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 4.20.1 released (2025/02/09 06:45)xfce4-settings 4.20.1 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.20/xfce4-settings-4.20.1.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.20/xfce4-settings-4.20.1.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.20/xfce4-settings-4.20.1.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 4.20.1 ======================== - Update copyright year - build: Add missing dep flags - scan-build: Fix core.uninitialized.Assign - build: Install missing helper opera-mailer.desktop - build: Make gio-unix mandatory - build: Simplify libxklavier version management - Bump xfconf min version - x11: displays: Delay RRScreenChangeNotify handling when DPMSModeOff - build: Fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized - xfsettingsd: Fix error handling in main() - xfsettingsd: Don't disable DPI setting by default - wayland: common: Add missing struct member initialization - displays: Always enable first output - Translation Updates: Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian
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