject-linter: Fix g_error_leak - gobject-linter: Fix use_g_value_set_static_string - gobject-linter: Fix strcmp_explicit_comparison - gobject-linter: Fix use_explicit_default_flags - gobject-linter: Fix signal_canonical_name - gobject-linter: Fix matching_declare_define - gobject-linter: Fix missing_autoptr_cleanup - settings-editor: Search also in values when typing text in search entry - keyboard-settings: Fix typo - Add missing chain up to parent class - keyboard: hide "Use system defaults" switch on Wayland - keyboards: remove libxklavier and use libxkbcommon - keyboard-settings: Add --shortcuts option - keyboard-settings: Don't warn if shortcut == NULL - keyboard-settings: Set proper parent for shortcut dialog - keyboard-settings: Enable on Wayland and show what makes sense - dialogs: Fix wrong log domain - display-settings: Release main object early to avoid use-after-free - display-settings: Handle source memory management - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - x11: displays: Add hotplug event handling - mouse-settings: Remove dead code - wayland: display-settings: Fall back to output name when EDID is duplicated - Use xfce-output-manager-private-v1 on Wayland to get real EDID - build: Do not display full path in generated headers - gtk-settings-module: handle g_value_transform() failures - Special-case gtk-xft-hintstyle - Include an allowlist of xfconf props to sync to GtkSettings - Fix incorrect TitleCase to kebab-case in gtk-settings-module.c - xfsettingsd: add --allow-multiple CLI flag - appearance-settings: Add sound theme selection and cache flushing - x11: displays: Check by EDID that output list has not changed - wayland: displays: Add missing condition to act on new output - x11: displays: Fix memory leak - x11: display-settings: Fall back to output name when EDID is duplicated - 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, Lao, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese
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